Pomegranate Seeds: A Year of Delight

And now is the season for gladness,
a time for embracing with courage all the changes in ourselves and in our world.
And at this time, it will be decided, and it will be sealed
Who will choose sadness, and who will hug life,
......
No. At this time, it will be decided, and it will be sealed,
Who will savour and live the sadness, giving it its time,
and who will try to pretend to send it away,
not knowing its power and its richness.
For sadness is where we grow,
and where we know the depth of our enduring love.
And at this time,
Let us decide, and let us seal,
That we'll feel to the heights and the depths each feel.
For texture is what makes this world, this world.
And sadness is a pomegranate seed, a ruby of potential,
whence beauty can grow.

Here's to feeling the feelings,
delighting in life,
to entering this new, clean year,
as the head, and not as the tail,
leading the way with our own clear direction,
and not just flapping along behind.
Here's to 613 sweet rubies in a pomegranate's orb.
May we delight in each one,
know that each is its own bright miracle.

Here's to looking optimistically
at how much needs to change,
knowing that anger, and disappointment
are the ruby pomegranate seeds
whence change can grow.

Here's to us!
to change!
to sadness!
to joy!
to song!
to hugs!
to life!