It must be something like 
the difference 
between heaven and hell 
but how, in advance, 
can you tell? 
If letting go 
is saying no, 
then what is holding on 
saying? 
    Come. 
    Can anyone be held? 
    Can I-? 
The impossible conundrum, 
the closed circle, 
why 
does lightning strike this house 
and not another? 
Or, is it true 
that love is blind 
until challenged by the drawbridge 
of the mind? 
    But, saying that, 
one's forced to see one's definitions 
as unreal. 
We do not know enough about the mind, 
 or how the conundrum of the imagination 
dictates, discovers, 
or can dismember what we feel,
or what we find. 
Perhaps 
one must learn to trust 
one's terror: 
the holding on 
the letting go 
is error: 
 the lightning has no choice, 
  the whirlwind has one voice.