Going Forward
This new pace – to embrace it slowly,
with the care of experience and wisdom?
Or bring forth the wild abandonment of youth –
carry it with me into tomorrow?
… tomorrow being a different rhythm
from yesterday.
Perhaps, dancing forward with a salsa
or meringue in my step?
A pause to catch my reflection (seeing the
possibilities) and then
gliding on with renewed fervor – not
slowing down and waiting for the
years to add up/
add on
but calling out to them and saying,
“Join me, now! There is much to see.”
not
slowing down and waiting for the
years to add up/
add on
but calling out to them and saying,
“Join me, now! There is much to see.”
YES!!!
Thanks, SarahW – I definitely want to go into the next segment of my life with that as my mantra!! 🙂
This poem is so hopeful!
Thank you, Bavishya!!! I am wanting to carry hope into my later years!! 🙂
This is such a wonderful poem, making the choice to continue to see the world with youthful enthusiasm and embracing change, growth, and newness along the way!
Thank you, Tessa! I am hoping to keep that as my mantra as I move forward…
I love this. It’s so hard to capture or even hint at joy in a poem, but here it is, well rendered and full of hope.
Thanks, Caitlin!! I threaded retirement as a theme through some of the poems in the contest, but hadn’t anticipated doing this. The wonderful first prompt took me there and I just kept going… thank you again for a fabulous contest. I have felt so refreshed/renewed! 🙂