The ebbing and flowing of the tide
The coming and going of the time
The rising and setting of the sun
All these, in Love, you shall find
The brightness and darkness of the sky
The lightness and heaviness of a sigh
The happiness and sadness of a child
These too, in Love, you shall find
So...
Know how to trust
Know how to forgive
Know how to understand
Know how to give
Know how to be selfless
Know how to be mild
Know how to be patient
Know how to be kind
Know all these, and Love, you shall find
~ 2001
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Amnesia
AMNESIA
Why can’t I remember the way you smelled
the way you felt, the things you said
the day that grandpa died
When you held me to you
The only hug I can salvage from my past?
Why can’t I remember what you said the first day of kindergarten
When I slapped the teacher’s face
and squirmed out of her arms
Like a bar of wailing, wet soap slipping down the street ?
Why don’t I know how you felt those many years I left you longing for your son
In the silent house, that empty room,
With your restless maternal hands
Grasping at the ghosts in my room?
Why can’t I remember what you said that final Sunday
When your voice scratched across the miles
A phone line heavy with forgotten words
In a moment that will never be again?
Why can’t I remember?
A Little At A Time
Laugh a little
It’s all it takes
To wake the happiness
Sleeping in your soul
Cry a little
To spill a few tears
And make some room
For sweeter thoughts
Love a little
To open the door
And show the world
Your beautiful heart
I Give Up
The part where my heart is breaking
Is the part I can’t endure
I give up on this broken love
I want to stop the pain
There is no happy ever after
Just memories of what could’ve been
Because the future isn’t meant
For the two of us to share
To the sweet or bitter end
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