What do you need to let go?

Is it stuff?  Baggage?
Trinkets wrapped in tissue paper
Yellowed by the years
Trunks full of dim memories,
Outgrown dreams
And crumpled hopes?

What do you need to let go?

A toxic relationship?
Walk away with your head high.
Wish them the best but leave.
Letting go takes more courage
Than staying.  Walk away…
Unbound.

What do you need to let go?

Is it anger?
Fiery searing in your being
Smoldering and intense?
Let it burn itself out
Leaving only ashes.
Gather them
Blow them away
And be free.

What do you need to let go?

Is it fear?
Fear overcome is exhilaration.
As the fledgling nudged
From the nest
Must feel as he falls…
Then finds power
In his tiny wings.

What do you need to let go?

Is it grief?
Grief lived through
Can feel like death itself,
But as death transforms
Grief …let go...
Gives rise to strength.

What do you need to let go?