let go the tight grip
you have
around your life
it is not your slave
or your enemy
it is not even yours!
instead
hold your life
as you would
a small child
full of potential
and wide eyed openness.

you do not write
the book of your life
you are a poem
being written
a song being sung
and all this
clutching 
and grasping
and squeezing
does nothing
but cause pain.

why not let go
and see your life
as a glorious
masterpiece
of darkness 
and light,
of joy and sorrow,
a dance of form
in emptiness.

this is freedom.