Acceptance VS Complacency

The act of taking or receiving...
     a back & forth of believing or favoring.
Quite simply, acceptance is exhausting...
     It is, like most things, temporary.

Everyone says let go of the small stuff,
     Pick your battles. But what if you're
already weary from the war, lacking
   energy to determine size or conflict.

Acceptance or tolerance are just ways
     of giving in, avoiding the bitter truth
That nothing will ever be the same again.

Control, or its absence, force us to accept
     things that are unpleasant or contrary.

Lower your expectations to breathing
     & blinking so it's easier to accept continued misery.

So to reiterate, acceptance is fleeting &
    contradictory. 
Oh how I wish compromise or reason
     could override complacency.