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2024: From Release to Empowerment
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2024: From Release to Empowerment

Press Play | Reflecting on a year of using poetry to channel challenges and the transformations that came with it ✨
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Today’s Poem

Thirty

by Kellion Knibb


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This year was the year I released myself— 
burdens, expectations, self-inflicted pains 
left on the shelf as books I have read.

This year, I removed and left behind
a whole lot of me, clearing a path
for new vines to sprout,
for fruits to ripen.

This year brought new ideas,
rising from the wildfires of my youth—
flames I’ve had to put out, extinguished
so new trees, my forest, can thrive.
From ashes to renewal,
a duel within my many selves.

Fears, no longer fears,
but mirrors of tears
I no longer wished to cry.
Patterns, untruths—
I’ve learned to deny.

This year has been the one—
a coming to a loving,
where I’ve learned to rely
on myself.

A loving, true to my eye 
my heart, no longer confused
by lights that dim, not lit like mine.

A diamond—whether seen
or un-find.

A coming to a loving 
that doesn’t bruise to be right 
rooted in joy, 
needing no girl or boy.

A loving
that rues with the moon,
shares its delight,
turns even the hard parts
into light—
like the slow rise of a new day. 

Dawning into the morning of a new year 
empowered by beginnings 
listening for the meanings 
we know we will find here.

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Today’s Affirmation

I am empowered by beginnings. ✨

woman playing in rain in the countryside of Jamaica
My first tropical Christmas since 2011


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