Flying Free

This was written after I broke up with my college boyfriend of four and a half years, right after I came to teach in South Korea.  It's a poem, which is a little different for me.

I hope you enjoy it.

In one breath you spoke words of praise, in the next you spoke of my faults,

You doubted me and my choices, never truly believing me,

I told you to just wait and see, but you never believed in me,

Finally I emerged from that cocoon we call college,

I was ready, my mind was open, my body strong,

But you had changed, or maybe I never truly knew you,

You wanted me to go to you and the gilded cage you've trapped yourself in,

You never did believe I would fly free, you thought I would sink down roots,

But I did it; I did what I said I would, what I've always dreamed of,

I flew free and far,

Stretching my wings,

Daring to dream,

You couldn't accept it,

You gave up on me,

So I gave up on you

And now,

Finally,

I'm free.