Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today. ~ Martial (The September 11 entry in For Today, published in 1982)September 11 was one date of 365
before it became 9-11.
Innocuous days become pivotal
in the nation, the world, the town,
a life in retrospect, in passing through.
What if's, if only's, but for's hang like fog,
How can we live in today when yesterday
haunts the now, when living is standing
against the wind-tunnel gale?
When last words ever were hatefully hurled,
when omissions gape eternally,
then what?
Then grieve. Deny, get mad, bargain with God,
the fates, the wind... Feel the sad, allow the pain
until you're done, then do it again.
Reach today as best you can, then live today.
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