Love Today

Dear Yesterday,

I’m grateful

for the memories and lessons,

for experience and joys

beyond all measure

 

Dear Tomorrow,

Here’s my promise:

you will not go to waste;

I’ll unwrap you with the care

reserved for treasure

 

I’m thankful to you both

for you frame all that I am;

I gain the wisdom

coming either way

 

I know this to be true,

that the present would be naught

if not for past and future.

Love,

Today

Author's Note

Some phrases that were rattling around...

captcha: oneness

Reviews

[Angi]

How do you spill out the stuff that seems so complicated in such easy terms. Yesterday holds some big old thorns and tomorrow holds so much unknown. I am trying, Rita. I am. Good message here, girl. Angi~

[Rita L. Sev]

Ah, but yesterday holds roses, too... and there is a garden of new flowers that awaits... I think to be a teacher, you have to be positive about the past and the future. So we'll call it an occupational hazard! :) Thanks, Angi!

[Heather Burns]

very nice thought on yesterday and today. well planned, nice presentation. I like this poem very much. good work

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you, Heather!

[Sami Khalil]

A great read and write...Thank you for posting...:)

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you, Sami! :)

[Sami Khalil]

You are welcome...:)

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Memories are great comforts, the future is the great unknown, but here and now is where it is at for it will be gone in a flash so enjoy it.

This is a great pep talk for the heart, mind and soul.

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you, Dale - trying to always live in the moment... :)

[Zahra]

Wonderfuly positive piece, beautifully done. Very nice Rita

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you, Voice!

[Maryam]

I love the thought that went into this piece. Forming into a letter really helped carry through how tomorrow and yesterday frame today. Great piece!

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you, Maryam - I appreciate it!

[SteveB]

Well done. I really liked how tomorrow and yesterday frame today. Well penned Rita

[Rita L. Sev]

A simple truth... thanks, Steve!

[Clockwork]

I really like how you crafted this one into a letter format. I think that added a really personal tone to the poem which helped to show the interconnections you were going for. The second stanza in this poem is my favorite--you show us that tomorrow is a gift to be thankful for, and that you will honor that gift in the best way you can. That makes me very glad.

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you, Christian. I am thankful for every day - and even on "bad" days, I give thanks... I appreciate your review!

[Aethereal]

This poem got be thinking about trees, and how they‘re so much like ourselves. Our memories retain impressions of our past just as the rings of a tree retain weather changes over a tree’s lifetime. A tree would be nothing without its trunk . A tree lives within a thin layer of life just above its trunk that connects its past with its future.

[Rita L. Sev]

Thank you for this insight - that's true!

[Shaun Payton]

Living each moment, is a great idea in its difficulty to achieve.

[Rita L. Sev]

Yes, you are so right about that, Shaun... but it is a worthy endeavor.

[Shaun Payton]

Oh it sure is Rita:)