WELL DONE! IT’S OKAY by J. B. Hogan

IT’S OKAY by J. B. Hogan

It’s okay to go on,

to laugh, joke, even cry;

it’s completely natural,

it’s the way things work.

Don’t feel bad if you forget,

sometimes don’t remember;

it gets a little easier,

hour by hour, day by day.

It’s okay to enjoy your life,

to shop for groceries,

to get a coffee, to let it go.

Let it go, we all have to,

we all have to go, we all

have to forget, time doesn’t

stand still when we’re gone,

so just keep on living, live your

life – there’s nothing else for it,

you’ll remember when you

need to, have to, want to,

it’s all okay – to go on with

your life, to enjoy your life,

it’s completely natural,

it’s the way things work.

J. B. Hogan is a poet, fiction writer, and local historian. He has been published in a number of journals including the Blue Lake Review, Crack the Spine, Copperfield Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Well Read Magazine, and Aphelion. His twelve books include Bar Harbor, Mexican Skies, Living Behind Time, Losing Cotton, The Apostate and, most recently, Forgotten Fayetteville and Washington County (local history). He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.