When It’s Time to Let Go At what point does doing something you love become a burden? When the hopes and dreams become nightmares And sometimes you don’t even want to go outside When your heart begins to ache And the passion turns numb That’s when you know that it has been done The death of a friend The birth of a memory And suddenly, we are right back at the start again The nerves start to tingle with anticipation Your breath becomes short and impatient Gasping for air that might fill that empty space right in the center of your gut where the love used to fill The tears come with the last of dying hope, leaving the soul The realization that letting go is truly a turn of a season It takes so much pain to let go of a friend Enough pain to make you question where your love even began
Katie Benson ‘23
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