Nah...thanks, nothing that can be broken

I’m not committing to a thing

that can be broken, chipped, or marred.

The year can take me anywhere -

unending oceans, city squares

cut up neat between their boulevards,

edges soft with leafsilk lining.

I’ll not be making resolutions -

anything that’s hard to keep.

I’ll be easy in my shoes and skin.

The year is free to take me in

or throw me out, and I’ll sleep

on its pebbled grounds, or oceans.

I’m not running so panic stricken,

wringing hands, trembling with fright.

The path’s a thin thread but I’m on it

and everywhere I stop to sit

there’s birdsong and bread. Some trick of light

makes it a destination.

I have to admit I am not a very systematic person, especially where things like goals and resolutions are concerned.  One year (and I can't even remember which, so deep in my past this is buried) I came up with some vague phrases - try something new, be more mindful, work on patience, STOP panicking! and called them my resolutions and they looked good even after the year was over, and so I never bothered to make any fresh ones. They have served me perfectly well for as long as I have had them.   

Last year try something new translated to a new recipe every month - looking back it feels way more energetic than I thought I could ever feel!  This year has whooshed past before I consciously got to grips with what new stuff I could try even. But I have ended up doing a bunch of things for the first time in default willing-spirit, woolly-brain, weak-flesh mode anyways, so I guess it's okay, I'm on track still. 

That's all I am going to do for 2017 too - stay on track most of the time, and veer off whenever it feels it'd be worthwhile, and stop anywhere that looks like it has some cool birdsong :)  What are you planning to do with 2017?