Out of the Old

This poem was penned seven years ago, with someone wheelchair-bound in mind, as she faces the approach of another year, a new year. With so many having been housebound and restricted this past year, with so many still being so, may “Out of the Old” lift and inspire. From the My Kingdom collection, 2019. ~

Out of the Old

Yet another year, she thought,

Sitting in her chair, she thought.

Still she might, she thought,

Still she would, she thought,

Till she did, she thought —

Her soul, willed and wil...