David Whyte

David Whyte

Letting Go

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

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David Whyte
Mar 21, 2024
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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…
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