When We Let Go

by Rochelle B. Weinstein

“Holding on to something broken won’t get you what you want.

Sometimes the things people don’t say hurt worse than the things they do.

People think they’re doing you a favor by avoiding the tougher subjects, but the silence only makes the absence bigger, deafening.

“Isn’t that love?” he asked. “Finding the calm in all the chaos?”

And I think of all the storms we weathered to land in this place. The broken dreams. The prayers we cast off into the sky. And I know now that endings bring forth new beginnings, and letting go means you’re alive.