Today is the Day

Today is the day, you'll see.

That I will become a better me.

Today I will rise early,

And put on my best business suit.

I will kiss my wife as she sleeps.

And I will follow that familiar route.

I leave the house silently.

Careful not to wake.

I smile at my sleeping child

With the last quick look I take.

Then I'm out the door.

The sky still shrouded in dark.

I turn the key in the ignition

And take the car out of park.

Today is the day, I keep thinking.

I will ace this interview.

Then going forward, things will be better.

I breathe deep and know it's true.

As I reach the ferry station,

I gather what is mine.

Grasping my new briefcase

As I step into the ticket line.

The sun slowly begins rising

As I slide the teller my cash.

She says the ferry is soon leaving.

So I take off with a dash.

I barely catch my ride

And I relish in my luck.

I'm going to get this job, I repeat.

My life is no longer stuck.

I look across the water

At the Twin Towers way up in the sky.

My future is up there, I whisper.

Not knowing that today

is the day I would die.

This is dedicated to all the men in women who left home early on the morning of September 11th, 2001, and never came home.  

NEVER FORGET

 

 

I know this should have been posted yesterday, but it didn't come to me until late last night.