Make Lists

Make an adventures-to-have list
make it tell the truth about you
make it long and take your time
make it travel across the world
stop in every corner
make it choose your favorite foods
and foods you've never tasted but should
make it about jumping--
bungee jumping, double-dutch jumping rope
jumping from planes, jumping into the fire,
jumping out of bad situations--
make it about flying--
flying off into the wild blue yonder
make it about figuring out what "yonder"
looks like for you
make it about flying kites, flying your colors
being true to your colors, flying your hopes
being true to your hopes, flying in a space
ship and see where flying gets you
Make an adventures list about
adventures and the way life always is one
and how trying to play it safe doesn't make
you stay in one place, it just makes it harder
to enjoy the journey--
make it about how life doesn't wait
make it about how waiting is overrated
make it about how making lists
sometimes keeps you from actually
doing what's on the list
then get up from it and get to it
check them off one or two at a time
and remind yourself: this list
is only a starter
you'll get better at lists
as you get better at checking them off.

© Valerie Bridgeman
January 3, 2013