Poet’s Corner – New Year’s Day

Start the New Year
Wherever you are, 
no need to hang your days
on the nail of a calendar 
written by someone else.

Your New Year can start in August
in the middle of endless, unspooling,
relentless days. In February with one 
foot out the door, when you consider
giving up, but then you don’t.

If your resolution is to change
or alter something, or to finally 
let go, that’s enough. Enough
is all it takes to start a revolution.  
Enough is also what you are, 

the flip side of that word coin. Choose
what you need for your fresh start –
whether it’s courage or love, solitude,
or rest, forgiveness or to forgive, as 
you walk into your brand New Year.

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