Independence

I was dependent for a time Perhaps too long for the need to get unused to An old for the new left behind What I know now to have wished I knew I was trying to be dependent Trying to rely on everyone and everything And only to become independent Because there is no one and there is nothing And it wasn’t a short road to have walked Am I lucky enough to realise how long I was stuck? A kind of life living for whence life caught To only become so hard for humanities to accept my part As naturally as I flow and lived I am who I become independently There are no more needs for belief To finally believe who I am... individually I was dependent for a time Long perhaps yet perhaps a need to The old for anew to find What I know now... I no longer need be real ............................