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Control

Is Not Love

By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual WarriorPublished 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago 1 min read

You want me to stay and not leave

Not because you love and want me

But because you want to control me

You want to own my thoughts,

My feelings and

My movements

My freedom of choice

You cannot have them.

They are not yours

It is my choice if I want to

Share and give them to you

And I do not.

They are mine.

Control is not Love

Good-bye

- Julie O'Hara 2023

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Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior

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