She hath wings

Notebook ready,

A list is made;

Timeline, SMART goals –

Mood is frayed!

How to step over

A sizeable rut?

Food the medicine,

For the wounds that cut.

Then there was injury-

So much of that;

Nothing was going to

Whisk away fat!

Well-meaning family

Didn’t understand ;

Circumstances seemed to be

Out of my hand.

The will to change existed-

Just a really bad run;

Yet somehow I’d finish ,

What was begun.

The children were keen

To see me recover-

It would have been a dream

To have an energetic mother

Yet the years crept by

And tears fell a-plenty

Nothing would motivate;

I ran on empty!

Slowly, something

Now starts to emerge-

The past being processed

I get the urge

To throw off this weight,

And find my true face-

No better situation

Than this time and space.

Little by little,

(Consistency the key!)

I find this path

Is freeing me.

Not for praise

Or stealing the scene,

Living more fully

Is what makes me want ‘lean’!

Today is a new day

With much hope within it

I’m going to choose well

Until the time that I get fit-

On and on,

This journey will go;

No doubt with a change

My heart will soon grow.

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Ready to receive

All that life has in store,

You and I can change

So we can live more.

© M.Patterson 17.8.22