It’s healthy and right to break the ties of the past.
Yet it seems like the ropes will never be cut.
It feels impossible to unbind the tethers holding me down.

Run away from the voices of those around me,
the voices telling me to stop trying to break free.

The ways of those around me are contrary to how my psyche tells me move.
I need encouragement to stop listening to the voices inside,
telling me I will always be a prisoner to ropes of conformity.