Today

Yesterday is past,
promises broken,
promises kept,
achievements,
failures...
yesterday is past.
Tomorrow is fiction,
an unknown,
to be or not to be,
a sketchpad for ideas
but only with abundant erasers...
tomorrow is fiction.
Today is mine,
my responsibility,
a day I can choose to do right
or to fail, to toss away the good,
a day I cannot control
but can seek one who can,
can listen and learn and grow
with mind set toward peace,
or one I can squander waiting
for tomorrow, lamenting for yesterday,
today is mine.