The card here is Surrender, from the Threads of Fate Oracle. I find this notion both easy and incredibly difficult - it’s so hard not to fight when the world is attacking you, but sometimes all you can do is surrender and persist to fight another day.
I wanna be a fighter
When the world is hard and dark
To kick and claw and beat
Just to prove that I have heart
(Chorus)
Surrender to the flow
The winds that roar and blow
Surrender, save your skin
So you can fight again
I wanna be a fighter
But what if there’s no foe?
Or its size cannot be matched
By fists and harder blows?
(Chorus)
Surrender to the flow
The winds that roar and blow
Surrender, save your skin
So you can fight again
When standing firm will only break me
With no relief in sight
Sometimes the only answer
Is to surrender to their might
(Chorus)
Surrender to the flow
The winds that roar and blow
Surrender, save your skin
So you can fight again
(Bridge)
There are other kinds of strength
To bend in the wind like trees
To absorb and then release unharmed
To flit high upon the breeze
(Chorus)
Surrender to the flow
The winds that roar and blow
Surrender, save your skin
So you can fight again
Like water, smooth and fluid
A ubiquitous persistence
Carving channels through the rock
Without no obvious resistance
(Chorus)
Surrender to the flow
The winds that roar and blow
Surrender, save your skin
So you can fight again
@rwhosings Feb 2022
Really intriguing idea. Reading this, I can almost hear it in two separate voices. The urgent, idealistic voice rough and ready to brawl, and the wise, tactical, voice advising surrender.