If you are someone who loved me before,
the door is closed if you hold a yoke around my neck. 
If you truly care then let me go.
See me fly and see the world.
Loving me means setting me free.
I need to take care of me.
But how can I do that
if you set demands on me?
How can I be employed
If my labors bring me no true joy?
Your goal is for me to serve You.
Making me fail fulfills your dreams.
I need to make friends that fit me,
Give me self worth and love
And accept me.
I can’t be the person you want me to be.
Is it love if you control
Who I am, what I do,where I go?
Is it love if you won’t see the fantastic courageous lady I am?
I’m not the little girl you bullied and berated.
The child left home  and I’m now a woman.

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