entering a door Poetic Bloomings

 One Piece at a Time

 

I put together jig saw puzzles

to train my brain

to take things

one piece at a time.

 

You don’t climb a ladder

by standing at the bottom

and leaping up

to the top step.

 

And you don’t

keep changing ladders

in hopes that one day

you can do it.

 

I used to enter the door

of a new year

with the change-the-ladders-

to-make-it-to-the-top mentality.

 

Every year,

I would redo my schedule

in hopes

I’d accomplish something.

 

Then it dawned on me,

January 1^st is only one day

after December 31^st.

I didn’t have to redo my goals.

 

So, I put together jigsaw puzzles

and have a little faith

that as I take the next step

I’ll eventually reach my goals.

 

Like the appearance of impossibility,

when staring down 2,000 pieces,

knowing it will form a whole picture,

I enter the new year, one piece at a time.