She takes one step
Experiencing for the first time in years,
the true sensation of what it feels like
to be utterly free
For many years she pleaded
Screaming for him to have remorse
Or guilt in any sense of the word.

No matter how much she despised him
Like Seligman's theory
of Learned Helplessness
Her many attempts to leave were smashed
By the alarmingly clear
Sense of isolation
and it paralyzed her

The same paralysis that led her to stay
Pulls her back as she prepares to leave

What would her life be like
Outside of this space she had known forever?
Did she have the will
The strength, the guts
Or would she stay in a state
of Paralysis?

She had lived in a state of fear
Long enough to forget
What it was like to be free.

She paused at the door,
contemplating the life she had lived
The fear she had experienced
And the dreams she suppressed

For once, she stepped into her fear
Embracing the future
of what she was going to do
Diving beneath the waves
To push through this invisible source
Instead of being crushed below them