Slip Into Sweetness

Slip into perfect calm, sweet emptiness,
lovely chance to let it all go away.
Remember it's okay to relax.
Remember that you can relax.
Remember you can let go for a while.
There's a little terror in letting go,
because you're afraid you'll never get it back again.
But it's okay to let go.

It's good to be able to control yourself,
and it's good to find direction.
But not every moment needs direction.
Not every moment needs a purpose.
You can relax that hold on yourself
enough to remember:
there's more to life than purpose.
There's more to life than pursuing a goal.

(Not that I can tell you what it is...)
It's just so nice to go easy on yourself, sometimes,
although more often it's a nightmare.
Take a little and it's nice,
take a lot and it's a recipe for one hell of a hangover.
Which shouldn't be a problem, really.
But what makes it a problem is that
you always want to take a lot.

So you push yourself to be better
because you can't let that part of yourself win.
You have to keep pushing
because that part of you wants to give up.
You can't listen to that voice.
But you have to know
it's okay to let it slip sometimes.
It's okay to relax.

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