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Into The Breach...


Letting go not holding on,

the closing act of life

 

To make the crossing burden free,

past vestiges of strife

 

Letting go not holding on,

from years that pile high

 

The greatest weight the last to leave

that final one—goodbye

 

(Dreamsleep: March, 2021) 

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Kurt Philip Behm

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