Credits: Cindy Tang

Leaving Home

Setting off a chain reaction,
My soul pulled in three directions.
In one, the girl I loved was calling.
Telling me to be with her, to never ever leave her lonely.

The second wasn't clear to me,
Though later on, it pulled me stronger.
My family! They wanted me, to leave when my dad smelled the weed.
But later on my soul began to burn for them, and them for me.

In the end, it's the third that pulled on me the most.
I never knew at 21, that I would need rebirth.
Crawling out myself and being forced to face the World.
This all catalyzed, the year that I left home.

by: Jarryon Paul