Today

It is this breath
we are given,
these days we wake up to
that we, so very often,
take for granted.


Another day crossed off our calendars.
 A countdown to a day significant in the future,
ignoring all those that lie in-between.



A feeling of hopelessness on those days we are forced to endure
without the presence of someone that may make the day that much more meaningful.


Some days exist just to trap you in the past,
rather than a fresh breath to the future.

Yet, as isolated as those twenty-four hours may become,
somehow the next day usually promises relief to this inflicted despair,
in the perfect sort of contradiction.
To deflate and re-inflate that balloon of life
that shrinks and swells just as often as the temperature changes.

The beauty of today is defined by the resilience,
the perseverance,
and the ability to adjust and adapt
to anything and everything the day may bring.

The hope is for today, in spite of all the past disappointments and heart aches.

Hope for possibility that this crazy life sprinkles around random corners of our day
and in the faces we meet that may change our tomorrow.

Hope in ourselves; in our abilities and our capacity to touch other's lives
the way another may have touched ours.

Whether we think we're ready for it or not, life is happening.
And today, should never be just another day.
Today... is beautiful.