Acceptance

This can’t be happening,

I refuse to believe, 

In life’s harsh reckoning

From which I need reprieve

Is it too much to ask,

Is there room to be blunt?

I’m tired of wearing this mask

and not getting what I want.

Sometimes it seems

My life has been cursed,

I pick the wrong dreams,

And my timing’s the worst.

I run hard but don’t feel,

A hamster hooked on vice,

Stuck on this wheel, 

And drunk on device. 

Just when things appear

To begin bending my way,

Cruel irony does steal

All light from my day. 

All of this strife

Piles in unending stack

For when I push life,

Life pushes back. 

Now all that’s left 

for me to do

Is accept I’m bereft,

Without structure or glue.

To accept the unacceptable,

This is the key.

But it doesn’t seem possible, 

In this wheel of misery.

Surrender to the moment’s flow,

Not to the tales spun from the past.

Release the fight, just let it go,

You’ll find your freedom here at last.

Resisting only feeds the pain—

to curse the rain and beg the sky,

Denies the gifts we stand to gain,

For acceptance gives us wings to fly.