In Other News

It’s a toss-up between enraged denial

and realizing that everything 

you thought you knew is wrong.

It’s not easy giving up something 

you’ve clung to your whole life,

but people die every day.

Holding on is understood. 

We don’t know what letting go is for.

Forget survival, 

‘cause it ain’t gonna happen…

then what?

Death, rebirth, 

in this existence or the next.

Pay me now or pay me later.

Let go of the rope.