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Let It Go

By J. R. Morton

By Jason Ray Morton Published 2 years ago 2 min read
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Let It Go
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Where do we go from here

because I don't know this world any longer

This world is burning and drowning in fear

and the darkness is growing ever stronger

***

Longing for simpler times does no good

in the midst of randomness that abounds

To figure it all out would help if someone could

in a world of howling fear and its' wretched sounds

***

The bell tolls on the world

but they're all too deaf

Lost in this new world

of which soon there may be nothing left

***

Knowing what to do is not so hard

but having the strength to do it, I just don't know

Looking to the heavens for answers, my feet feel the grass from the yard

the world suddenly begins to slow

***

Nightmarish images flash before my eyes

feeling the pain of a thousand voices

Sad and alone a little one cries

while somewhere else someone suffers their choices

***

Like a light, extinguished, one voice quiets in the night

and I feel a little of that pain fading away

Not knowing in that home there is a ghastly sight

because there was nobody to come and save the day

***

Shots ring close

yet I do not flinch

Their familiar sound like the howl of a ghost

yet I don't move an inch

***

I feel them all around me

and I drown in their despair

Their stories they want to tell desperately

because their fates were never fair

***

I close my eyes so tight

and pray they would float away

Trying with all my might

They just return the next day

***

Where is the world I remember so fondly

and why did we let it go

How could we have acted so wrongly

and from here where do we go

***

Feeling it really strongly

wondering how to let it go

sad poetry
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About the Creator

Jason Ray Morton

I have always enjoyed writing and exploring new ideas, new beliefs, and the dreams that rattle around inside my head. I have enjoyed the current state of science, human progress, fantasy and existence and write about them when I can.

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  • Mariann Carroll2 years ago

    Excellent work !

  • Babs Iverson2 years ago

    Super sad poem and wonderfully written!💕

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