New day.
Trying to
keep it new
is a challenge.

The past keeps
attacking,
creeping in,
Interrupting

today’s today
and tommorow’s
tomrrorow.
What to do?

Don’t want to
forget lessons
from yesterday
and the present.

It’s important
to remember where
you want to be
today and tomorrow.

Remember also who
you are, and
allow yourself
to live

your life
with joy,
thanks
and wonder.

 

Janet Cormier is a painter, writes prose and poetry, and performs comedy. Janet prefers different and original over pretty. She loves collecting stuff, but cleaning not so much. Janet also talks to strangers. A lot. Her column appears weekly on Oddball Magazine.