The Point Of The New Year

And the sharpness of memory

Brianna Belladonna Swallowing Swords. (Photo by Wanderlustwoman195 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>)

End of year mind totes up the failures:
all the “didn’t do’s” or “did badly’s,”
the errors of judgement, the dearth
of nerve, the not-doing, the not-loving
enough. That old sword swallower,
the mind, wallows in each memory.
She can’t stop caressing these knives,
So delicious in their piercing heat.