My 2021 UnResolutions
A poem I wrote for a poetry circle in December 2020.
Clean your house
Organize all the cabinets
Drop 10 pounds this year.
Drop 20 pounds this year.
All this busyness dresses itself up
as the go-to operandum for human improvement
at the start of each year
But one by one,
as it goes
each goal slowly slips away
the workout equipment gathering dust
the tower of books left unread
all the new hobbies you said you’d get to
burying itself deep in procrastination and unimportance.
as it happened the year before that, and the year before that.
Crowding your mind with unfinishedness.
What if we tried a different approach this time?
Shift the paradigm a bit?
Instead of all these shiny goals,
which sound so nice
but feel so wrong when
they remain incomplete
we give ourselves this year
to simply breathe and be?
Rather than a goal,
how about we let this new year be an experience?
A resolution quickly strips the present moment
of any significance
and leaves us scrambling, grasping,
yearning for the future
while the present fades into obscurity
Let us greet each moment-to-moment
as a simple truth:
that who we are
right now
is to be celebrated
and any endgame we have
will meet us as we live.
Clear your mind.
Shift your thinking.
Drop all the heaviness
that living in the future carries
and settle into simple consciousness.
About the Creator
Breyanna Wilson
Have you ever felt that you had to figure out life yourself? Well I'm here to tell you that we're meant to traverse life together. Find my thoughts, tarot tips and more here. If you want more from me, check out www.breyannawilson.com.
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