Why does she hold you back like that

Isn’t she your best friend

Praying on your downfall

Trying to out grow

Out do

Out shine you

Out out out you

He was held back so long he’d forgotten what he wanted and what was real

Could he even still feel?

That resilience

Had eroded

Slowly

What could he achieve

without the starving ocean

taking with each leave.

And lapping at his shores,

He deserved better, he deserves more

With heavy heart

And choked emotion

He shook his head

and shut that door wide open.