Persephone Speaks: Waning Moon 3

I’m not you, mama. 

I don’t know what I want. 

I want some destiny to rise up and grab me! 

Who knows, maybe I’m not even like you. 

I just know I have to get away from here

to be my own person. 

I can’t even promise I’ll come back; 

I need my freedom!  

I can’t have any ties, any demands on me right now! 

Why can’t you understand that?

You’re a co-dependent! 

Your heart-strings and apron-strings

are all tangled up in the problems of the world. 

I want to cut loose, and learn to know myself,

explore my own depths.

© Tamara Rasmussen 2018