You Can’t Hold Me Prisoner To Love

You Can’t Hold Me Prisoner To Love

wYou cannot hold me prisoner to love

And call the chains devotion

You cannot lock every door around me

Then speak of endless emotion

Love was never built from ownership

Never designed to confine

It should not demand surrender

Just to prove somebody is mine

You called control protection

You called distance loyalty

You placed your fear inside my pockets

And expected gratitude endlessly

I bent myself to fit your silence

Cut away pieces to remain

Changed my voice and softened my edges

Only to carry your pain

Then one morning I stood and noticed

I had become somebody else

A version made from careful footsteps

Living nowhere except your shelf

So I opened windows one by one

Let air move through my chest

Watched your rules become smaller

Watched my own heart protest less

You reached for me with old promises

Spoke of memories and what we were

Yet freedom sounded stronger than longing

And my thoughts became clearer

You cannot hold me prisoner to love

If love arrives with a key

Because anything that cages a person

Was never meant for me

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