Ring Out the Old...Welcome the New...
This was written on December 31, 2013, at a poetry workshop at Healing Ground...words I needed to get out...to write...to share... in preparation for beginning a new year. retrospective 2013 Birthed in heartbreak, this yew year... Awash with tears, the way ahead unclear. Choices and decisions ride upon the waves of uncertainty, Yet choose I must and choose I did... As far away, the distant shore seemed out of reach... but stroke by stroke it nearer came 'til loving arms reached out to take my trembling hand and lead me home. The journey long, the path uneven bramble-torn... yet on I walked...stumbled...fell... began again...despite the bruises and the scrapes... ...