Don’t snuff out your own bright lights
Bad enough that others will try to do that for you
Assemble your efforts to reach ever higher
Ascend those jagged rocks to pinnacled peaks
Find your own beauty and grandeur
Finesse your own sweet way in the world
Leave stifling to old reruns
Shame on anyone who would seek to undo
your sense of purpose, your sense of self.

Leave them, and go.

Daily Prompt: Stifle

Just because
you were the dominant
force in my life
that didn’t give you the power
to dominate
to tower over
to crush
hurt
mangle
or destroy.

Try again, please.

Daily Prompt: Dominant