To Let Go

1. To let go is like asking me to get an A in algebra class.
2. It's impossible, unimaginable. 
3. To let go, I find myself finding it hard to do,
4. especially when everything we experienced once made us stronger.
5. It's like a rope, I'm gripping firmly.
6. How can someone expect me to just forget? Let memories slide away.
7. All of those memories when we laughed and teased each other,
8. it's hard to forget one moment to the next.
9. "Memories, you must stay!" I say as if on replay. 
10. It's not fair, it's not right to ask me to begin again.
11. To let go,
12. let memories slip through my hands, like when children play tug of war,
13. is never going to happen ever again.
14. I won't listen to the rest, not even my best friends
15. I won't question myself, nope, not again. Even if it turns out bad.
16. Next time I won't be afraid to fall. 
17. I won't let go 
18. of the memories running through my head.
19. I won't let go because to taste the sweet sensation of happiness,
20. I should know what misery brings.
21. And because I'm scared of misery, I won't ever know if I'm really happy.
22. I find myself protecting my heart more than necessary,
23. I know it's wrong but it's a force of habit that I haven't learned to shed
24. because I've been broken before since I'm made out of glass.
25. But to let the rope of bad slip away, I must also let go of the best.
26. My memories are the beating heart hidden underneath the floorboards.
27. Oh, to let go!
28. To let go. 

Lines 1 and 3 I tried using anaphora which is the repetition of a word or phrase in the beginning of a line which would be the poem's title, "To let go..."

Line 1 is a simile because I'm comparing how something impossible, me getting an A, is just as impossible as letting go of some of the best and the worst memories I've had with someone.

Line 5 you see apostrophe because I'm talking to this rope that isn't actually there which happens to symbolize something as well.

Line 6 you see when I begin using a "rope" as a symbol. The rope can be identified as a symbol because I don't want to let this "rope", a rope of memories, go. You see me talking about this "rope" other times in my poem like in line 11, I don't outwardly say it but it's implied because a rope if what children usually use to play tug of war. In line 18, 25, and finally line 27.

Line 8 is where I tried to use apostrophe because I'm directly addressing something that isn't present, which are the memories. "Memories" would be the personified abstraction

Line 11 you see visual imagery because you can picture children actually playing tug of war which can also symbolize the inner struggle I'm having which is should I let go of these memories, both the good and the bad, because it's best.

Line 18 there is personification because I gave "memories" a human characteristic which is the ability to run. "Memories" don't actually have the ability to run because they're not actually a living creature with the legs to be able to run. 

Line 24 you have a metaphor which is comparing myself to glass because I identify myself as fragile.

Line 28 is an allusion. It's an allusion because in the story, "A Tell-Tale Heart", the unnamed author hides the dismembered bodies of the old man he lives with underneath the floorboards. He's then haunted by the heart of the old man. And what I'm saying here is that my memories, both the good and the bad, are haunting me.