Learning to Let Go
Poetry and Prose Sharing the Pain, Pleasure, and Purpose of Letting Go
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In my adult years I have resolved to be so brutally honest so that it scares away all the feeble, fake, and flimsy people. Hence why this book is authentic and unfiltered, because for so much of my life I covered, diluted, and accommodated everyone else at my own expense. I am a sensual black woman, mother, (happy) divorcee, daughter, executive, best friend, mentor, niece, confidant, and lover. I have lived a lifetime of being everything that everyone else wanted me to be, and that shit is over! I wear many hats and although that is a blessing, I find it equally heavenly to take off all of them, strip down all the labels, expectations and demands for myself and just be naked, baring nothing but my soul to the universe (which I do in this book!).
Finally, I need you to understand this. My whole heart prays that while you read Learning to Let Go you will finally make the tough decisions to release those people, perspectives and things that refuse to allow you to be true to yourself. I have been exceedingly nervous to publish this book because, I keep a very tight circle and don't let too many people in my personal life. However, my privacy is not more important than our collective healing and breakthrough. So, while reading this let me encourage you by saying, take my stories but create your own narrative of transformation. I believe it’s just this simple. If it hurts more than it heals, let it go. If it gives you more pain than pleasure, let it go. If it suffocates more than it liberates, let it go. If it is killing you to hold on, please let that shit go!
The Stories We Do Tell
It’s amazing how insignificant, I can make you.
It’s powerful to take back the power I gave.
It’s exhilarating, to believe you are unnecessary.
It’s excited to dance on the thoughts you.
It’s eerily satisfying to tell myself, that I was one of your many frivolous mistakes.
I feel good, thinking that I am completely invaluable...to you.
It can be fulfilling to conclude there was no truth to anything ever said.
It’s incredible, the stories we do tell.
The truth is…
It’s debilitating to acknowledge your significance to me.
It’s incapacitating to have a weakness, when I’ve always been strong
It’s frustrating having past memory peak into my mind in the middle of meetings.
It’s saddening that I have to make myself dislike you, so I can like myself.
It’s hard to see this to be so easy for you, observing as you divulge in daily depreciation.
I feel bad wanting more of what I know I don't need.
It’s incredible the stories we tell ourselves.
I find myself reading you like a book.
Some days when I scroll the pages it's full of solace, vision and strength to my soul.
Other days, its blank with timed lapsed text responses and gerrymandering glances
Then on another day, it’s filled with hypocritical declarations coupled with consistent contextual prevarications that completely counter the words that are spoken through the pages of your lips.
Some words never make it on the page because you stubbornly keep them hidden in your head and heart.
So, this unfinished work, just sits idle and stares back at me from the bookcase.
Unsure, if I will ever be able to close and put down this novel.
It’s amazing the stories we tell.
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About the Book
Feeling the pain from hitting rock bottom after experiencing the unholy trinity of death, desolation, and divorce. She masterfully journeys back into the canals of her childhood memories, teenage fallacies, and adulthood to identify the detrimental strongholds, patterns, and behaviors she grew attached to. While laughing out loud at her hot comb traumas, crying inside for all her hidden pain, and rejoicing at her deliverance. She culminates each short story in a silky, sincere, and strong translation of her transformation. Beautifully sharing life lessons, failures and the pleasures endured, as she learned to let go of everything that hurt more than it healed, her heart.
About the Author
D.D. Thompson is the author of Learning to Let Go. She is an accomplished Business executive, Diversity & Inclusion advocate, and passionate Public Administrator. Holding a Master of Business Administration (MBA), from Ohio Christian University. And a bachelor’s from The Ohio State University. She began writing poetry at the age of twelve. And from the first poem to her newly published memoir more than three decades later, all her writings include authentic narratives of the relational human experience. She delicately explores the heights and depths of familial dynamics, intimate and platonic relationships with humor and sensuality. Producing her best writing after a combination of mediation, soft music, and strong tea (or semi-sweet wine). She methodically crafts her works with vivid detail and sincere emotion. D.D. Thompson is honored to be the mother of three amazing children and one Goldendoodle.