Please let me grieve
For this moment.
Through the night, into day.
Let me grieve,
For all of those lies I thought,
that you forced me to say.
Let me grieve,
For this broken heart
And for the one I broke of yours.
Please let me grieve, I beg.

Let me grieve……
As change looms before us
and timeless fate opens new doors.
I know I can't follow after you
And I can't see what lies in wait.
It is in front blocking my view
Our future, either one of us two,
the future of ours is lost, or
Just alone again upon the path
that we all walk but now I run
running ahead of you is me.
But just know no matter what,
when, or where
Your next open door ahead leads;
I love you and I know, you will
always love me too.

But please, please, let me this time!
Please, let me grieve.
Because this is not as easy
as it may appear
I do cry for you and my heart daily dies.
As I think of how it could have been.
But I couldn’t Let it
and you wouldn’t Let it
Indeed, that’s as it should be.
Because living like that
Is not living at all
It's living a lie and a fantasy.
The only part that I know is true
Is how much we loved each other.

So world, please, let me grieve.
Please stop this very moment right now.
Stop the time.
Stop the wind.
Stop the ocean currents wave
as it's hitting the beach sand......
I know that you can't.
I know it's impossible.
But much less, I know that you won't.
But still I beg you Time, please,
can you let me grieve?
Please at least, for just this once,
Please, Let me grieve.


© Gwen Canfield The Finishers Touch Poetry