new beginnings – arbitrary

fresh vows we know we won’t keep

but every year we say we will

what if we picked one thing we truly want

and pasted it on the wall above our workplace

and designed steps, small steps that might get us there – or close

each week to work on a tiny step with that goal in mind

or forgotten in the busy-ness of life

only concentrating on one of the steps we’d designed

until we end up with our goal in sight

ahh, it would really be a happy new year then