Twenty-Fifteen #22

Good bye twenty fourteen,

And your ups and downs

The smiles and tears

The sights and sounds.

I made some mistakes

But in some things I shined

Tried to keep up with everything

But still fell behind.

Now it's twenty fifteen

And one thing is clear

It's a chance to let go 

And start fresh this new year.

Caren E. Salas

Prompt #22 - Release

Maybe

A hopeless and optomistic dreamer I

Raise my champagne glass up high

To toast the coming year.

Maybe I won't make the same mistakes

Or break the promises I never made

To those who swear I swore,

But I don't remember any more.

 

A chronic and procrastinating dreamer I

Gaze out at the somewhat cloudy sky

To find my destiny there.

Maybe if I could just play the game

From start with zero points

For once as I was getting going,

And I'd get ahead and not be owing.

 

An exhausted, underestimating dreamer I

Sometimes find I've bit off quite

The challenging buffet. What can I say?

Maybe this will be the meal

That satisfies without the consequential

Calories or price, and dessert for free.

This could be the time...maybe.

 

 

Caren E. Salas

 

 

photo by William Salas