Free

We’ve been together for so long it’s hard to let go. But the time has come for me to go on my own I know. Anxiety is overcoming me our mutual agreed separation. The feelings of being alone have an atrocious reputation. But I take a leap of faith let go of the hand I’ve held so long. Mixed feelings start flooding over me which are neither right nor wrong, Out on my own feels like flying or even floating in the air, It feels euphoric but never wanting to forget you I look back and stare. With a new life ahead of me I twist and turn in all directions. I leave where I land in life to fate, so in flight I make no corrections. The memories and time we spent together now races thru my mind. I’m fleeing from you so fast now it feels as if I’m flying blind. I begin to wonder if you’ll miss me as much as I’ll miss you, I go back and forth with this thought and discontent begins to brew. Did we make the right decision I wonder, then I remember your last words, It’ll be hard at first, but then you’ll feel as free spirited as the soaring birds. So adventure awaits me with a new beginning, and I do start to feel free. Then my landing jolts my memory I’m hit with an awful reality, I’m neither living nor free; I’m just a leaf who fell from its tree.