My New Year's Resolution In Poetry

Dare To Blossom, Dare To Bloom

  

As last year passed,

The New draws near,

Let the pains remain in the past,

And I will open up and be made clear

To only be me!

And not someone, that someone else

wants me to be.

I am no longer afraid,

To be the best of me,

To let myself be free;

 

I will no longer close myself tight,

When I want to retreat.

I will fight, fight, fight!

To continue to blossom,

And not give into doom,

But to flourish with all my might.

I will prosper; I will bloom!

                                                ~  The Sassy Countess

The following by Anais Nin. 

I thought it very appropriate for my New Year's resolution.

And then the day

Came when the risk

To remain tight

In a bud was

Greater than

The risk it took

To bloom.

~ Anais Nin.