NaPoWriMo 12/30 - The Thing I Should Have Said Yes to + Day 13 Prompt!

The Thing I Should Have Said Yes to

You’ll want me to say

it was when you said

come on – let’s get married

tomorrow

we’ll go to City Hall

we can move to Maine

and live in the woods

and have two little kids

That was a good solid no.

I didn’t want to live in the woods

birth two little kids while

you were painting my future

into a corner

Surely this would’ve ended

with my head in an oven.

You hated kids

anyway. I wasn’t leaving

NYC. Not yet, not then.

Maybe it was the time

the incredibly arrogant white man said

DON’T YOU WANT TO WORK FOR 

THE BEST COMPANY IN THE WORLD?

Well, yeah, but not as a serf

prevented from even thinking about 

advancement 

and also working for a

complete NARCISSIST.

It wasn’t the best company 

in the world. It was alright.

That was a good no.

A lot of these types of things

don’t require yesses. They

declaim and expect acquiescence

but no.

No.

Often

what is required

is for you to ask the question

of yourself

ask it for them

let them off the hook

give them a way to wrangle out

or feel as though they were coerced

I’m not so good with that, either.

Those are noes.  It's possible

I could have used more of them.

In hindsight

there is perhaps

nothing I should have said yes to

that I didn’t.

Except maybe

that little click

in the gut

told me

this time do the wrong thing

do the wrong thing right

trust me.

12/30

NaPoWriMo

2014

 DAY 13 PROMPT:  The War of Where Things Go