You have spent a lifetime... <br />Trying to prevent my progress. <br />And the only thing you have displayed, <br />Is a willfulness to degrade yourself. <br /> <br />I have never sought your approval, <br />To be who I am. <br />I have always known me! <br />You, on the other hand... <br />Have been standing on my path for so long! <br />You couldn't know who you are, <br />If you have been preventing me from my journey! <br />Who are you? <br /> <br />I wouldn't stop to contemplate that now, <br />Or you would be totally left in darkness! <br />Were you afraid I would leave you behind? <br />And that is why, <br />All your time has been mine?<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/were-you-afraid-i-would-leave-you-behind/
