Letting Go

By Carly Floyd

4/12/10

Everyone moving forward

Blurs from where I'm standing

Parting around me,

A river

Me, a rock to halt the waters

Divert them

If only for a moment.

People changing

Moving on from here

While I remain unchanged

Just the same.

Around me, laughter

Talk of plans

Of new places

For their fresh new faces.

And me

I sit

In the same corner as always

Afraid

I want to hold them here

And go on like this forever

But they are moving forward

With me still in my corner

Afraid to get up,

And change

But I know, secretly,

That soon I'll have to let them go.