Your Advice

Your advice leaves me sad and empty.
You tell me I should let it go.
I cannot understand how
I'm supposed to do that.

It's not who I am.
The pain is real;
I swallow
it down
whole.

Your advice leaves me sad and empty.
You tell me I should let it go.
I cannot understand how
I'm supposed to do that.

My heart breaks each time,
no matter how
hard I try
to let
go.

~Elise Skidmore ©2024