Shedding our skin

It's December already

I've been alive for over thirteen years

over thirteen years of learning and growing

making mistakes and accomplishing feats

of finding myself and uncovering layers in not only myself

but other people I know.

2025 is the year of the snake

2026 is the year of the horse

we shed off the values that we don't want to come with us into the future

and run freely into the new year

shedding our snakeskins and galloping away

it's an interesting way to think about it.

We have to keep moving forward

because time doesn't wait

it goes and never stops

it drags you in its path

but maybe it doesn't have to drag us

maybe we can walk alongside it

hand in hand

each step in sync

shedding the past

embracing the future.

Posted in response to the challenge Year End.

Calico Frost

VT

13 years old

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