diff --git a/packages/processor/plugins/composition.js b/packages/processor/plugins/composition.js
index d7b7c8c09..44683c94b 100644
--- a/packages/processor/plugins/composition.js
+++ b/packages/processor/plugins/composition.js
@@ -11,22 +11,6 @@ const parser = require("../parsers/composes.js");
 
 const plugin = "modular-css-composition";
 
-// Loop through all previous nodes in the container to ensure
-// that composes (or a comment) comes first
-const composesFirst = (decl) => {
-    let prev = decl.prev();
-
-    while(prev) {
-        if(prev.type !== "comment") {
-            throw decl.error("composes must be the first declaration", {
-                word : "composes",
-            });
-        }
-
-        prev = prev.prev();
-    }
-};
-
 module.exports = (css, result) => {
     const { opts } = result;
     
@@ -47,8 +31,6 @@ module.exports = (css, result) => {
         const details = parser.parse(decl.value);
         const selectors = decl.parent.selectors.map(identifiers.parse);
 
-        composesFirst(decl);
-
         // https://github.com/tivac/modular-css/issues/238
         if(selectors.some(({ length }) => length > 1)) {
             throw decl.error(
diff --git a/packages/processor/test/__snapshots__/composition.test.js.snap b/packages/processor/test/__snapshots__/composition.test.js.snap
index ca8ed014d..e182270b7 100644
--- a/packages/processor/test/__snapshots__/composition.test.js.snap
+++ b/packages/processor/test/__snapshots__/composition.test.js.snap
@@ -9,6 +9,16 @@ Object {
 }
 `;
 
+exports[`/processor.js composition should allow composes anywhere 1`] = `
+Object {
+  "multiple-composes.css": Object {
+    "a": "a",
+    "b": "a b",
+    "c": "a b c",
+  },
+}
+`;
+
 exports[`/processor.js composition should compose a single class 1`] = `
 Object {
   "single-composes.css": Object {
diff --git a/packages/processor/test/composition.test.js b/packages/processor/test/composition.test.js
index 4aff1a8d3..37e7f3320 100644
--- a/packages/processor/test/composition.test.js
+++ b/packages/processor/test/composition.test.js
@@ -69,23 +69,6 @@ describe("/processor.js", () => {
             }
         });
 
-        it("should fail if composes isn't the first property", async () => {
-            try {
-                await processor.string(
-                    "./invalid/composes-first.css",
-                    dedent(`
-                        .a { color: red; }
-                        .b {
-                            color: blue;
-                            composes: a;
-                        }
-                    `)
-                );
-            } catch({ message }) {
-                expect(message).toMatch(`composes must be the first declaration`);
-            }
-        });
-
         it("should fail on rules that use multiple selectors", async () => {
             try {
                 await processor.string(
@@ -130,6 +113,29 @@ describe("/processor.js", () => {
             
             expect(compositions).toMatchSnapshot();
         });
+        
+        it("should allow composes anywhere", async () => {
+            await processor.string(
+                "./multiple-composes.css",
+                dedent(`
+                    .a { color: red; }
+                    .b {
+                        background: blue;
+                        composes: a;
+                    }
+                    .c {
+                        border: 1px solid red;
+                        composes: a;
+                        text-weight: bold;
+                        composes: b;
+                    }
+                `)
+            );
+            
+            const { compositions } = await processor.output();
+            
+            expect(compositions).toMatchSnapshot();
+        });
 
         it("should compose from globals", async () => {
             await processor.string(
diff --git a/packages/www/src/guide/comparison.md b/packages/www/src/guide/comparison.md
index 0ccfa893a..34eeb8d5d 100644
--- a/packages/www/src/guide/comparison.md
+++ b/packages/www/src/guide/comparison.md
@@ -93,3 +93,7 @@ CSS Modules allows for importing multiple values from an external file.
 ### Support
 
 CSS Modules is really only fully-supported as part of webpack these days. The repo is effectively mothballed, and there appears to be almost no one supporting the current codebase. Since webpack is the only live version & we prefer to use rollup for it's cleaner output and smaller bundles we needed an approach that could be flexibly be used with a [variety](#rollup) [of](#browserify) [tools](#cli).
+
+### `composes` location
+
+After a long time with `composes` being required to be the first declaration in a rule the ability to use a tool like [`stylelint-order`](https://github.com/hudochenkov/stylelint-order) has reduced the need for `modular-css` to enforce positional requirements. After a push in [#645](https://github.com/tivac/modular-css/issues/645) the requirement was removed in [#646](https://github.com/tivac/modular-css/pull/646), which was published in v25. This is a change from CSS Modules, which continues to require that `composes` be the first declaration in a rule.
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