Poem: “Letting Go” by Edwina Gateley

It is time to go.

I can smell it.

Breathe it.

Touch it.

And something in me

Trembles.

I will not cry.

Only sit bewildered.

Brave and helpless

That it is time.

Time to go.

Time to step out

Of the world

I shaped and watched

Become.

Time to let go

Of the status and

The admiration.

Time to go.

To turn my back

On a life that throbs

With my vigor and a spirit

That soared

Through my tears.