Letting Go

                   LETTING  GO          (c) Sol Spitz



Its hot, as your muscles tighten, and a shiver runs through your body,

It may be another feeling that its not real, but you don't

       look it in the eye, like it could cause you to move, so try to

       ignore it, and I hope your feeling better by Wensday   ---




Say you're going home, by the look of your eyes that try to hide,

Yer troubled, so you make small talk, in some kind of hope

      that it will all go away but then its quiet, but the

      noise in yer head grows, and you've run out of places to go  ---




Yer running, yer running some more, searching for air,

then you find you don't have to run, standing face to face,

Here I am, yield to the pressure, let it move aside,

      if yer troubled, you can run some more, thats okay,

      I'm beside you, I've never really left you, and thats okay too   ------




   (this song came to me as I was riding a horse that
    had some problems with people, she would blank out
    & take off running   ...   so rather than trying
    to restrain her as had been done by others, I let her go,
   and just touched her neck to let her know I was there,
   and she could have all the freedom she wanted, It was
   in northern arizona, a few miles from sedona, it was out in
   the desert, and considering the kentucky derby is about a
   mile and some, then sooner or later, as long as we didn't
   fall into an arroyo or a ditch, then we would slow down some,
   eventually  ---   as she ran, the wind was with us, and  I was still
   there, to let her know it was okay...till she needed guidance   ---  
   then I could direct some of the energy, and we would be together,
   a person with four legs, what some people need to understand is
   that if the horse  feels defensive then nature tells them to run,
   sometimes you have  to go with the horse before they can start to
    go with you...I don't  make them feel like they have to defend their
    selves, and I expect them to  use the brains they are born with...
    in other words, I teach them, rather than train them, and also
    I tend to like mares.... their survival impulses
           and appetite for living is strong.....)