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// Let Me Go 
// Story: Pony Poems / Songs 
// by Joseph Raszagal 
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Let Me Go
A pony poem as written by Joseph Raszagal

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Dear Princess Celestia
This is my final letter
Somewhere deep down
I always knew
That my last one would be to you
I feel that it's my time
And I hope that you don't feel
This request to be a crime

Because I know
You've done your best
To keep me strong
To keep me here
To always keep me near
Well past my days of yore
So long ago now
Those many suns and moons before

You sent me away to Ponyville
And there I made some friends
Five to be exact
But where I live on, their story ends
And it's hurt
Sometimes I've felt
That I couldn't keep going
But just this once
I feel it's finally true
My heart is slowing
My breathing, ragged
Every movement stings
Muscles disobeying even as I
Draft these words down onto parchment
But even as I die
Writing is second nature
So no matter how much it hurts
You will still receive this letter

I haven't sent you a friendship report
In far too many years
So it's high time that I write one
If anything, to quell your fears
Your Twilight Sparkle
Your student and protege
I've lived a storied life
And in the end, I've done okay
My life, it's stretched on
Much further than it ever should have been
And in my old age, I long
To see those five smiling faces again

Sometime I hear Pinkie's laughter
Out there in the ether
Sometimes I see a rainbow trail of light
Out of the corner of my eye
Sometimes Rarity's sincerity
And Fluttershy's never-ending kindness
Mixed with a glimmer of honesty
And they make me wonder how I ever
Even managed to say goodbye

The joy we shared
Never once impaired
Every bond ever hurt
Soon thereafter repaired
But now there are no more
Links for me to fix in our chain
Just as there seems
An eternal torrent to this rain
That I feel pouring down
Heavy upon my soul
We six were meant to make up
The parts to a single whole
And now I am without them
Laying upon my deathbed
All that I ask of you
Is the privilege to go ahead
To accept what comes naturally
And finally face my maker
The one garbed all in black
The pale rider, the life taker

I've tried my hardest to keep going
But I've reached the end of my road
And even now as I give in
I know I've still stuck to my moral code
It must seem like I'm simply leaving you
To shuffle off to a better place
Somewhere golden where my friends wait
Through the blue sky above
And through space
But I leave not out of greed
For all the joy awaiting me there
But rather, simply the fact that
So soon shall I cease to draw air
My Princess, the Sun
And my Princess, the Moon
I ask permission, though I know nonetheless
I will be leaving you both by the noon
Three hundred years
Is far too long for a mortal
It's a miracle I've held on
Just know in your hearts
And know in your minds
That I am proud to have weathered these years with you
And somehow stay strong

But you see
I can remember
Three special little fillies
Prancing along
And following in their wake
Every time a new song
I watched them grow up
And I watched them grow old
And I was there when each one
Finally grew quiet and cold
I just can't keep doing it
It's killing me inside
Witnessing the whole world around me
Wash away with the tide

So Princess Celestia
I ask of you this
Allow me to join them
And plummet into the ethereal abyss
You have the power to stop me
You could do it with ease
But Princess, my Princess
I beg of you, please

Let me go...

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Author's Notes: Personally, so long as the writing is handled well, I have no problem with Twilight becoming an alicorn. However, I will say this. The prospect of her outliving the five friends who helped shape her life and teach her the true magic of friendship... that depresses me. That makes me go and grab the bottle.