Acceptance

Sign on the line - 
 life will be perfect. 
Drink this wine - 
 it’ll numb your pain. 
Stay busy. Distracted. 
 Avoidant. Inert. 
Change is coming -  
 this is going to hurt. 

No one talks of the pain 
 of coming alive, 
Telling old stories, 
 long forced to hide. 
Like emotional surgery  
 with no anesthetic; 
Cut to the core,  
 no softening with rhetoric. 

Those who know 
 never say; 
Trust, they won't 
  turn away. 
Their hands reach out -  
 you're not alone. 
Emerging from fire. 
 Acceptance delivers you
  home. 

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