What needs to happen
In order for it to be okay
For you to live?
How much money
Or acclaim
Or pain?
How many likes
Before you deserve
Happiness?

Do trees deserve the rain?

What will it take to win?
What does it mean to be right?

Does the moon earn the sunlight
That we in turn earn each night?

Nothing works that way.
Lies are exhausting.

If it is all just one
Maybe trying to win
is stepping outside the unity
Which is an automatic loss.

If it is all just love
Maybe trying to be right
Is wrong.

I know you are tired
But you do not have to be.
You are not meant to be.
That’s why it feels so wrong
To work so hard
At something that gives you no pride.

It does not have to be this way.
It is not meant to be this way.

Repeat after me:
I have decided
To enjoy
My life.

You know
What happens
When you play
By their rules.

You have been doing it
For so long.
So long.

What happens
If you let go of rules
And just play?

Remember?

Of course there is work to do.
Enjoy it.
You are here to grow.
You have to grow.
You are meant to grow.

Does it grow you
Even if there is growing pain?
Enjoy it.

If not,
Say it again
And make a choice.