She’d built herself a dam
So she could hold her tears at bay
A wall of stubborn barricade
To keep the pain away
Her barriers were busyness
Distraction and denial
And ignoring and avoiding’s
How she coped for quite a while
But the trouble was, her dam
Left nowhere for her pain to go
So it sat behind her wall
With nothing left to do but grow
The tightening in her chest
Began constricting every breath
And to battle every painful thought
Took every ounce of strength
The lump inside her throat
Got slightly bigger every day
And before too long she found
She couldn’t blink her tears away
So the pressure kept on building
And the dam began to crack
And it soon became impossible
To hold the water back
So she let the dam burst open
And as she felt the water flow
She realised sometimes all we need
Is just to let go
