we get a new day
every day
until we get
the last

which day is this one?

fresh or tired
habitual or inspired
we truly do not know
the greatest mystery
living
in that
next
breath

Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green
from THE MANSION by Henry Van Dyke, 1911

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