Let go
of how things
were supposed
to be.

Give those expectations
back to sea, toss them
into the tides…
far and wide, dissolve them
in a wash of waves.

They were lovely notions-
ideals of a younger shell
of yesteryears who’d yet
to come into completion
and learn to stand in nothing
but her own skin beneath
the moon of this world.

Let go
of how things
were supposed
to be-

For it is only in
such letting go
that you can become,
the person you
are meant to be.