Letting Go - NaPoWriMo 13

Today's prompt at the Poetic Asides is to write a "quit doing what I am doing" poem. As usual, I will also be posting this at Writers Island.

Letting Go

I need to let go,

unclench my fingers

clinging on to the exposed

under-roots on the river bank.

I need to drift like

a bright yellow leaf 

and explore the curves 

and dips of the stream

I need to bounce off 

of the boulders,

rub shoulders with flotsam 

and negotiate bits of

left over debris from 

old broken boats

I need to feel the sun

on my face, to battle 

the rain that tries to drown me.

I need to quit holding on 

to the tail ends of old 

experiences. 

I need to take the plunge.

I need to live again.

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