Letting Go

I held the dream like a chunk of ice in my hand

It was cold and hurt me, you wouldn't understand

A crystal so clear and perfect as my life it shone

In pain melting faster the tighter I held it, I groaned

Water like blood, drop by drop, slipped away as tears

Through fingers that no longer controlled my fears

Losing it fully, insane, the dream replaced by nightmares

As ice crystal shard vanished and hope disappeared

Lifting my head from wet hands surrounded in mud

Enraged now like fire, fighting the oncoming flood

Emotions kept pounding, waves on bullheaded shore

Then with thunder the rain came as if from my core

My empty fists opened became wingtips east and west

Southward now flying to sunshine's larger nest

Little Hummingbird holds the universe in her eye as she darts

The dream a dew drop on a petal of my rose blossom heart

~ Four Eagles

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