Tomorrow

Poem • 2019

Written in 2019 and published in 2020, this poem locates hope not in some distant destination, but in the next breath.

Inside every breath
the promise of tomorrow

Each breath a threshold
transiting a gateway

Not at a place I’ve yet to venture
but to a moment inside myself

There has never been
nor will there ever be
a horizon unbathed
by the sun’s warm gentle light

My planet, my home
never stops enjoying
heaven’s radiant embrace
always dawning a new day

Freshly awakened eyes
find themselves widely open
not with effort or force
but wide in focus
seeing familiar terrain for the very first time

The promise of tomorrow
lies just ahead of where I set my gaze

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