Resilience

Over a month ago I had covid. I am still struggling with fatigue, constant muscle pain and brain fog. I feel unable to think half the time, never mind trying to write. But today, too tired to do much else, I lay in bed vaguely thinking about resilience (or lack of it) and reading a bit about various theories related to it. And wrote this piece.

Pull yourself together
and just get over it,
never really got there.
Forge on through
Grit your teeth strength,
gave up weakly.
Stressed
and compressed,
we choose to acknowledge
the forces
and constraints.
Choose just to be.
Present
and aware,
we face the mountains
head-on.
THAT
problem we perceive,
WHICH
we have the ability to reinterpret,
DOES NOT KILL US
we are still here.
Still responding
with conscious choices.
Surrounded by others,
we opt to take the next step
that
MAKES US STRONGER