They: played by my therapist

Act I Family

They said let them go

But they were mine to hold 

Since birth I carried their weight

There wasn't an ounce I couldn't take

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Act II Family Matters

They said let them go

But they were mine to hold

As mother, not sister or daughter

Amber? Never knew her so forgot her

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Act III Family Matters Less

I had to let them go

All the bags I tried to hold

Return to myself, learn my weight

Set myself free to grow for my own sake