Showing posts with label what we cannot hold and what we cannot let go. Show all posts
Showing posts with label what we cannot hold and what we cannot let go. Show all posts

Saturday, December 11, 2021

A Mighty Weakness


Linking with the Sunday Muse for Muse #190.  Come join us!

Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows... ~William Shakespeare

 

My soul is a parakeet that tries to fly

But my heart can be a cage

Gripping mightily to all I hold dear

But in the letting go I am weak

Like a lost man on a ledge

No longer able to stand

We lose many things in this life

And we carry each loss as we go

Like weary children crying to be picked up

We lift them upon our hip

Close and careful not to drop them

So I find that even in the letting go

I am still truly holding on.