an end of the year poem.

my dear friend Lindsay challenged me to write a poem summarizing 2008... she gave me some rules:
1. be detailed (I tried)
2. Make it poetic it wording (tried, I'm not great at this...if I pay too much attention, then I go crazy)
3. repeat "no time to wait, here's to 2008" throughout the poem (I kinda did this)

here is what I came up with....

1 January 1, 2008
P.F. Changs I wish I hadn’t ate
This situation I did create
I should have resolved to just lose weight, but alas,
No time to wait, here is to dear old 2008

2 News about March brought me the most tears yet
The ambush of sadness I will never forget
I hate that she was so alone, though I can relate
But knowing my Father will never forsake
Grieving doesn’t wait, which is what happened in 2008

3 I teach school and for April I await
To learn about E.S.L. is my fate
I get to travel to N.Y.C.
Foreshadowing, I hope, my future degree
Not to restate but it sure doesn’t wait, I’m telling the story of 2008

4 May comes and my babies finish KK
Being their teacher made all of my days
But it was time for me to go away
So I left Memphis for the Sunshine State
Only the beginning of my moves in 2008

5 In July, a monster I do meet
Dealing with Bridezilla was a huge feat
The wedding over, surely did elate
And future decisions I did debate

6 August came and to D.C. I went
Hoping for awhile to feet content
No big job came and I wondered what that meant
My soul, in its lonely state, did torment

7 Much of the time I held in my tears
To let them out, I thought, might let win my fears
Instead I wrote letters, from my heart I was straight
Asking the Lord, how long must I wait?

8 Friendships went more than they came
I often wonder how certain ones remain
I feel stuck opening up for fear that they’ll leave
Unable to be grateful for the time I do receive

9 Vulnerability, I hear, is risky but worth it
But deep within my heart it is hard for me to do it
Stability, security, I want to be fixed
But in one spot for now I cannot exist

10 October brings me “home” to teach
Enabling my mind once again to reach
That place where I find joy and being with people, innate
I wonder if soon my previous notions will reinstate
A welcome relief, here in 2008

11 My birthday month, twenty-four seems so old
Although waiting for so so much to unfold
Dad comes to visit, Mom shows up, too, and tightly I hold
As if to remember what my heart feels like not cold
Their coming to see me is their best surprise to date
With Thanksgiving I learn that to Wheaton I will go, and on time, not late
Which leaves us less time to wait, as we near the finish of 2008

12 December is here and sadness remains
Sometimes I cannot shake the pain that flows through my veins
I look to the future and try to shed the past
But worry that my efforts will not long last
2009, I only hope can bring
More love for a Savior for whom I will cling
I cannot make promises for what my actions will dictate
Only that there is no more time to wait, for the end has come for 2008