Today Is All You Have

BY CAROLE NICHOLS

"Don't live for yesterday, for it is forever gone;
It enters the realm of memory with today.
You can't touch a memory, and with each second that passes in today,
the past slips further away.

Don't live for tomorrow, for it will never come;
It is but a dream, a hope, a shadow.
And tomorrow becomes today before you ever get there,
the dreams, hopes and shadows vanish in the light of today.

Live for today, and savor each moment, each breath, each heartbeat,
lest it be your last. Taste it's many flavors,
set it in front of you, and enter into it's reality.
Today is all you will ever have...make it count."