rebuilding
shoving bricks back into place
renewing these barriers
that i so foolishly let down
i allowed them to fall
feeling that i needed this fortress no more
so, so silly of me
thanks for reinforcing their necessity
up these walls go.
and say i've changed as much as you like
but it's not that i've changed
it's that you never knew me all that well before.
and everyone wonders at this newly formed tension
between a pair who was once so seemingly close.

close we are no more
i wipe my hands of you and your needs
you and your desire to interfere with my life, my choices, who you want me to be.
i conform to your expectations no more.
i'm free.