Letting Go Poem by Shelly Price

Yesterday is gone...
soon I'll face a new tomorrow.
Today is my reality...
no regrets and no sorrow.

So many a times...
I have wanted to go back.
Back to a place, to a time...
to a moment to extract.

But what purpose does it serve...
to live in days gone by?
Afraid of what I see in today...
in yesterday I hide.

Without thought to the present,
I cling to the crest of a dieing wave.
It's one precious moment in time...
that at all costs I fight to save.

What I forget when I cling...
is that my moment has passed...
and all that I'm clinging to...
is just a moment in the past.

What was...was...
and in my mind will always be.
Today I let go of my wave...
and it rolled back into the sea.

What's left of my moment...
is a memory that's all mine.
A memory to cherish always...
of a precious moment in time.

There is no regret in letting go...
in letting go I can live in today.
What is...is today, it's my future...
and my past is no longer in my way.


Dedicated to one I love...

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