ITS A NEW DAY

Why live in the dread of yesterday 
When it was already consumed by the night 
All of your mistakes, apprehensions and faults 
Were swallowed up by the nights appetite 
And silenced like those that lay in the grave 

Allow your past to have its eternal rest
For the morning is like a springboard 
From which you can leap
Into a new and glorious future 
Leaving the cancer of defeat behind

So smile at your new opportunities 
Laugh at the obstacles of the day
Rejoice in the fact that you are alive

For many kings, queens and nobles 
Has called the graveyard their home
But you are in the present 
You are alive.

Wilford Barker.