Countdown to a Day

Have you ever had a day so fixed in your anticipation that you counted down to the day when you would at last have that element of the prize which made all the difference in the world that apex to complete transformation so great a day that your thoughts grew obsessively long and so creative that your statue began to breathe and soften and move and whisper your secret name a day so close you could smell it's fragrance like spring blossoms feel the summer breeze of caring upon your naked skin hear the mockingbird's joy of unbridled song see your manifest destiny as clearly as the twinkling of a thousand stars in your eternal sky a day that blotted out all the empty yesterdays in the wink of an eye sweet with the promise "I will never leave you" that day came and went it was today not everything I had hoped for but not without its lessons not perfect in fulfillment only one step closer and not to be defeated I have vowed this night to make another day what is failure? or disappointment? or rejection? Ha! I must be about this business of making my tomorrow I count down the hours I will succeed I will have my day someday I hope to see you there! return to irma's index The beautiful music playing is by Rachmaninoff popularized by the movie Somewhere in Time