One Day at a Time

December 31, 2011 at 11:57 am · Filed under Good stuff, Poems ·Tagged author, before us, behind us, Charles L. Mashburn, http://gooseberrygoespoetic.blogspot.com/2012/01/poetry-picnic-week-20-fairytales-my.html, new year, one day at a time, poetry, writer

This will be my last post for this year, as 2011 comes to a close, and we move into 2012. I look forward to the coming year with much hope and faith, but I readily admit there is uncertainty, as well. I know we’ll be okay, but I know, too, we must do our part and do our best, one day at a time. Happy New Year everyone!

One Day at a Time

 

As we walked this morning; the old dog and me

     we traversed our familiar path in dense fog

The nearby trees and shrubs lining the sidewalk

          were clear and vivid; the ones right next to us

But the further down the path I looked

      the less clear they were, and at a point undetermined

             they vanished into the gray mist

It came into my mind then that this was a fitting thing

          for this the last day of the year two-thousand-eleven

For the only clear and certain thing is what is… today

   Tomorrow, and the tomorrows of further days

          hold shrouded mysteries we cannot foretell

              with any solid degree of accuracy

Followed by the complete unknown

A realization came to me then, and I stopped

The dog not happy with this, looked up at me with

      aged, nearly unseeing, eyes; then contentedly sniffed the grass

I turned and looked behind us; and found it to be the same

      as what is before us; clear… then dimmer… then gray

The past, I realized, will slowly fade to gone

      and the future will become clear as we move into it

One day at a time

Copyright © 2011 C.Mashburn

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