Not Via Me

I need to retrain myself - that old expression of 

letting things bide suggests bigger messes yet 

that wont be easy to progress beyond - back a 

ways it was the done thing, meaning you went 

with the flow and learned to adapt - somehow; 

but there’s a growing air of anarchism now - & 

mind-changing mood, suggesting none hence 

has the right to impose upon and govern you 

Unless it is your idea first place; so - hey, you 

confess ownership expressed with patronage 

representing the right to be left on your own - 

now set it up there on th’ pedestal you say, I’ll 

be here, making a play for space to be me in, 

y’all can be whoever y’ want - but not via me 

© 14 May 2016, I. D. Carswell