Because of You

Your sweet words echo in my head each day

You help me to make it through

Every time I tell you I’m happy

Well, babe, it’s because of you.

Lying in bed at night, I picture your handsome face

Beautiful eyes, your sensuous lips.

I long to feel myself wrapped in your arms,

To be given your sweet kiss.

I wish you could see the joy in my heart

The love you’ve given me

I wish you could be right here

For now and eternity.

Strength (I Am)

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I am now strong, because at one time I had to be.

I held her hand as she was dying.  Now death can’t strike fear in me.

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I am capable of loving, because I’ve lost what I had.

I have said goodbye, shed tears, been sad.

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I can experience pleasure, because I’ve known pain.

I fought my demons, came out ahead – and sane.

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I can turn my cheek, because I’ve been pushed around.

With each of life’s blows – myself is what I found.

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I have been tested by Life and have seen the face of Death.

I am now who I need to be in life, with each single breath.

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Look to Me

When you feel alone, always remember that you have me.  My arms are forever open to you – where you need to be.  Don’t feel lost, for I am home.  And with me is where you belong.  I won’t hurt you or bring you down.  I’ll put a happy face in place of your frown.  Look to me for what you need.  I love you so – please come to me.

Together Again

Do I love you because you’re beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you? -Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

King, you can take back your horses.

I don’t need your men.

I am now whole – I’ve been put together again.

It’s all thanks to one – who showed me that he cared.

And now he is with me – even in heart, everywhere.

I am complete; no help is due.

King take back your men, I’m like brand new.

I Fall

Slowly, silently I fall . . .

The winds whisper change as my skirt billows in the breeze.

The sun shines on my face – as the icy bite of the wind whips at my bare knees.

The ground is cold, and my heart warm.

My insides jitter at the start of this morn .

I fall as deeply as I need to be.

I fall – and fall – lightly and carefree.

I feel the breeze in my hair –

faraway from the world’s harsh stare.

I fall and fall, want and need -

And where my heart leads me to be.

I fall, and fall – fall into you.

Wrap you in these feelings – that I know you feel too.

An Explanation

I think of the feeling of your warm skin against mine,
your soft lips,
the way your look at me with your loving yet piercing eyes.

And I know I am in love
Not some fleeting kind of emotion most would associate with the word -
but real love,
the kind that’s been tested and yet only grows with time.

My life before you was only a prologue to the bigger story that I am now part of.
The days before I knew your love have become but a hazy, faraway dream.

Waking up to you each morning,
late nights filled with laughter,
the intoxicating love and happiness you gift me each day,
are the most gracious blessings my life has ever known.

Summer Solitude

As I watch the leaves dance in silhouette against the window from a passing car’s headlights, I think of you.  I wonder why the moments in my life when I’m genuinely happy pass so quickly, while my times of loneliness and solitude seem almost neverending.  The clock has become my enemy, it’s almost muted tick , a slow and menacing drumbeat in my ears.  It is in these painful and disheartening moments that I realize, although I could live without   (your)  love, I would not want to.

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