If you're reading this, I mean it. And I meant it when I said that it was our last conversation. So please move on.

"Recluse" (#21)
I'm so sick of people
disturbing my seclusion.
Time to say farewell
to their intrusion.
I'd much prefer
to be always alone
than to be obliged to defer
to their hearts of stone.

So I'm locking myself away
and becoming a recluse.
These four walls won't betray -
I'm safe from their abuse.

Why live in constant fear
of others' cruelty?
Forever remaining here,
I need approval from only me.
I should be allowed to live
or die as I see fit.
Not to only be free if
those people permit.

So don't insult my conviction
by saying I won't flee.
Because friendship is an affliction
I'm happy to remedy.
I won't be afraid again
of being all alone.
Because I alone will remain -
better than you'll have ever known.

So I'm locking myself away
and becoming a recluse.
For the reasons you want me to stay
I no longer have any use.

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