This Year (for 2026)

By jennifer

Tue, 30 Dec 2025

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This Year (for 2026)

Jennifer Pickup, 30.12.2025

This year, there will be no more broken hearts,

I will place ceasefires on sick relations,

Refuse any further career departs,

And I won’t be ill for celebrations.

This year, I will not begin new courses,

There will be a ban on hip replacements,

I won’t put down any treasured horses,

I can’t indulge more living displacements.

This year, there will be no more life resets,

I will spend less time in hospital chairs,

Learn to embrace today without regrets,

I shan’t be weighted down with heavy cares.

This year, I will stop taking on too much,

I’ll rediscover long lost common sense,

Cease seeking empty symbols of good luck,

For they cannot ward off cruel consequence.

This year, there will be positivity,

I won’t stomach any family deaths,

Replace funerals with festivity,

I shan’t be witnessing any last breaths.

This year, not one more thing will start to ache,

Each day I’ll walk ten thousand steps or more,

Stop eating my pain before the scales break,

And quit drinking because my soul is sore.

This year, there’ll be unicorns and rainbows,

All of the clouds will have silver linings,

I’ll tell you a secret nobody knows:

These are the fruits of recent divinings.

This year, all pigs will fly and fish climb trees,

There will be sunshine even on dark days,

We will make only happy memories,

And the year will pass in a rosy daze.

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Comments

It sounds as if 2025 has been

Permalink Submitted by insertponceyfre... on Tue, 2025-12-30 19:45

It sounds as if 2025 has been a daunting one for you Jennifer. I hope the pigs fly high for you (and all of us!) next year

It would be wonderful but

Permalink Submitted by Tom Brown on Wed, 2025-12-31 14:54

It would be wonderful but many of the things you say one has no control over, so no resolutions. Although we can, choose our attitudes! And our point of view if must.

To be blindly making only happy memories, and that the year will pass in a rosy daze. That isn't going to happen.

All the best I think you're starting on the right foot! Tom

Positivity!

Permalink Submitted by Frances Macaula... on Fri, 2026-01-02 03:57

Best wishes for 2026 to all who participate and read this wonderful site.

Let's all look forward with hope.

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