2023 in a Poem

Jocelyn Elizabeth

30 Dec 2023 — 1 min read

Today is day 3 of Beth Kempton ‘s Winter Writing Sanctuary, something I’ve looked forward to the past few years, since I started writing again. I’ve been avoiding writing my year in review and a look ahead, so when today’s prompt was “Reflecting: Measuring a year”, I knew that the words would spill out of me, or at least that I could drag them out. And truly, once I started writing, the words didn’t stop, but I have other things to get to today, most importantly, painting with my son, and I had to leave the longer reflection incomplete. So for now, here we are, with the story of my year in a poem.

—

one foot in the past,

while the other reaches

for a place to find balance,

and collect all the pieces

to search for alignment

through energetic pathways,

feels so much harder

when the body is inflamed

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