Acceptance

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It's time to take a break.

It's time to give over.

It's time to find acceptance

in your heart and in your soul.

Admit you are not special,

you have no great purpose, 

you merely exist.

It's time to let go of fantasies,

and embrace reality's confines.

Realise you will never be

all you thought could be.

Quell the misery you feel

at your dreams not coming true.

Relinquish all you hope before

it starves you of contentment.

Your time is running out.

There is no love, no laughter,

no joy in believing

you can be more than you are.

Like a fool you bought wholesale

the delusion that everyone matters.

If you were to die tomorrow,

no-one would miss you,

and what little you've achieved

will soon be forgotten.

In these last few years left to you,

live for the sake of living,

love for the sake of loving,

create for the sake of creating,

and expect nothing.

I know this to be true.

Yet still I struggle to let go,

especially of dreams and hope ...

It is like giving up breathing.

  Inspired by a prompt from Jill Badonsky in The Muse Is IN Writing Club.