let it go

“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”

                             Eckhart Tolle

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.”

                             Jesus (Luke 9)

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I don’t mind death

Its life that bugs me

I have picked up so much crap

Along the way

Expectations

Rules

Judgments

Values

And I cling to it all

Desperately at times

Afraid to let go

For fear that if it goes

So will I.

For I have allowed all of this

Which is not me

To become me

it must die

all of it

I must let it go

As painful and scary as that might be

Titles

Power

Money

My attachment to success

And admiration

I must be stripped down

to nothing, prepared for burial

hands empty

soul naked

with nothing, nothing, nothing

but with everything

Then, having died before I die

I will gaze into eternity

Knowing there is no death

And free

Free to be

Simply be, in the moment

accepting the way I feel, noticing my thoughts,

and doing what I care about