tomorrow is another day <br />where you mark another boundary of awareness <br />your mind adds another layer <br /> <br />the layers of the past like onions that you peel <br />with your fingers <br />your eyes staring <br />taking each peeled reality as a must <br />the tears fall <br />your eyes dry <br /> <br />tomorrow you shall say thank you <br />you have lived and shall live some more <br />you shall be sorry for those who died <br />for those who left you <br />empty halls and empty rooms <br /> <br />you have more reasons to live and continue <br />what they have really wanted to do <br />but didn't have the time <br />hastily cut and utterly wasted by untimely deaths <br /> <br />tomorrow my friend <br />you must start wearing beautiful eyes those that smile <br />those that must assure the world <br />about a fulfillment of its dreams and wishes <br />those that must affirm beauty and wisdom and truth <br /> <br />shed off old skins and take the new ones <br />a brave mind, a calm spirit, a determined body <br />take a self that can hold much <br />because others are weak and failing <br /> <br />look out for dreams that shall make you whole <br />gather the fragments, make this mosaic of love and happiness <br />take the petals of happy moments one by one in your hands <br />put them in the bowl of your emptiness <br />put there the cool waters of your composure <br /> <br />take all sense and scents and sit in solitude <br />be not disturbed about sadness and insecurities <br />all these are now under the soles of your feet <br />all these are now taking their own defeat <br /> <br />you stand facing the sun, brave and bold <br />there is more to hold and to mold <br />there is more to be done in this world <br />there is more to be written and spoken to behold! <br /> <br /> <br />(happy birthday, one day more, another destiny)<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-your-birthday-tomorrow/
