Absolution

Absolution

Jennifer Pickup, 01.01.2025

This year I will not make any resolution

Simply to fail at it in the execution,

For my vices I do not seek a solution -

From them I need nor wish any separation!

In some of them I find a true consolation,

While in others rather more a compensation.

This year I will enter without hesitation,

Shedding historical things that bring vexation,

Cultivating my long lost imagination,

Worshipping at the altar of desperation,

From my muses beg a new consideration, 

Seeking reaping from artistic revelation.

This year I will undergo an evolution,

Plot escape from grief’s lingering persecution,

I’ll seek nothing less than total absolution,

Capturing words in luxuriant profusion!

(Revelling tonight in my New Year delusion,

Until the morning light reveals the illusion.)