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Letting Go
2006-08-30

I saw you today
you looked so beautiful
but yet i could not tell you
for he was right there next to you
i need to let go

I saw your smile, and thought....
never mind, I can?t say that, not to you
for even though you are with him
and we are friends, it doesn?t change me
i need to let go

i just want to make sure your happy
and not making a mistake by letting you
put your heart in the wrong lap...
not that I?m jealous or anything.
i need to let go

so i am jealous of this guy
who wouldn?t be, but that doesn?t
change that i am not your priority
even though you might be mine
i need to let go

i heard that you are sick
so i came to visit, and we laughed
and we talked, and we smiled
but we are just friends
i need to let go

and so i have to let him in
let him be the one who tells you
how beautiful you are
how great your smile is
i need to let go

even the rain cannot stop
your radiance that shines in all lights
i know your smile, i know your hurts
i want to know all of you
i need to let go

but i am just the next in line
a person who stands so close
and yet stands so far
and its hard,
i need to let go

its hard to sit here and pray
that you are happy with him
and to wish you two the best of luck
and to wish peace for you
i need to let go

its hard to sit here and watch
someone else, its hard to sit here
its hard not to be angry at myself
for letting you be with him
i need to let go

why can?t i let go of this
something that doesn?t exist
why can?t i sit still
and be a silent moth
i need to let go

and yet
as the more hurt i am
as the more unaware you are
as the more the smiles mean nothing
as the more that i see you become happy with him
as the more that i know that i have lost you to another guy
i let go

i am free
to choose my own
to be my own
and yet

i still care
i will always care
i will always know
that it was him you choose.

James O. Stewart