I don’t know how to let you go
How could I when you’re
In everything I see and do
From my waking moments
Until my eyes flutter shut
You even visit me in my dreams

I don’t know how to let you go
I could write pages full of memories
And fill novel after novel
Until there’s no room left
On these dusty shelves
For books I’m too afraid open
Too afraid to read
Too afraid to feel

I don’t know how to let you go
And maybe I don’t have to
In one hand I hold grief
In the other hand, guilt
And now I’m learning to unclench my fingers
So I can cradle your sweet memory.