Today Is Present Poem by Tony Cemaluk

Yesterday is gone, its door is closed and locked,
No pleading will open it, no knocking will unlock.

Today is present, its door is open wide,
Enter with the lessons you learned inside.

Take the lesson, leave behind the pain,
What broke you yesterday has made you gain.

March into today, for today is yours to own,
Find what is in stock before it too is gone.

For today will soon become another yesterday,
What you do not seize now will fade away.

So do not waste the present weeping for the past,
Make today count, for no day will ever last.