Letting Go by Joseph Farley

Ocean Beach San Francisco by Joanne Olivieri

letting go

it may be a tether

holding you

safely to the sure,

keeping you

from deep waters

where weak swimmers

should not go,

but in the far reaches

where the strong

swim alone

is found the song

of mermaids

and the Isles

of the Blessed.

if we drown

we drown

if we sink

we sink

the water

calls to us

and we must

dive in

and swim.