Saturday, February 14, 2009

another old poem

She told me to let go,
of the sound, the emotion.
Art imitates life.
And I, always wanting to be in control,
everything closely contained as a tight fist.
Too tight.
Pieces of me slip through the cracks of fingers.
The more I try to hold in, the more leaks through.
I'm getting nowhere.
It's the buildup, she said.
The paradox:
the more you allow yourself to let go,
the better you'll be able to hold that which remains,
the essentials.
But I see only that I am not ready
to give myself to the world,
to unfurl the fingers every so often, 
to let the pieces fall as they may.
And so, the sound remains
incomplete.

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