One by one,
your eyes they open.
Day to day
reveals before you.
Thoughts become
a breadth of questions.
Answers never break
the fast in time.
Blinking out the last of slumber,
dreams still on the tips
of your fingers.
A quick glance around
reveals familiar vessels;
thank God for small miracles.
Stretch and yawn
and try to shrug off
the skin of a long dead yesterday.
Tasting only bitter ashes,
even if the last thing you tasted
was the sweetest.
But that was yesterday
and now,
light reveals;
start all over again.
Did what you did.
Does it matter today,
or do you have to do it
all over again?
Facing something peaceful,
or is it war
again today?
So beautiful.
Too bad it’s off to work
and all you want to do
is stay
and play old games,
but that’s just the thing;
it wasn’t even a thing
that long ago?
What are you dragging in
from yesterday?
Is this a new day,
or an old tomorrow?
Shake it off as best as you can.
Find your feet,
then find your clothes.
Something quick to eat,
shower,
then you’re out the door.
Into a restraining world,
only as free as you let it be.
I wonder if you’d be amazed
if I showed you another way?
If I showed you that in your hand,
you’ve been dragging around
all your yesterdays.
I wonder if you’d understand,
if I told you to give away
everything?
All that’s holding you back
is you.
Open your eyes,
decide
to be new.
You have to start somewhere,
otherwise the game plays you.
Just let go.
Let that first breath
of today
be for you.
HG – 2018
