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Start Where You Stand - An inspiration poem telling us not to live in the past, but look to the future and build our dreams starting today. There is no use reliving the past as it can’t be changed. Previous failures, previous defeats really don’t matter, what matters is that we move forward today and take action in building a successful tomorrow. Courtesy of "Inspirational Words of Wisdom"

Start Where You Stand
By Berton Braley

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won't help you in beginning new,
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 defeats
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.

Courtesy Inspirational Words of Wisdom