mother, don't cry { draft 1.0 }

[vernalinfernal]

mother, don't cry
i'm gone from your grasp
i've fled the nest for the first and last time
there's nothing you can do about it
and weeping
certainly won't bring me back

mother, don't cry
i am not a prisoner
but rather a privileged guest
to a whole new world
he took my hand and opened my eyes
and weeping
certainly won't close them again

mother, don't cry
i haven't lost my light
i just glow in a different
spectrum of colors now
blues, purples, the blackest of blacks
and weeping
certainly won't banish my darkness

mother, don't cry
i have not become his
just as i was never yours
i own myself
i am vernal and infernal in equal amounts
and weeping
certainly won't make me pure

mother, don't cry
those pomegranate seeds were
delicious
and i don't regret a thing