Tomorrow

Tomorrow, I will start again
The thousandth time anew
Forsake my petty vagrancy
Regret I always knew

I’ll shed the caricature lies
Behind makeshift survival
Tomorrow, in a breath of peace
I’ll forge a soul revival

And in the bright, redeeming dawn
I’ll live another lie
Illusions of thin happiness
Beneath a desperate sky

But though tomorrows I may win
A thousand second chances
I never will escape today
That sickening advances

And so this day I turn my sights
And set horizons far aside
I’ll validate my sullied slate
Unhappy shadows justified