RESOLUTIONS
"Every year you make a resolution to change yourself. This year make a resolution to be yourself." Unknown
Yes, I know this is Groundhog’s Day, not New Year’s Day, and resolutions are generally reserved for New Year’s. However, it doesn’t matter to me anyway because I don’t believe in making resolutions. To me they seem like a method for setting oneself up for failure, and who needs that. Better to just try to be the best you you can be, and to be kind. Kindness shouldn’t have to be a resolution. It should be a given - and while you’re at it, remember to be kind to you.
RESOLUTIONS
Go ahead and make those resolutions
those promises to yourself that
come with every new year to kickstart
new habits and sweep out bad ones.
Go ahead and toss that last cigarette away
in front of witnesses and declare your
new purity in the public square
all the while knowing the half-pack
hidden under your socks in the bottom dresser drawer
is waiting patiently for your weak moment to appear.
Go ahead and swear off swearing in front of the kids
even as they’re thinking, “Fuck you, dad”
because it’s way too late
their blank slates already writ large with vulgar phrases
just waiting for the guts to say them to your face.
Go ahead and tell the world this bite of pumpkin
pie is the last sweet that will pass your lips
until the scale stops groaning when it see you
coming because this time, this time, those fifty
pounds shall be defeated even as you see the
Reese’s Christmas trees hiding in your jewelry box,
your favorite gems when times get tough
and just one bite will change it all and no one
will even know when you go ahead and soothe
your pain with white chocolate and peanut butter
sitting on the bathroom floor
in tears
hating your
weak self.
Never make them. Can't keep them!
Same here Kathleen. Just setting myself for failure so I quit the resolution game. Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.