New Year's Resolution

Each year in late December
I think of what I’ll resolve
To change my life in this new coming year.
I’ll ponder and remember
There’s problems left to solve;
And vices that I’ll never shed, I fear.

New diets that I’ve found
Are something I should try
For losing weight is what I need to do.
But, I’ve not lost a pound
Yet, though, “I’m fat”, I cry
July means that now half a year is through.

Sometimes, it’s not my weight,
But spending way too much
That I decide must be gotten in control.
I’ll start the year just great
But find sales, and deals and such
And, soon the monthly bills begin to roll.

My skills to organize
Or spend more time with friends
Have in some years passed topped my “to do” lists.
To perform exercise
And get in shape depends
On if my procrastination still exists.

Guess I should take to task
These promises I’ve made
And try to keep the bonds of this contract.
Then if someone should ask
I wouldn’t feel betrayed
By answering that stamina I’d lacked.

Next year on New Year’s Eve
I will not say a word
No promise of improvement I will make.
I will not self deceive
Nor make a pledge absurd
That by July I’d know was a mistake.

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