I hate to say it--but we all know someone who needs to learn this lesson--either let go and let God, or relax, relate and release! LOL! Hope you enjoy this piece.

I held onto…

All of the slights
And all of their pain;

All of the loss
And all of its shame;

All of the anger
And all of its hurt

All the resentment
And its ugly dirt

All of the treachery
And all of its scars

All of the misery…

Until it was hard--

To run like an arrow
To walk tall and proud
I sunk, bent with burden
My speech cried out ‘foul’

Eventually I slumped
Then fell down so low
I was buried beneath
That torture that flowed

From all of that mass
A lifetime of hate
Pursuit of sweet vengeance
That helped to create

Disease in my heart
That could not be cleansed
Except by a breath--
Sweet oxygen again

So I carved a tunnel
Though it all now was stone
Lined it with sound doctrine
And this lesson learned--

That what I can’t change
I’ll just leave alone
And that which I can
I’ll work on and own.