as we approach the eve
of ushering out the old
and to welcoming the new
let us make a vow
you and I
to a year of living dangerously
throwing caution to the wind
living with reckless abandon
here’s to a year
dangerously wild
and deliciously free
here’s to living dangerously open
to all that is good and wonderful
to being dangerously kind
without reason or reward
here’s to dangerously stepping out
without fear
or maybe more to feeling the fear
and to stepping out anyway
here’s to dangerously accepting
when kindness is shown or love is given
here’s to dangerously
offering both
to oneself
and to recognizing, who needs it most
here’s to dangerously
letting it all go
releasing the wanting, and the worrying and the wait
and instead to a gentle
inviting, and acknowledging and appreciating
here’s to the delicious freedom
that comes from
simply breathing in Peace
and then
to breathing out
Love
here’s to cautiously acknowledging
the wrongs of the world
but choosing instead to look for
light
here’s to recklessly abandoning
the need for score cards
when it comes to those we love
and instead to cherishing all those things
that make them wonderful
here’s to delights and desserts and desires
here’s to luscious and lovely and luminous
here’s to friendships and frailty
and familiar
here’s to open hearts and open minds
and open … windows
here’s to utter Joys and absolute bliss
here’s to sending ‘I love you’s’ that may never come back
but to leave them floating anyway,
just above the clouds …
so you’ll know where to find them
here’s to being brave
and compassionate
and sincere
here’s to dangerously showing yourself
to the world
to wearing your heart on your sleeve
to wadding through uncertainty
and to walking in sunshine
here’s to honesty, acceptance
and Love
and here’s to you my friend
May you have a
most
dangerous year ♥
.. whew, suddenly that seems like a lot of drinks …