Today
Today
Only today.
Unrepeatable.
All today, which you already intuited,
that you waste hour by hour,
that you leave blank page
by laziness and self-deception
and fill it out another day.
However,
today is always the day.
Now, without further delay,
without turning your back on life,
to open the hand with faith,
tighten the hug,
abandon yourself to emotions,
be satiated with love and peace.
Without today, tomorrow is a chimera.
Tomorrow is always the trap,
mirror of more tomorrows.
The ruse well alert
that takes you to another tomorrow,
to no, to never, to never.
About this poem
Need to take advantage of the present, without further delay for an uncertain future.
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Written on January 10, 2022
Submitted by lucmaldonado on December 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXABXXA BAAXXXXX XXXXXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 117 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 6 |
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