Acceptance came slowly.
Hard won, all teeth and nails.
With deep, shaking breaths that couldn't
catch enough air
to fill the vacuum inside...
Acceptance started on the closet floor, in a pile.
Shifted in the ether--
Suddenly sometimes a monolith
that stood hard against my doubt
only to vanish with unbidden memories...
Acceptance is capricious.
Like a cheap justification
Uttered thoughtlessly on a midnight drive;
Half-remembered half-truths
lost amid the hedging...
Acceptance is here,
But wavers still sometimes.
In that moment between dreams
It must will itself to life
like so many other resolutions.
[Keep Following.]
