Who was it said,
life is lived
one day at a time?
AA is famous for
this claim.
I say that many
meaningless
days are lived
that way.
I want to know,
who gives a damn
anyway?
Some have a purpose
in place.
What was the day
like when Beethoven
finished his last
symphony?
On what day
did Salk deliver
his polio vaccine?
Was it cloudy and gray
the day the first
steam engine ran?
Did the invention
of the rubber band
change the way
things are done
every day?
What was happening
the day Bill Gates
earned his first
million dollars,
or when the first
gold nugget
was discovered
on Planet Earth?
It was a cloudy,
rainy, Good Friday,
Spring day when
I was born in 1947
my mother told me
so many years ago.
And who could
really care? Made
no appreciable
difference to me.
It could have been
during a winter
snow storm
on a Tuesday
as far as I’m
concerned.
As the old song goes,
“What a difference
a day makes, 24
little hours…”
In our days of
habitation on
this Planet
things are happening
all over the place, or
not on any given day.
Once a day is gone,
never again to return.
For some, today will
be memorable
and for many others,
today shall pass away
unacclaimed like so
many which are yet
to come.
What is for certain,
today removes you
from yesterday and
gives possibilities
for another hope-
filled tomorrow.
One day, and day
after day in
continuum is what
got us here,
my friends, some
of us anyway.
-30-
Chris Hanch 9-26-2023
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