Holding on at all costs

You say it's important.

To stay together,

to soldier on,

to see through.

I say it's painful.

And exhausting.

And barren.

What we don't see is what else.

Willpower alone will not cure all.

Neither chemicals, nor forgetting.

But what else is there?

Fleeting moments correct not for crushing weight of reality.

Memory doubles down like a glacier.

Maybe the pressure will form rare resources, or minerals.

but it's rather unpleasant down here.