Letting go

You don’t scream

Cry out for help

Swing a punch

Try to get away

Call it by name

Is this what you think you deserve

Is this what you want

How can you let it

Tear your children into pieces

How can you not care

We have held on

For so many years

Pulled with all our might

We can not

Do this anymore

Too many lies

Too much darkness

Too much cold

We offered sunlight, you didn’t want it

We offered a path, you didn’t walk it

We can’t solve this

We can’t fix this

Only you can

And you won’t

So we must

We need to

Let go of the rope