sunday poetry (making a comeback!)

happiness is

the courage to open up your heart to something new
to give yourself the chance to heal
even when you don't feel up to it

the heavy yet self-assured sigh
before every unfamiliar decision
to remind yourself that you are alive
and worth more than you let yourself to believe

the desire to change
to be transformed and renewed
in mind and soul and body
because every new day is a gift
and life is but a breath