Islamic Poetry and Other Literature

A New Day

-- Anonymous --
This is the beginning of a new day.
I have been given this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important because I'm
exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes this day will be
gone forever, leaving in its place
Whatever I have traded for it.
I pledge to myself that it shall be: Gain,
not loss; Good, not evil; Success, not
failure; in myself and for others in order
that I shall not regret the price I have paid
for this day.


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