Good-Bye

How do you hold what cannot be held?
What will not be held?
What must not be held?
When there isn't a thing which can be held
If it will fight away.

How do you keep what has to be kept?
What you will to be kept?
What you feel must be kept?
When the only things that can be kept
Are those that want to stay.

How do you face it -- the letting go?
What will not be held?
What you feel must be kept?
When the knowing when and the letting go
Are love's hard price to pay.