no time to surrender

you’re too busy today for despair

my love, 

I can see by the exact way you
are holding the tears back 
and by how your bottom lip
trembles every time I ask you
if you’re okay 

that

you are planning
on giving up today

- I’m sorry, but it turns out 
that you just don't have the time to surrender today

~ instead

you're going to be 
too busy with 

counting all of the people
who wil…