Spirit tells me that

New beginnings require endings.

We each must learn

Through experience, how far

We can go in making

Concessions to please others,

For whatever reasons.

There is a limit, He tells me,

That only experience can

Teach us.

When it becomes more painful

To hold onto than to let go, then

A chapter in our Life ends, and

A new one begins.

Even then, we may still be

Involved with whomever or

Whatever we have let go of, But

It will never again be as it

Once never was.