Today

 

                    Today

 

Only today.

Unrepeatable.

All today, which you already intuited,

that you waste hour by hour,

that you leave blank page

by laziness and self-deception

and fill it out another day.

However,

today is always the day.

Now, without further delay,

without turning your back on life,

to open the hand with faith,

tighten the hug,

abandon yourself to emotions,

be satiated with love and peace.

Without today, tomorrow is a chimera.

Tomorrow is always the trap,

mirror of more tomorrows.

The ruse well alert

that takes you to another tomorrow,

to no, to never, to never.

                    Luciano Maldonado

                          (Gijón, 2022)