Letting Go

Everything we ever held in our hands is given to another...

Photo: © David Whyte

LETTING GO


At the end
things pass away
into a hard won perspective.
The sepia photographs
of childhood
like twilight encounters
with eternity
and the youthful
laughter pealing
across a mountainside.

Standing close together
we make our vows
in front of others
knowing
with a backward
kind of courage
that everything
passes
away no ma…