Let Go

Have you ever learned,
the hardest thing in happiness,
is to let your dearest ones,
leave and have their own?

There's no other thing,
so greedy as holding their hearts,
so dangerous as the presumption,
that we're the only one on earth,
who can make them happy.

But our eyes can never fake,
the envy acutely consuming,
the anger so utterly vexing,
the jealousy intensely amusing,
the addiction overly persisting.

So often it's torturing,
to hear them burst in laugh,
but simply not because of you;
to watch them walk cheerily,
but clearly not at your side.

Now step back and see inside.
Would you not want them to be happy?
Would you not see them smiling?
Would you not do anything absurd,
just to watch them live heartily ever after?

Then this must be the simplest answer.
Let them go. Let them live. Let them laugh.
Even if you would have to accept,
yet all of this, is not your sacrifice.