One Day

One day - a beauty, a blessing, a boon. One day - a promise, a prospect, a pledge. At times a faint hope of the unobtainable, at times a great vision of what's to come. One day, I yearn to be among equals once more, to allow wit, warmth, wisdom and wonder to again have their time in the light around me - one day to see them, too, have their day. One day, I long to finish this hateful accounting, to forever close this tedious, tiresome tab; to stop thinking, over and over, of the fateful tally: one more day down, one more damn day done - each day. One day - the best benefaction for the besieged. One day - the preeminent panacea of the plagued. One can keep going, keep fighting, given that one day; can change it all, if they can only hold on - to one day.