A New day

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.

I can make it a day long to be remembered

 for its joy, its beauty and its achievements,

or it can be filled with pettiness.

What I do today is important because

I am exchanging a day of my life for it.
When tomorrow comes this day will be gone forever,

 but I shall hold something which I have traded for it.

It may be no more than a memory, but

 if it is a worthy one I shall not regret the price.
I want it to be gain not loss, good not evil,

 success not failure.