Rent II

I long to leave our mother
for the gentler embrace
that's still inclined to smother
but not keep me in my place,
providing like no other
the enigma known as - Space,
whose understanding, starry eyes
are distant, but immensely wise.

It's a painful separation
but I feel it must be done,
with much determination
she'll cling and tears will run,
complete emancipation
isn't nonchalantly won
and though my homeward path be lost
I'll find a way to pay the cost.