{"sf1_id":1082807,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Never Let Me Go","author":"tigerwriter93","words":211,"posted_at":"2016-10-04T02:34:00.000Z","tags":["Frustration","Mother","Poem","Poetry","Relationships","Rhyme","Son","boyfriend","free verse","freedom","stress"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1082807-never-let-me-go","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/1082807","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=1082807\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"Nowhere to run -\n\nNowhere to hide -\n\nOut only to have a little fun,\u0026nbsp;\n\nThen it's back to the grind.\n\n  \n\nYou can't keep me around forever\n\n  \n\nThe burden that is you weighs a ton -\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt's a miracle my back is still intact\u0026nbsp;\n\nFrom caring for you - Remind me, am I your son\u0026nbsp;\n\nOr your husband? Is the \"crippled mother\" just an act?\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n\nYou can't keep me around forever\n\n  \n\nCan't do this -\n\nCan't do that -\n\nA new chapter of my life starts and you hiss\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnger is your soul - it's how you always react.\n\n  \n\nI can't stay here forever\n\n  \n\nFor the first time, I found love -\u0026nbsp;\n\nI hope our souls intertwine -\n\nI hope Peace descends like a dove\u0026nbsp;\n\nUpon this house - you and I are in a bind.\n\n  \n\nI won't stay single forever\n\n  \n\nConsistently a disappointment, you have a list\u0026nbsp;\n\nOf every mistake I've made that makes you upset -\n\nYour only child might as well not exist,\n\nOr at least be a memorable vignette.\n\n  \n\nYou shouldn't hate yourself forever\n\n  \n\nAll I ask is to be let go\u0026nbsp;\n\nBefore winter comes\u0026nbsp;\n\nAnd I'm buried with snow,\u0026nbsp;\n\nLeaving you in the doldrums -\n\nSons won't last forever,\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n\nBut they must be on their own\n  \n  \n\n"}