Letting Go

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Letting Go
You’d think I’d want to let it be
Release the cruel memory.
I’ve tried to do it! You can see
It’s clawing marks all over me:
It will not let me go.

You’d hope that time would heal the wrong
So that as years turn slowly on
Even the scars would not last long.
You do not understand this one:
It will not let me go.

You’d wonder why I try not hard
To loose the roots from this poor shard
Of broken heart. The beast has barred
Itself in me and I am marred:
It will not let me go.

You’d tell me I should just be brave
And that pain’s better than the grave
The beast would dig – that I can save
Myself. Yet I am still a slave:
It will not let me go.

You’d say that chains can’t last forever
And that if I’d but seek to sever
Me from what is giving fever
Of despair – then now or never!
It will not let me go.

You’d sigh and shake your head at me
Poor pitiful who could be free
From all the tortures that are me.
Even when I try not to be,
It will not let me go.

You’d murmur there must be a way
And it will come to me – someday.
So that with the last thing you say
I choose to drive it all away
By letting myself go.



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  1. Like I said earlier, I love this work, especially the lines: "You’d tell me I should just be brave/And that pain’s better than the grave." The rhyme between them is so natural and unforced and the message shines clear. :D

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