I Spoke To Trees: 23~I Have Stifled

 

23: I Have Stifled

I have stifled 

I have sacrificed limbs

Pruned 

Every appendage

Every spell 

&

Square inch

To try 

To bend

Twist

Contort

Into Shapes

That weren’t my own

Until 

I let it go

Until 

I let it go under

Those boxes

Those checklists

Never 

Belonged

To me

Didn’t 

Belong 

To me

Would never 

Conform 

To hit me

Acutely

Accurately 

So I let them 

Go

They 

Weren’t going

Where I 

Was going.