Letting Go
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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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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