Day 9: Visual Effect

Hmm. Today's prompt is to write a visual poem. With a specific shape relating to its subject matter. Not an easy task at all.

I love looking at these type of poems - but doing them? Well that's another matter. It's a question of what comes first the chicken or the egg i.e. - the poem's content or the structure? And VERY difficult I might add to do on the computer! But, in the spirit of sportsmanship, I'll give it a whirl. It sounds like challenging fun.

Letting Go

is often 

said to be some big    

brave gesture, certainty of

 closure in one heart-ripping effort 

of forced release. An once-off event. 
A leap into the abyss of emptiness. But 

there's more to it than that, more of a 
cumulative causality: every day a little 

letting go until the hand that's been 

holding the rope of regret so tight

softens its grasp, lightens its grip. 

You slowly, successfully forget. 

What you thought a balloon 

of hope is a harness 

holding you back. 
It drags you, 
you don't

 float.

          Until

                         one 

                                          day 

                              you

                 feel

      its 

                   pull

                               and

                                             say

                                                         no,
                             more.

                                              A 

                                     day 

                      you 

                                            know 

                                                            it's 

                                         time

                          to

              let 

                             it 

                                             go
                          just
       let

                                                             it

             go 
                           !