Let Go

I close my eyes, let the memories subside

And try to find a part of me still alive

With pressure to regroup, but then I picture you

I try running away, but only get played for a fool

So I’m forced into illusions, of drama and confusion

In reality the picture is ruined

What was loved is lost

All at my cost

I guess everything that goes up eventually falls

 

Let go

Let go and fly

Forget

Forget? But, why?

Believe

Believe in I

See everything break and take my life

 

This feeling that I have from the past won’t seem to rest

I try to put my best face forward, but stay upset

I hang my head down because I’m such a tragic mess

How can I give my all, when all I have is less?

My body breaks down, I’m dragging from all this stress

How can I love another when I’m still so obsessed?

Find tonight’s replacement, hiding behind sex

Love falls when your heart has no place to nest

But unless I keep trying

My soul will keep dying

Outside he smiles, yet inside he’s crying

 

Awaken my mind from being stubborn and blind

 

 

And sit back and realize this life isn’t mine

 

I can’t believe for everything that I’ve set out to find

 

That a broken soul can be controlled in no time

 

But yet I keep trying to play the right part

And seeing it now?

I didn’t leave the right mark

Because I abused and confused my lover’s heart

All because my own had been broken and dark

Since the start, I told you to be strong

It seems like I’ve been lying to myself all along

It hurts to look back at the picture that’s drawn

Because the picture painted an ending in which you were gone

Gone…gone…gone…I’ve gotta

 

Let go

Let go and fly

Forget? But, why?

Believe

Just believe in I

See everything break and take my life

 

Baby, sit back for one second and concentrate

On what I have to say, and don’t be so strong in fate

Try long and wait for me to finish my sentence

Don’t pick my words apart like a teenage apprentice

Alright, now let’s put the past aside

And look at the good, you can’t say I haven’t tried

Or that I ain’t cried for you, ain’t lied for you

You pushed me away when I nearly died for you

And I tried to do everything to make you smile

But your inner vision paints a picture of a child

Unsure of who you are and scared to speak

But to me? That’s what made you unique

 

Looking back now, I’ve got to wonder how

Life and love were all lost and not found

 

But I must let go

 

And bury the mask

 

Once and for all, and leave it all in my past

 

Reviews

[Fran Marie]

But I must let go



And bury the mask



Once and for all, and leave it all in my past



Oh, my Jason, a most poignant piece on heart break,

sad, although beautifully expressed with deep emotions

but comes the time to let go and stop reliving the heartbreak and get on with life~

THanks for sharing your talented pen my friend~Fran

[BABSIE BEE]

I find this so very moving. The longing for peace of mind and soul is exhaustive to the system and does nothing but harm, and because of the hearts deprivation, we fail in all we do.....and this continues till we get that most overly due peace and calm. When there is confusion with a split...it multiplies ten fold, over and over again. If only life was easier for us to deal with suchlikes. I hope you reach your goal and get that wonderful extatic ending that you are so searching for, and all will be well.
Thanks for sharing
Babsie Bee xx

[Nancy Lee Shrader]

Hey were you writing a song or a poem. Could be a song I think.

[Ladysue]

I agree this would make a fantastic song. It reads with good rhythm and the words just flow. Very well done!!!

[Patricia L. Allen]

This reaches into every heart and what was left unsaid and dangling hap hazardly, gets put into place by your courage to let it out in honest display. The man I am with today was not able to be my true beloved until I let him completely go. It took layers of detactment, taking all my hooks out of him, and relinquishing all possibilities of him being THE ONE, before, by a pure miracle, he became everything I'd always dreamed of in a man and his finally surrendering to his own heart's desire for me. It was a tricky ordeal as I had dreams of him loving and being with another woman...apparently much more alluring then myself. It was all a trick to help me LET GO. I was ready for another man to come sweep me away and lo and behold it turned out to be him all along. Not every love story has this kind of happy ending/beginning...but the main point is to learn how to let go so the destined one can appear.
Boy, JJ...you sure know how to stir us up! lol! Keep it up! It's the stagnant waters that spoil the swim forward.
Love, PP

[LisetteCanWrite!]

Wow .. what a deeply moving writing about letting go.. this easily could be turned into lyrics for a song.. the flow from you seems very real.. we all have things we do have to let go of from the past so that we can be strong and fly! This rings truth to me.. as many can most likely relate in 100 different ways to so many things in life.. I hope you find peace.. and learn to fly.. this writing is certainly a great step in that direction.. but writing I know is easier than actually letting go and soaring high... it takes work .. and time. Thank you so much for sharing this one.. we do need to let go to move on.. good luck if you are struggling or know someone struggling with that!!! =)