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The Letting Go

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The truth is dark outside the curtain.

Your eyes are closed to the falling snow

that's nestling at the feet of tall trees

that stand close and crowded 

as commuters on the evening train.

 

If there's a purpose to pain

it's to teach you how to let go.

You didn't realise it but

you can learn to live with the quiet

learn to listen to the space 

of someone's absence.

 

You can find a room there in the silence

like a cabin in a static of snow.

Where there's nothing but a chair and table

and a clean white sheet of paper

on which to practice saying goodbye

over and over.

◄ Harbour

Night Music ►

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Tom Harding

Sun 1st Jan 2017 15:24

Hi All,
Sorry for the delay, thank you for the kind comments.

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raypool

Fri 16th Dec 2016 22:54

This piece really gets under your skin with the depiction of simple feelings so hard to express and it succeeds eminently with its comparisons focussing in on the great voids and challenges that we must face.

Excellent and moving Tom

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M.C. Newberry

Wed 14th Dec 2016 14:40

Quietly effective - this observation of our relationship with
what is gone and our own continued existence. And how
we may come to terms with both within ourselves.

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