I had to let go

The first morning after dawned with sunny attitude.
I was still climbing for emotive altitude,
but my might I found was slight.
There were things I had to let go.
To protect my heart.
To keep on loving like a dove.
The weather offshore was wind greedy.
The desire for shade and coolness
making everyone needy.
There were some things I had to let go.
To keep the peace,
hoping society’s violence would cease.
As I walked away from the manicured grounds,
each step was weighed down by pounds.
There were some things I had to let go.
To be not provoked.
To neither rise nor despise.
My will had dropped into doldrums too long,
and the wind brought not a song.
I could not hear my heart beating
but I could feel it leaping and leaking.
There were some things I had to let go.
To be able to live and continue on.
To again find life’s song.
I had to go deep drawer
to find an emotive thawer.
To fix emotional damage with emotion.
There were some things I had to let go.
To not be caught up in all the social media strife.
Personal loss cuts like a knife.
There were some things I had to let go.
If I was to return to life’s jubilant flow,
and my face find its glow, bouncing back
higher than a crow on an eagle knack.
Life’s little hacks I would attack.
There were some things I had to let go.
But politicians and their wrong doings, oh no.
There were just some things I could not let go.
My delicious honey still invaded my thoughts.
Though her memory I had not sought.
There were some things I could not let go.
I would forgive and evil I would not relive.
As the Savior forgave me,
so would my life be.
There were some things I still had to let go.
To reach the other side
that invisibility hides.
I had to let go of it all,
to clear the last wall to eternity’s hall
and there prostrate fall.

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