11/25/08 365

365 days approaches slowly
as I enter the home stretch,
and it only now occurs to me
that 365 days mean one year.

I've spent one whole year
watching myself say the same things,
react over and over in the same ways,
and continue to tell myself

that this is passing.
This is hard times that I am working out.
This is a brief and painful healing process.
Only I haven't gotten very far, have I?