You only have one chance at today–
only one opportunity, soon passed,
to live this single day,
the 16th of February, 2012.

What will you do with it?
Will it be well spent?
Will you have gotten from it what you could?
What will you give?
What will you learn?

Twelve…thirteen hours from now,
February 16, 2012 will have slipped away…
forever.
Will it slip away unknown? unspent?

Or will it be savory? expansive? extraordinary?
And what could make it so? 

Text and image © 2012 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.