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This sounds more like a Valentine to yourself. I would change the title to: 'Just once a day', though it sounds good. Michel Bill Harrington wrote: > HI aLL! ALL this talk about death and tight shorts has prompted me to > forward a poem I don't think i've sent before. Hope you like it! > > Just for today > > Just for today > I will be kind to my fellow man > not envious or uncaring > I will not speak ill of them > but willl endeavor > to be charitable in thought and deed > to see myself through their eyes > try and brighten someone's day > rather than casting a pall over their mood > > Just for today > I will feel good about myself > dwell on thoughts that make me smile > relive my proudest moments > with no twinge of regrets > I shall not complain ofthings that I lack > but will appreciate the giifts God has given me > the warmth of the sun > thev cool beauty of the moon > the symmphony of the wind in the trees > the laughter of a child > > Just for today > I will live exhilarated > breathe in life > delight in its aromas > the 4 seasons > I will indulge myself > an ice cream cone > the time to read a good book > play my guitar > write a poem > > Just for today > if only for today > ar peace with myself and others > I will view the future with optimism > as an unopened gift > I will treat the present > as precious, precocious as a fragile rose > the past as serenely unchangeable... > All these things I vow > ONE day at a time. > > Bill Harrington