What Today Do I Live
I dare not judge
In the distance
The promises of my own integrity.
I dare not live
The life of myself today
With all of its intelligence
Beckoning intimately from within
The shadows of its own fallen dreams
As it detains of common interest
Its own intellectual behavior.
Calling and calling
Calling from the heart of my life.
My soul still feels
As I walk
As I sleep
It is the unknown
As though it is I.
Although it wonders
Beyond the seas of time
Beyond earths endings
And the unfalible beauty
Of all life has to give.
What Today Do I Live
My time is not my own.
My happiness is given to me
By the courage of someone elses joys.
My knowledge is given
By the erudition entrusted
Contingent of someone elses wisdom
Yet this that I am
I feel not like myself.
Neither of myselves perfunctionally
Passes through the gorges of life
To see the destiny of tomorrows fate.
For What Today Do I Live?
Cecelia Weir
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