Impossible

Baby steps trained to avoid danger
and “No” is a word
often heard.

Barriers
Fences
Doors
Gates
All protect
but also Dissect
and Limit.

Growing up,
some challenge this
Safety
but others remain closeted in its reassuring hug

I have stayed too long
Inside.

Believing myself limited,
I was.

Now old and finally wise
I break from the hug
Shrug off the warnings
And am free
To be me.