Poem: Love, Loyalty and Control

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Long ago in those days
filial piety 
dictated what you thought
how you acted
who you loved
honor to the family
put your heart in a box

Age conferred wisdom
and youth was always folly
"Hardship builds character" 
or so the saying goes 
but it's just an excuse 
for the elders to tell you 
that you should suffer 
just like they did.

Even now
and in some ways 
that mindset 
never really left.
All from a good place
a desire to see you do well
but the bottom line
is about control.

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