Let Go

I came across a piece written by a woman on Elephant Journal. I love that website. So many things I stumble on there that make me think. Different ways to approach love and loss and everything else. the piece I cam across was "She Let Go"  The poem can be found here.
www.elephantjournal.com/2014/02/she-let-go/


It inspired me. I felt that I needed to write my own version of this poem its very rough and I wrote it quickly on my iphone in my notes one early morning while I was close to the end of my shift at the hospital that I work at. The original is amazing and thought provoking. I, at the time I wrote this, was finally getting to a more healed place in my life after I started the process of my second divorce.


She let go.
She let go of what society dictated
and what was expected of her.
the confines of tradition that bound her
no longer had the hold it once did
she started to love her life
the way that she decided
and loved the way she wanted to love.
without convention
without restrictions
she freed her mind
and found herself
while crying under the pressures imposed on her
she healed herself and began to live.