I don't know about you,

but when relationships change,

there's no use in hanging on --

and I'm talking about

someone clinging to me.

Do not like people draped

over my shoulders, as it were,

wanting friendships to remain

static,

rooted in musty past.

After all, no one owns us,

do they?

It's like we want to leave town,

go to places new,

and someone wants to stay,

keep things the same old way.

As some friends of Samuel Johnson

once came to him and said,

"Sir, we have a claim on you."

Whereupon the great man replied,

"You MAY think that."

And he went right on

doing what he wanted to,

paying no heed to their

attempts to hold him back.

There's nothing like being

together, yet being free.

(My husband and I have this,

and it's the way to be.)

All progressive relationships do.

So, let's hear it for independence!