New Year Resolution

It's New Year's Day today - 1st of January 2025. 2024 has been a rocky year revealing my utmost strength in face of adversity and vulnerabilities and voids that still stir me in face of love. 

Gratitude for all. 

Yesterday Paashu asked me what is my resolution for this year. So here it is:

Howls of wind

Splashes of rain

Pound the earth today,

My heart resounding 

With the pit pit patter

Is trying to configure

The call of Nature;

Is it trumpet

Being blown 

On start of year this day

Pulling me out 

Of year long reverie

Urging to resume,

Recommence my march;

Or, is it a wail for truce 

Urging, beseeching to let go

Of all that comprise

Unfathomable dance of life,

And instead

Take deep dive into 

Unknown Eternity?

In wisdom, I take heart

I choose compromise 

With dramas that unfold

Endlessly into the living's lap-fold;

And so I rest, 

With Self on hold

In stillness I chant 

To my wearied self -

Inaction 

Is my resolution 

For Light. 

PS: inspiration for this resolution is this verse of Quran:

Light upon Light; Allah guides to His Light whomever He wishes. Allah draws parables for mankind and He has knowledge of all things.

Al-Nur, 24:35