Letting go

All four sinews pulling tight
Into a ball forming knots with interconnecting sides
Release all toxins and travel the sinewy paths
Upwards to the chest and radiate to the neck
Torment and grief the wretched walls squeeze together
Air collapsing on itself –a nothingness ousted
Bending boughs touch the ground
Doubling up as muscles pull tighter
No release, no relief, let go, let go
Before it fragments into pieces fine
Shadows left of a time behind

As lovers they traversed their golden paths
Rushes bowed at the garden gate
And onlookers looked a thousand times
Centred inside their gilded lillies
An awe, an energy, a passion true
The river swelled as diamonds grew
For they are real and embedded deep
Internal prisms shine beyond
No masks, no layers, no bridges, no doubts
Confidence paints a living frame
To clutch, caress, breathe and hold.

The earthly’s gone; left its home
Uprooted from a mother’s embrace
The swelling’s intense, a plain to flood
But parched is the earth; arid is the bough
The rock inside matted deep
And as it explodes inside my core
A thousand diamonds cut my ducts
My eyes are blinded, I hardly see
But feel the pain bodies as they leave
And travel to abodes anew
I must let go, I must let go.