Love, Life, and Caring
By MwsR
There are connections
Although subtle and yet uplifting things
Something that takes the bite out of the sting.
Warming inside the heart they work
They come without a note or a gift
They’re felt in the heart’s path when it needs a lift.
Cannot contain it,
For they’re not to be owned or kept
Not to be useless or did you forget?
We each have the opportunity to use these
Each day and till the end.
They are love and life and caring, my friend.
I see it all so clearly now, as if I was looking at it all through my front window pane.
The journey that made me into the person I now am and often times had to refrain.
A badge if you will, of things I endured, things I could not let go of, and things I will always remember.
I felt often times, like a visitor not a family member.
This window allowed me to see, the parts that I embraced, the parts that I hid, and the ones in between.
The parts of the whole that makes up , the “me”.
Sometimes while looking through this window, it has condensation and dirt that makes things appear different than they were, and are.
When this happens, I look for all those hidden scars.
Windows can reflect light as much as they can reflect heat.
It makes no difference to me, that is part of my heart’s beat.
It is what makes me human, and able to feel things deeply and eternalize things that have made me.
I would not ask for another life, not for one moment, you see.
Window or not I can pull things out and reach from experiences, from trials, and deceptions.
I can use them and concentrate on them with great reflections.
Windows, like our lives can be adorned with things, given great presence, and stationary things.
But what is worth more than all that, more than keeping them clean, or adorned in things, is what they actually bring.
As if our lives were not enough without all that, windows are worth more than gold.
Windows are worth more than gold.
LIFE, LOVE,HOPE by MwsR
Life is too long not to enjoy
Life is too short to not make amends
When does this circle of life have to end?
Love is too great not to share
Love is putting someone else first in your heart
Would it not be right to share it from the start?
Hope is wonderful to have
Hope makes things worth wishing for
Take yours and share it more.
Nature of Things, by MwsR
The wind sneaks through the trees
There is so much that you can feel but not see.
The sun appears in the same areas each day
But in life often we just assume things will be okay.
Like leaves know that eventually, their place is on earth
Sometimes we need to know our worth.
In life as in nature, there are some absolutes and much we don’t know.
It isn’t our job to have all the answers if we did we would never grow.
Experience life, experience nature, experience it all.
We don’t always have to be certain of how we will land or fall.
“Not today”, by MwsR
“Can I talk to you?” I say
You reply, “Not today.”
I wonder if you know the sleepless nights I lay awake and cry
Do you know how hard it has been? I feel like I could die.
I sometimes run for the phone thinking this time it will be you,
But it seldom ever is, oh how I wish it to be you, it’s true!
You say you’re busy and you say it’s okay.
But I know things are not that way.
I wonder if you contemplate your future for even a little?
Do you know you put us in the middle?
I wish that you had of listened while you were still here,
Then we would not have so much to endure.
Sometimes whether you acknowledge things or not
Time has a way of securing the endless knot.
The kind that burns down deep inside a person’s soul,
The one that wants let me let you go.
I often sit and think about the past
But I know it isn’t there that matters, it is in what is here that lasts.
If we can take what little we think we are or the little we have,
We can cover any wound, just like a salve.
Please come out of this funk you are in
Look around and start again.
Make the most of each day you’ve been given
Start taking charge and start believing.
Life gives us sometimes, only one chance to change.
Don’t let trouble mess you up, or help to pass the blame.
You are in my heart, my soul and mind,
Now it is time to take off those blinders because you aren’t blind.
When I ask you to talk, say okay.
I might just have something important to say.
I don’t want to take your time,
Just want you to know I will give you mine.
I will help where help is to be given
But it is truly your life, your own life you have and need to be living.
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.”
― Les Brown
Seems just yesterday we were getting things ready for your prom
Things were so very different and unknown back then.
Many dreams, hopes, and wishes that never seemed to end.
I remember how nervous you were being all “dolled up”,
Yet,to me you were such a true beauty, despite the makeup.
I wish I had collected every thought and word, all those years ago.
I always wanted to be there for all your “firsts”,
All the times when your spirit seemed about to bust.
Those times when everything I did seemed to be just enough.
You were the first, for me.
So beautiful and tiny,
So meek and yet so strong.
Oh, how I long to be there once again,
When there was nothing better than holding your small hand.
How could that path turn to such a different one?
I feel we lost something along the way,
Something that either was burnt or got tattered
Those feelings we may never have again.
I long for the day when the sun shines our way again
When all that will matter is us and our love.
Here’s to and through the journey, of us.
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