don't look back

She wanted to leave but she loved him He just wanted their life as it was now, to continue She wanted to experience the world and had never expected Anyone to tunnel into her heart She didn’t like it A feminist would say choose career over men Choose life over servitude Love is a prison And she knew they were right. Because if she stayed she would resent him And eventually then leave without him Unless the unthinkable happened And he got her pregnant That would be worse than anything She would be societally bound to be “happy” then Its illegal to not want a child once it graduates to a fetus She had seen it happen before The late night confessionary posts on social media “I want everyone to know that being a mother And a working mother Is STRESSFUL. My hair is falling out. But its uh… worth it?” That was how those posts went. So she left. And she was too afraid to look back But hoped that he was following.

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