Briefing: New Year’s Resolution

Just for a moment
I was in the moment:
No past, no present, no future.

Complete awareness,
No separation
Between “me” and “it.”

All my life
I’ve lived for
Such moments,
Thinking they were
Times when everything
Went perfectly for me.

But this one occurred
Amidst great anguish,
Sorrow, depression,
And self-depreciation.

Suddenly,
I saw.
The spell was broken.
“Happiness happens in
This moment,” I thought.

After writing this,
I noted, “New Year’s Eve,
How appropriate.”

New Year’s resolution:
Look nowhere else for
Happiness but this moment.

(Tall order!—Still ambitious
After all these years.
What foolishness!)