Gem of The Week
Start Where You Stand
Poem by Berton Braley *
Start where you stand and
never mind the past,
The past won't help you
in beginning new,
If you have left it all
behind at last
Why, that's enough,
you're done with it, you're through;
This is another chapter
in the book,
This is another race that
you have planned,
Don't give the vanished
days a backward look,
Start where you stand.
The world won't care about your old defeat
If you can start anew and
win success;
The future is your time,
and time is fleet
And there is much of work
and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes
and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial
right at hand,
The future is for him who
does and dares,
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
To-day's the thing,
to-morrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face
it unafraid,
And leave the past to
ancient history,
What has been, has been;
yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither
blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be
brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.
*Berton Braley (1882 – 1966), Prolific American poet and writer
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