Programmed

I won't read the words from the script you wrote me,

I won't walk the path straight and narrow, as you taught me.

I won't speak your truth as if it ought to be my own,

I won't see this world through you eyes, grey and cold.

I won't carry your burden which you have been unable to shift, 

and in not fulfilling the tasks you set, I won't accept your guilt.

The colours I see light up a path that's bright and pure and loving,

where at the end I reach myself and know I am becoming.

I dance and skip and twirl and sing

as the spirits come fluttering by,

they welcome me and my weightless soul

as I beam to the radiant sky.

If you let yourself, 

I'll take your hand, 

and you'll see your own way to go.

Your path is different, 

but equal in beauty, 

if only you could know. 

That you needn't carry the weight which hunches your shoulders and clicks your toes.

With balance you'll find,

an understanding of self

and to the world 

your true self 

will show. 

Reviews

[Chris Shaw]

Your lines speak to me of someone determined to map out her own future without being influenced by another. All of us have our own unique footprint and we can't walk the same path as someone else. Sad it would be if we were all clones. Stay individual I say. You will be loved for being you. Good message here and I like the determination conveyed in these free verse lines LauraKate.

Chris

[Laura Kate]

I'm not sure how I missed your review, Chris. Thank you!
Laura.

[Chris Shaw]

No worries. I have done it myself on more than one occasion Laura.

Chris

[jacob erin-cilberto]

reminds me a bit of my mom...she seemed to think i wanted to grow up exactly like my dad...
and want they same things that they did...but i had my own course, always...and it was a different road..took many years until that was accepted and embraced.
nice one here, i related so easily in my own terms.
j.

[Laura Kate]

I somehow missed the reviews to this one Jacob, thank you.
Laura.