You Can Be Whatever You Want to Be

Written in script and framed in pink is a poem, a gift recently rediscovered that feels all too appropriate to share given the beginning of the new year.

For winter is the time of dreams.

You Can Be Whatever You Want to Be
by Donna Levine

There is inside you
All the potential to be whatever
You want to be—
All of the energy to do
Whatever you want to do.

Imagine yourself as you would like to be,
Doing what you want to do,
And each day, take one step
Towards your dream.

And though at time it may seem too difficult to continue,
Hold on to your dream.
One morning you will awake to find that you are the person
You dreamed of—
Doing what you wanted to do
Simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential
And to hold on to your dream.

Thank you to my Aunt Marsha for the reminder.