Snipping Cables

Woven steel cables, hooked, like marionette wires, to my back.

Snip, snip, snip

Ka-ching, Ka-ching

They drop to the tile floor, bouncing behind me, like springs from a ball point pin

I take a step, and glide forward

Floating, almost, towards the door

I look behind me

The 6 wires, that were embedded in my skin, my soul

Have fallen limp, lifeless

I take another step and feel as if someone, or something

is carrying me under my arms.

I am almost weightless

Free to move forward

To new life

New love

Letting it go

I'm letting go the dreams
The wishes
The plans
That I had for her.

She's making her own life.
Making choices that used to bring me
extreme pain.

In letting go of her
I am also letting go of the pain.

I feel peace.
Serene

Because her pain is hers.
My pain is mine.

I can see the twists and turns
of the road she has been on.
But I am not the navigator.
She is.

I can shine a light to guide.
But she might not want to be in the light.

And that is what we call free will.
Freedom to choose.

And I love her more, I think, today
Now that I let her go.