"let all go / dear / so comes love"

surrender with care to allow airflow

Comb with Putti and Sea Creatures, Italian, late 11th–early 12th century, elephant ivory, Public Domain

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let it go – the

e.e. cummings

let it go – the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise – let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go – the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers – you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go – the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things – let all go
dear

so comes love

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Creative Invitation

I have an old friend who tattooed these words on her breast:

“let all go
dear—

so comes love”

I thought it was the most beautiful tattoo I’d ever seen. At the time, she was in her twenties, working at Bookwoman bookstore by day and in the service industry by night, hosting potluck brunches at her tiny tilted apartment, going to community college, scraping by. Now, twenty years later, she is a medical doctor of transgender healthcare in New York City.

I’d love to ask her what she let go of to become herself.

I’d love to ask you what you let go of to become yourself.

What letting go was required to become you, authentically?

What you are next willing to let go of in the service of wholeness?

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