Pulling Myself Up and Out

Crunchy dead Yule tree

Presents unwrapped

House boxed up

Waiting

Waiting

How to wait

In happiness

That’s what I want to know

How to live in the present

And find joy

And have

Gratitude

For what I experience and own and feel and live

Right

Now

Music

Dance

Friends

Entertaining

Watching movies

With

With

With

Those friends

And

Not

Alone

I promise

Uncovering

Self

From under

The snow

Time

With myself

Honoring

Understanding

Loving

Celebrating

With pink cheeks

And cold nose

Breath puffs in the air

I will

I will

I will

I will live

And love

Me.

I’ll be alone

And not alone

Rejoicing in the coolness of me.