Let Go

Let Go
07/08/02

There are so many lessons to learn in this life:
How to cherish the joy and go on through the strife...
But of all of these lessons, the most toilsome I know
Is the tedious learning of how to let go.

One learns to cry tears when they need to be shed.
One learns what to say when it needs to be said.
One learns how to help those around one to grow,
But no one has figured out how to let go.

We can love, we can laugh, we can mourn, we can die,
We can smile ‘til the time comes for saying goodbye.
We survive as the storm tosses us to and fro
But we cannot quite master just how to let go.

Man has built sturdy bridges crossing over the seas,
He has walked on the moon and has sailed on the breeze.
He has gathered more knowledge than any should know,
But none of it teaches us how to let go.

I have been many places and made many friends,
And I have discovered that everything ends.
I am brimming with wisdom of life, even so,
I’m forbidden to understand how to let go.