Say Yes to All of It

You didn't choose the year you were born, the body, the name You didn't choose the accident, the loss, the disease, the shame Half of what shaped you arrived before you had a say And spending your whole life fighting that is a heavy way to stay

Say yes to all of it, not because it was fair Say yes to all of it, the whole weight you had to bear Just laying down one useless fight, the one against what's already behind Keeping the fight that actually builds something, still alive

There's the fight to grow, to build, to change what's still in motion And there's the useless fight against a wave that's already broken on the shore You can swim in the second one forever and get nowhere at all Or you can turn, and swim in the first one instead, and stand tall

Say yes to all of it, not because it was fair Say yes to all of it, the whole weight you had to bear This doesn't mean loving the pain for its own sake It means refusing to spend your whole life fighting what's already made

The hardest years might turn out to be the ones that built the most The wound might be exactly where the strength decided to host No fixed rule here, no promise it works out clean But resisting what already happened has never once changed a single thing

Say yes to all of it, not because it was fair Say yes to all of it, the whole weight you had to bear Yes to the parts you'd choose again without a second thought Yes to the parts that nearly broke you, and taught you what they taught

Say yes to all of it, the storm and the sunrise both at once Say yes to all of it, and watch what happens Because you choose it, freely, never because you're told Because it's already yours, and yours is worth holding whole