We Have to Let You Go

We have to let you go.

I cried as I spoke these words
to a man today.

...and,
to his family,
his wife
his recently deceased father as he prays,
his mother in her last days
his future employers
and God...
...what can he say to their faces?

More, what can he say to himself?

At the end of his days
what can he say to himself
that he doesn't already know in his heart?

Forgive me....Thank you...

I bear witness.

Like a mirror to his soul he has seen self and the darkness
that seeks light in him.

Oh, I grieve that this is every-man,
that none of us make it out alive and

in the end
they will all say to us,
"we have to let you go"....