There are crucial moments in our lives when we have to go. Go far away from places that make you unhappy. Go away from people that pull you down. Sometimes some relationships just don't work despite all the efforts and it is better to go. Take a new path. Those are moments when we choose to go. However, in some cases, we can not choose. At the moment when destiny decides that we should go to another world, there is not much we can change. One day we all inevitably have to go. For those who stay, it is not always easy to grasp. But the message sent to us by this poem caught my attention. Miss me, but let me go.

So here is the poem, written by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Let me go

When I come to the end of the road
And the sun has set for me
I want no rites in a gloom-filled room
Why cry for a soul set free? Miss me a little, but not for long
And not with your head bowed low
Remember the love that once we shared
Miss me, but let me go.
For this is a journey we all must take
And each must go alone.
It's all part of the master plan
A step on the road to home.
When you are lonely and sick at heart
Go the friends we know.
Laugh at all the things we used to do
Miss me, but let me go.
When I am dead my dearest
Sing no sad songs for me
Plant thou no roses at my head
Nor shady cypress tree
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet
And if thou wilt remember
And if thou wilt, forget.
I shall not see the shadows,
I shall not fear the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

As my entry for this week 41 #openmic, Hive Open Mic, I play a composition called Adieux to the Piano. It is attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven, but it is almost certainly not one of his compositions. Some publishers, to increase their sales, faked the names of the composers, so this Waltz in F major could be probably the work of another composer. This composition doesn't appear in any of the sketchbooks nor in any publication during Beethoven's lifetime, so this is the reason many thinks it is not Ludwig's composition.

Anyway, I found it as a nice piece to represent saying goodbye to someone who has to go.

The source of the photos is pixabay