Another Response From Linda

breaking free of socks
chickens wearing socks
quickly lose them,
as they run to be rid of
constraint;

just as i quickly
lost you when you tried
restraining me

found instead a white
butterfly and a rainbow—

a promise of something
better than the
dystopia of yours that you
meant for me to inherit,

you thought you could wretch
into me all your darkness
and you’d shatter my light;

but i rose from the darkness
with every flaming feather—

so in the end you could say
that your socks were barely
any obstacle to my freedom,
they were every bit as weak
as that love you claimed for me.
–linda m. crate

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She is absolutely killing the challenge! How are you doing with the prompts?