Love demands

So often love demands
release, a letting go
of those, we hold within
our hearts and minds,
and yet who cannot stay,
in ways they did before
a time, when life and
soul decreed, that they
must walk alone awhile;
that we're not what
they need.  There is
no holding on to that,
which must stand full
apart, and do the work
demanded; pursue
their own bright star.
It hurts to loosen ties
of love, the pain is deep
and dark, and yet there
is no other way - they
have their own true path.