Saturday, August 2, 2025

Gripping it Nov. 25, 2013

 

it feels like the end of something o

only I don't know what

 her clinging to some thread

 tempted by some opportunity

yet knowing she can't hold on

 at least not for long

her fingers bleeding

from gripping something

 she should release

 and would be better off without

you can't let life

get in the way of common sense

when we know what we ought to do y

et can't bring ourselves to do it

 a struggle over something

we can't imagine living without

 yet do not have a firm enough grip on

 to keep it anyway

tempted and yet desperate to resist

 like a kid in a candy counter with a toothache

 unable to feel whether she needs the sweets

 more than she needs relief from pain

all of it a great mystery

 only she knows the details of

 not quite the end of the world

but maybe the end of hers

the keeping

] the letting Go

 the moving on

 she needs most


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