Dear God, please grant me the strength of character to just be me
Let me travel through this life with my defences down,
Give me the abiltiy to cry when I am sad
But more importantly for joy as well
Please give me the abilitiy to laugh for laughters sake
And the audacity to laugh at adversity as well
Please give me the wisdom to accept experiences
For what they are
Rather than good or bad
But most importantly God
Please give me the ability
To love with all my heart
All the thi
Find happiness in each other.
And contentment in the time you are apart.
Share your love with each other
And make the most of every day.
Relationships made in heaven
Are made so by taking it
Day by day.
Shine on
Shine strong
Believe that dreams do come true
When you look around
You can only see what surrounds
The same with your dreams
Dont limit your dreams to what you can see
Soar above what others
Say you should be
Dare to be
All that you want to be
The sound of the bells ringing
Woke the vale in the early morn
Through out the vines and the town they could be heard
Letting the vale know Greg had now gone
The bells that usually rang to celebrate a new harvest
Now rang to celebrate his life.
A life that was lived
Like the very wine that he made
Rich and full bodied
And enjoyed to the very last drop
You see him on the beach
Just as a new day is born
Before the crowds have arrived
And the peace of the moment is gone
He greets the sea as one would an old friend.
There are no crowds to cheer him on
Nor some one to keep a score
It?s just him and the next wave
The way it has always been
Soon the set will close out
And he will be gone
He could be a builder
An accountant
Or unemployed
But before any of these things
He is a surfer
For him the surf is life
And just as imp
Once not to long ago
Receiving a letter
Would be the cause for great excitement
May be it was letter
From a far away friend
A brother, a sister
Or a scented letter of love
The words where always hungrily read
And savoured
Letters where often saved long after
the relationship had ended
But now mail has been replaced by email
What once took up to a week
Is now measured in seconds
While the words might be the same
The magic that bought the words to life
So that they danc
DANCER
She dances on a stage.
She dances with sensuality
She with grace
The men she dances for
Hold their money in the air.
Trying to buy
For a short time
The fantasy she has to sell
BANK
I wish my girlfriend
Treated me more like my bank does
For if she spent as much time
Working on new ways to screw me
As they did..
I would be a very happy man
I am a person who has spent his whole life running...
Running away from my fears,
Running away from responsibilities,
Running away from things that I hate,
Running away from people that I love.
But it is only now,
As exhaustion overtakes me
And I can run no more,
I find the only thing I have in fact been running from
Is myself?
Have a little faith in happiness,
Have a little faith in love.
Have a little faith in loneliness,
For that?s when the answers will surely come.
Give a little love to confusion,
Give a little love to despair.
Give a little love to pain,
For these are only signs you need to make a change.
Because when you learn to
love
And have learnt not to fear
And have a little faith
And give a li
You are sacrificing so much to follow your dreams.
I wonder if any one really understands the price that you pay.
I admire your strength and determination.
For I am some one you have meet along the way.
But please don?t make the mistakes
That others have done
Don?t lose your feelings in the coldness of sexuality.
Or that social narcotic called fun.
Don?t make wealth your only goal.
For this is an empty dream.
Who will hold your hand?
While you watch a summer sunset.
Who will wipe
Once upon a time. There was once an old cat and a young cat.
The old cat was watching the young cat chase his tail around and around.
The old cat asked the young cat ?what are you doing??
The young cat replied ?I have searched the world high and I have searched the world low looking for happiness. ?And I found that happiness was found in my tail. So I am chasing happiness.
The old cat scratched his whiskers and said. I to searched the world high, and I to searched the world low.
Looking
True love is
when two people
Choose to live as one,
But have the strength
and the compassion
To encourage each other
Just to be them selves....
Taken from "Thoughts from the Laundromat:
You have the most beautiful eyes,
For they are the mirror to your soul...
They reflect your beauty, passion
And an innocence that in most of us is
Long gone.
People are attracted to your beauty
For this is all they can see.
But few people would ever see your
Grace or your serenity.
Judge them not harshly for this:
It is rare to find these gifts so
Developed in someone of your tender years.
Do not fear the tears of life.
For these will always dry.
Do not fear a broken heart,
For
There is a new star in heaven tonight,
One that shone so brightly through this life.
We who knew him were blessed
For his light brightened our lives.
There is sadness now in this darkness,
For I will miss my friend.
He was known by many names
But to me he was my father.
He has now been laid to rest
Beneath the soil he so loved.
Surrounded by family and friends,
Sharing in their eternal rest.
God gave us to ends in life
One to think with
One to sit with
Depending on which one we use the most
Depends on how far we will go
Heads we win
Tails we lose
There are countless paths to Knowledge
There are many ways to give
There are endless hopes to dream of
But there is only one life for us to live
Dont waste your time in
Pity,envy, depression or things that are the same
Because how many times do you hear people say
I wished I could have ..
I should have ..
I just wasted another day
The lights of the city form a sea of colour.
Against the night sky;
A city of dreams? Maybe for some,
But not for me.
For the city is full of fear:
Fear of not fitting in,
Fear for personal safety,
Fear of not having enough.
Second hand fears sold to us
By people who can sell us the cure.
I long to be back in Thailand
Having a drink with friends
Where paradise can be found
In something as simple
As watching a sunset
The pain from a broken heart
Can be the worst kind of Pain
For it tears you apart....
But doesn?t break the skin.
Taken from Desperate and Dateless in a Laundromat
We meet late at night
Two strangers on a train
Both on a journey to the city of lights
What started as a simple conversation?
Ended up lasting long in to the night
Two people sharing their dreams
And their ambitions
As the train made its way through the night
We would meet at Notre Dame
Eat in the Latin Quarter
Then walk arm in arm
Along the Seine
Both as lovers and as friends
But ten days later
You stepped of the train
And out of my life
I was never to see you again
He sits on a park bench all alone
Shattered dreams surround him.
The only spirit left is in a bottle in nicotine stained hand.
He is old and he smells.
People walk past and ignore him, avoid him as if he wasn?t there.
But he is.
For this man was once a mothers joy
Some ones brother, some ones lover
May be even some one's Dad.
You see often the way you treat people
Only comes down to what you really see.
Taken from thoughts from a laundromat
A young life
That never got the chance to be,
A flower plucked from life
Before it had the chance to bloom.
The sadness is in the loss.
But grief is not real,
It is an illusion
A way of coping with
With what could have been.
Just as winter fades:
Into the glory of spring
So from your tears
Will love and life be re born.
