Just the Way you are

Just the Way you are

That branch

The one protruding

beyond the symmetrical 

sphere

It  needs trimming

Says who?

Who is this voice?

What is this urgency?

How can perfection need 

perfecting?

See the bravery,

the courage instead

it took the rogue branch to

grow beyond boundaries.

unruly,

caring not

to remain

with the other branches.

Who am I to think

it needs correcting?

It wants no part of this

topiary.

Escape conformity.

Reach for the sun,

feel the breezes

Provide a perch.

Rebel.

Assert yourself.

See where it might take you.

Thank you 

harmless wild thing

for bringing awareness

round controlling urges

not born in me,

but learned by me,

taught to me.

Let them go,

unlearn them,

see the folly,

the pointlessness

of it all...

and breathe.