Poem of the Moment

Salutation to the Dawn

Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of our existence:
The glory of action,
The bliss of growth,
The splendor of beauty,
For yesterday is but a dream
and tomorrow only a vision.
But today, well spent, makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness
and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day.
Such is the salutation to the dawn.

~ attributed to Kālidāsa, translated from Sanskrit