Let Me Go
By Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo 11/06

Here is a dawn that responds to a soul who is boldly searching
Replacing a stone that will hold when the waves overthrow the breeze
Let me be the girl who reappears into the light
Remember me by the rays of the moon
Where the sunrise is most likely to shine
From drowning the darkness will reopen a world
I never thought could ever be mine

But I can testify this time

That poetry found me whispering one morning…

Teaching me how to reach the spirits of these 3 free falling angels
Showing me how to rebuild a castle
Between Heaven's sand and the darkest hand of the earth's gravel
Releasing the weights of a thousand shackles
Taught me how to bend time beneath my fingers

Then the moment in the poem let me go

So let me be that girl...

Let me be the girl who reminds you of rainbows
Let me be the girl who you see from your bedroom window

Believe in love the same way you believe in what it should be

Believe in the tumble and the glide downstream
And maybe the river will lead to a key that unlocks the impossible dream

Believe in me when the silence invites you to seek
A temple of peace that brings you back
to the fire that fills your prayers
with the promises
of a new
life

Believe in the valley…the valley that lifts your soul into a perfect tempo

Then follow the path no matter how treacherous
No matter how bold
Let it take you there…to pay it forward
Choose to grab hold…
Let it move you towards the fullest potential
Your journey could possibly ever go