Volume V- Issue 9,  October 2006
Published by Llumina Press

 
Surrender



Never learned how to surrender

As I grew to be a man

It was a concept foreign

That I did not understand



I never learned to let it pass

Or turn and walk away

You fight until the end

No matter what, my Dad would say



I thought ‘not one step back’

Was how to face this life you see

But those who will not yield

Are often driven to their knee



Yet once while in a storm

I watched a mighty Oak defy

The power of its passage

As it swayed against the sky



I saw the branches shaking

As they twisted in the wind

But the only branches broken

We're the ones that would not bend





Delta Blue—The Silence