Prompt #1 || Take Off the Collar || Blog Post #2

Prompt #1 : Come up with a poem about an object/thing that describes you or another/made up person. (Use analogies, similes, metaphors, etc.)


Take off the collar - By Kendall Fry

I resemble a sad puppy.

I am told what to do, when to do it, and maybe I can have what I want.

I feel the weight of the collar on my shoulders.

I don't want to be controlled.

He holds me by a leash more than once a day.

Pulling me by my neck until I feel like I can't breath.

They resemble a noose.

The collar is feeling heavier now.

I can no longer keep my head up high.

I have disowned myself.

I see my kind frolicking around in freedom.

A vast meadow of opportunities.

They give me the strength to finally look up at him.

I need to take off my collar.

Take off my collar and get lost.

So lost that he will never find a trace of me ever again.

I'm not his bitch anymore.

I can stand on my own two feet now.

When I took off the collar, I was no longer his property.

I am free to discover any meadow I want.

I'm allowed to run.

We, as women, should not resemble a defenseless animal

We do not stay.

We do not sit.

And we definitely do not roll over.

We are our own property.