it is okay to let go
it is okay to feel unfinished, incomplete
            to be at ease with imperfection
            in all our flaws and inconsistency

it is okay to be uncertain,
            to doubt much
            or to embrace the unknown

it is okay to have questions
                        that may only lead to more questions
                        for one of the best things we can learn
                                   is to leave the wild as untamed as it needs to be
                                   to keep mystery alive and allow it to breathe
                                   without being so quick to pin on an easy answer
                                   to something that was never meant to be known

it is okay to be acquainted with pain, for that is how we have grown
            how we’ve learned how
            to love and to give
            selflessly and honestly
            and to pour our hearts
                                    into the empty handed
                                    because we have experienced what it means to be

                                                                                    lonely

                                    what it means to be bruised

it is okay to have fear, to feel powerless at times
           for we are human and life is erratic and fiercely odd  
                        and to us it was never meant to make absolute sense

for we are only so young for so long
            and we are only so old
                         so dream when you dare to dream
                                  without limits, free and hopeful

reaching still for worlds unseen

~weswallowthesun