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Their loss
Someone decides early what you're worth and stops looking. You read it as a verdict and set about correcting it. It was never a verdict.
Acceptance
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Nothing to blame
Most of what you're carrying today doesn't have a face. The timing, the weather, the way the week landed. You can't argue with the weather.
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Rounded edges
There's a whole vocabulary for loss that never mentions losing anything. Words with the edges rounded off leave a door propped open. The plain one closes it.
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Falling away
Some things fall out of step with your life and aren't meant to come with you. Letting go hurts, but a clean hurt now beats dragging it for years.
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Fixed point
The morning has a limit. The story you keep telling about it doesn't.
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Some days
Some days don't hand you anything. No moment, no needle-mover. A life full of those days would be empty. But not every day has to earn its keep.
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The tax
You took the work because it was there. It paid. Now it's a grievance. The inconvenient parts came with the convenient ones. That's the tax on saying yes.
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Both hungry
The parable says to starve one wolf. But both keep howling. Maybe peace isn't about winning. It's about sitting with what's there.
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Already written
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