Amidst a little nonsense, there is a poignant message about Love. If "true-love" is truly unconditional and non-detached, then that love can let go, and allow a person to die, when it is obviously their time to go.

Love Is Letting Go

Why go on
When your body has failed,
Why send a letter
That never was mailed,
Why own a comb
If you've lost all your hair,
You can't hold your breath
If there isn't any air,
Why go on reading
If it isn't making sense,
Can you say you have a farm
If it doesn't have a fence?

Why prolong the suffering
Of the one you love the most,
Are your grief and loss so great
You are clinging to her ghost,
Sit beside her, hold her hand
Feel her pain and you will know,
That love is giving and receiving
And love is letting go.

Fibril_late; 11/94