I Will Remember Today

I think most    
have walked the edge    
the one separating is and isn't    
a world of competing sensations    
or the cloying tasteless grey  
   
Some walk the edge as ritual    
and a daily addiction    
seeking reason    
to pick up the burdens    
of a lifetime of sin and regret    
just carry it another mile
    
I have been this person    
in many ways I still am    
to live each day as the last    
and in that final denial of humanity    
something grows unforeseen
    
The flowing, caressing water    
of a still pool    
or the evening breeze    
cooling the blistering day    
taking shoes off aching feet
and the sweet oblivion of sleep
simple pleasures that grow    
to encompass the world    
 
For tomorrow will surely find me    
staring into the abyss    
yet in that moment    
I will remember today