#38 - Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm. Murray Gell-Mann

EMBRACING TOMORROW

The calendar pages fly in the wind.
Today burns a hole in the past.
The future, unwritten, creates a clean slate.
And although the renewal won’t last,
new memories eagerly wait for the dawn
to give birth to the life that will come.
While some take advantage of what lies ahead,
the route will be challenged by some.
The optimist savors the course of the tide
through prisms sublime and abstract.
The daring embrace both the known and unknown
and adjust in the manner to act.
When life disappoints and spins out of control,
the force of a vision takes hold
and fashions the future around the distress,
moving forward when new becomes old.