Hold On

We've been told to

Let it go and

Watch the world erupt into song and

Adventure leap out of the hillsides

It's the promise of Heidi 

On crack but

A little lower

There's an older promise

Connected to a simpler and

Sometimes more courageous act

Too often confused with the submissive wife and

Neville Chamberlin

Not that anyone remembers him or

That when playgrounds were blessed with metal slides and

Teeter totters

We did not ride the merry go round 

(Also called the roundabout to avoid confusion and visions of painted horses)

Alone and
That while we loved letting go 

It wasn't the hardest part

Did Navajo children go away to college
I don't
Remember the first time I held her hand or
Forget
Ever
That taking it in mine and
Letting it go
Are as connected as we are
In winter
Summer and
Probably even in the Swiss alps
I suppose that courage
Like the illegality of defecation
And most everything else is
Situational