Heart! We will forget him!
You and I—tonight!
You may forget the warmth he gave—
I will forget the light!

When you have done, pray tell me
That I may straight begin!
Haste! lest while you're lagging
I remember him!

A charm invests a face
Imperfectly beheld.
The lady dare not lift her veil
For fear it be dispelled.

But peers beyond her mesh,
And wishes, and denies,
'Lest interview annul a want
That image satisfies.

Emily Dickinson

my little baby boy is 22 now, and I do not know where the time went,

we had a hard start -ryan was born Emergency-c-section


a bit of me - with my only child is what I have to offer you today,
connected to life, through love - and pain...
some say no pain is not to gain a deeper aspect of life - we grow in those
painful times - when you have to live by faith one day at a time...

This is one of my favorite songs, especially when I'm thinking of someone I may have harmed or disappointed over the years. I can apply to anyone....even God.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC--Q...eature=related

"The Reason" - Hoobastank (LOVE that name )

I'm not a perfect person
There's many things I wish I didn't do
But I continue learning
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I'm sorry that I hurt you
It's something I must live with everyday
And all the pain I put you through
I wish that I could take it all away
And be the one who catches all your tears
Thats why i need you to hear

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is You

and the reason is You [x3]

I'm not a perfect person
I never meant to do those things to you
And so I have to say before I go
That I just want you to know

I've found a reason for me
To change who I used to be
A reason to start over new
and the reason is you

I've found a reason to show
A side of me you didn't know
A reason for all that I do
And the reason is you

Self-Employed

By David Ignatow

For Harvey Shapiro


I stand and listen, head bowed,
to my inner complaint.
Persons passing by think
I am searching for a lost coin.
You’re fired, I yell inside
after an especially bad episode.
I’m letting you go without notice
or terminal pay. You just lost
another chance to make good.
But then I watch myself standing at the exit,
depressed and about to leave,
and wave myself back in wearily,
for who else could I get in my place
to do the job in dark, airless conditions?

To Aspire~
copyrighted by tena

The most amazing part of gazing
or playing church consisted of
A uniformed penitent attire
which a giggle was to put afoot afire

Dragged by arm acrossed a pew
No joyous smile would nun forgive
It was time to be sad and mourn
Heart inside cried out,let me live

As a Catholic wildchild
twas required to attend the Mass
A weekly sacrifice to acquire
My Salvation or Damnation pass

Flunk or fail, to prevail was amusing
The singing was not of joy but dread
The sound of dirges was I to sing
To the King upon a cross lie dead

All the beauty of His Life
God was good not cruel
I did not learn as a little child
When I attended Catholic School

Stay me - at a distance dear sir
You make me feel feared
You push me away like I have no feelings
You tell me nothing I need to hear
You cant say love - not of your own wanting
But by the book you make it divine
I do not like love if forced
unless it is of free heart and will
You hate me by my genders faults
You have me well kept - dear sir
A silent listen in my brain
Dear sir you afford my lovely little cage
yet I would rather take my leave tonight
To be free of body and rejoice in my Lord
When you cut me I bleed, you say-it's about you
You tell me to listen -it's not about me
Listen -listen then in silent disconnect
You make me feared in my heart again
So if it is not love or about love
If it duty -then do the duty for God
Stay me at - a distance, dear sir

written by -tenalouise

http://www.musicforthesoul.org/lyrics_loneliness.html

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The Land of Beginning Again

"I wish that there were some wonderful place
In the Land of Beginning Again.
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor selfish grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door
and never put on again.
I wish we could come on it all unaware,
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail;
And I wish that the one whom our blindness had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be there at the gates
like an old friend that waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.
We would find all the things we intended to do
But forgot, and remembered too late,
Little praises unspoken, little promises broken,
And all the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might have perfected
The day for one less fortunate.
It wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again,
And the ones we misjudged
and the ones whom we grudged
their moments of victory here,
Would find in the grasp of our loving hand-clasp
More than penitent lips could explain...
So I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches,
And all of our poor selfish grief
Could be dropped like a shabby old coat at the door
And never put on again."

-Louise Fletcher Tarkington

entitled - doctor my eyes have seen the years...
jackson browne lyrics