By Tricia Veldman
Erase!
Clean slate
fresh start
new page
Didn’t like how I behaved
but to my past I’m not enslaved
Today’s a brand new day
and I can take it any kinda way
Don’t have to wait
to rejuvenate my fate
for the start of the year or the month or some arbitrary date
I can choose to start anew
with the snap
of my fingers
It’s a choice.
It’s a thought.
And while temptation lingers
to let old habits persist
I can resist
when I choose to insist
that a revamp is possible
in even ordinary instants
You see, I’ve come to see
every moment as pregnant
with possibility
to upgrade our thoughts and uplevel our lives
The past is the past
and looks like I survived
Thank you, old self, for that which I’ve learned
I’ll carry the lessons as the pages I turn
but I’m not locked into the same old routine
and if I can decide right now that I’d like to start clean
I can do it
On the inner, at least
I know reinvention takes time
and change is a beast
But with every thought
that rattles my brain
I have the power
to rewrite the refrain
No longer victim to my pain
And if I’d rather not go there again
I can erase!
Clean slate
fresh start
new page