How not to let go

• Hold on. Forget
• to have have fun. Rerun
• every kiss you ever held
• like tomorrow won’t come.
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• Watch the sun paint the sky
• in thankless strokes. Let your mind
• play roulette with all your hopes.
• Tell yourself you have to do this
• alone. Remind yourself
• you’ll never find yourself
• and your way back home.
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• Don’t confess what a mess
• you are. Count your sins
• and every scar. Convince
• yourself you still want
• what you don’t want
• and let the Myrtle tree out front
• shed her pink dress
• without the lonely eyes
• of her only witness.