New Years Resolutions

New Year’s Resolutions

She always had a list—a notebook full of promises,
A number on the scale, a number in the bank, a number of clients to take.
Each year, a hopeful heart and steady pace,
But life is fragile, it’s never quite what we dreamed of.

The news came, the sharpest sting,
A diagnosis that would change everything.
The weight she’d worked so hard for was now achieved,
It mattered so little now.
Between her screams, she learned her debt would be forgiven.
Time came to a standstill, the pain kept her present, and she wondered how she came to find herself here.

She learned, in the end, as we all must know,
When we stop to see,
What matters most is just to be