Tagged: hold on
things we hold onto,
things we hold onto,
things we let go – slippery
is conditional
.
20221201:1811
y
departures come and
departures come and
go as often as arrivals –
we hold on longer
.
20210907:2242
y
my six aunts and
my six aunts and
uncle gather around
grandma’s hospital
bed, allowing
the performance of
procedure to overtake the
art of living.
Their hands
are collectively
tied in the pursuit
of individual
blamelessness.
grandma looks
on, one against
six, a tube down
her throat, mindful
of cumulative losses.
as in every
situation, time
flexes its
muscles, taunting us
to hold on or let go
while duty,
devotion, and rivalry
measure us for both
.
20180512:1047
y
there is as much
all of it begins
all of it begins
to fade even as we are
capturing it – pen
to paper, experience
to memory – don’t hold on
.
20170519:2257
y
there is a stinging
there is a stinging
ceaselessness to unloving –
we try out the same
words elsewhere, hold tight to other
words for just a while longer
.
20170503:0730
y
seconds before flight,
seconds before flight,
we are at a standstill, holding
onto emptiness
.
20170425:2101
y
there is an ease to
there is an ease to
us that is closer to letting
go than holding on
.
20161102:2258
y
let us not forget
let us not forget
this feeling, even when we
have not quite
identified it – a gelatinous
persuasion of guilt
if you do and
guilt if you don’t –
stuck treading
words that have been
said, flutter kicking
into words that have
been left unsaid
.
20161029:0522
y
hours before flight,
hours before flight,
small regrets couched in relief –
saying no to cheese-
cake, you, and holding onto
a semblance of the unknown
.
20160720:1620
y
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