Sparkle

Since the day they decided

 to give their relationship another chance

The two have seen life in a new light

Even though she’s twenty-nine  

she feels as  if he’s taken her back to a place

 where they can dream about life and

she’s eighteen again, so carefree

Could the love she feels for him be

the cause of such a blissful state of mind?  

The first time he gazed into her eyes after what felt like an eternity

she felt her heart begin to race

He then gave her the sweetest complement

she’d ever heard him give     

 Your eyes sparkle I could spend my day

just sitting with you gazing into them

 In response to his complement she replied

Thank you but the reason they sparkle is

due to the new lease on the love we now share

Try

She never expected the one she loves to act so immature

Telling her he doesn’t understand why she’d want to be friends

with a man that tore her heart in two

when she was young and in love with a dream that never would come true

A dream that turned her life upside down for  a time  

The truth is over the years through God’s words

she has learned to forgive the one who once broke her teenaged heart

If not for him then for herself because she

 can’t allow the heartache his honesty caused

to hang like a dark cloud  full of rain over her life

He has now become like an older brother to her

Isn’t her forgiving heart one of the many reasons you

fell in love with her in the first place?

She’s never asked you

The one she gave her heart to

 to choose between herself and your friends

Why does it seem as if you’re saying

“Do as I say not as I do?”    

Love please don’t make me choose because

I’m telling you now you

might not like the decision I make   

I know you’ll never be his biggest fan but

like me you need to  forgive him

If not for him then for yourself

I understand how you feel but

my heart was the one left with scars

Scars ripped open every time you bring his name and

 the phrase he broke your heart up

all I’m asking is that you try to get along for me

because I’ll always love you both

Him as a brother and you as a

Well you know how I feel!   

   

Dream Lover

On several occasions over the past few months she’s been known to look into the night
 at the silvery beam piercing through a patch of misty haze that shimmers
 across the sky which appears like black velvet for miles
Her mind racing, filled with questions she doesn’t have answers to but
her heart longs for the answer to just one inquiry
Where is my dream lover?

I’m asking because he seems so far away and
no matter what I do I can’t seem to reach him
He stole my heart in my youth of yesterday and
I still love him as much as he loves me but I wonder
where his sweet side has gone
The side that won him the heart
he says he can’t and never wants to live without
I know our love has been tested a lot through the years but
I’ve questioned if time robbed us of the sweet young love we once shared?

Oh God I’d give anything to have our days of young love returned
You must’ve heard this poem being written in my heart for days because
you gave us the answer we needed
He and I opened up to one another like
we haven’t done for sometime
When all was said and done
we both promised we would forever keep
  the lines of communication open
I have my dream lover back
I couldn’t be happier  

Liquid Prayers

Never before has she had tears fall like

they’ve been for the past few months

Tears from somewhere in the deepest places inside

places she never knew existed

Every time she turns around it seems she’s wiping

a salt trail from a face so strange  it scares her to look

at herself in the mirror sometimes  

She wonders if anyone hears her cries at night

God she hopes her tears will stop endlessly falling and

soon take the pain she feels away with them

If what she’s heard is true and tears are liquid prayers

 she’s got a heart and soul full and she knows

God will help her in His own time

giving her back the strength she forgot

she even had

It’s Not Serious

She goes to work grinning from ear to ear and

her eyes  have an electric sparkle I’ve only seen a few times in my life 

She tells anyone who will listen, she misses her baby

They’ve known each other for a little over six years now

You should see her face light up like a school girl’s when

she gets a text message from him and or his number pops up on her caller ID

As far as I know she spends some of her free time with her prince charming

as every new couple should

Yet she claims it’s not serious

Come on I’m not new to this game called love

I use to use the,” it’s not serious” explanation

to avoid the pain of being separated from the one I love

I’ll be the first to say denying what the heart wants

can be the greatest regret one will ever have

Why should we or anyone have to live with that regret?

 I’m happy for you and you deserve all the love he has to give 

Mars Verses Venus

Here’s an age old question

Why are men and women so different?

There have been several occasions when his call

has been the one event that makes her whole day

Just to hear him say I love you and to know

he’s inquiring about her makes the

 flame of passion set her heart ablaze  

Those are the days she knows she would walk to the

ends of this earth for him if he should need her to

Then there have been those days she feels as if

she’s the last person he wants to speak with

If he lets her in though, the one thing he won’t 

stop talking about are the needs God gave every man

To tell you the truth that kind of chat from time to time

really kills the romance she’s been daydreaming about

up till the moment she gets his call   

When that awful feeling creeps upon her

she gives him the space she thinks he might need

She then goes crazy thinking, should I put my feelings aside and

just go with the flow?

Oh God, why does this thing we call love  

have to be a battle of Mars verses Venus?

Can you please answer that question for all of us who feel

 lost in love at times?

In The Lyrics of a Song

It’s funny how music seems to tell her story from time to time

 without the singers and or songwriters even knowing they’ve done so

She recently heard a song by Lisa Scinta which sounds like

it could’ve been a page right out of her journal

A page of pain and a broken heart that

seemed and at times still seems  

as if it may never heal    

A page written before she knew

 how to truly forgive those she loves 

When she first heard Lisa sing this song

 she thought “Oh, not another sad love song”

Then she replayed it hearing

 her own story in the lyrics of a song

Lisa’s angelic voice making them all the more beautiful

Hers is a story of loss turned into strength

A brother taken to be with God far too soon

 though she still looks for the answer every day

A family whose lives have pulled its members in different directions  

  at times making her ask, why can’t I hold us together?

Then she realizes like Lisa’s lyrics say

“I can’t fix this on my own”

God’s Innocence

If you’ve watched the news as much as she has lately

You’d notice young children are becoming angels

getting wings  far too soon

 Tears are flowing from hearts that

 just can’t begin to understand why

 The people who love these angels would

betray them so completely not

even seeming to care

Children aren’t suppose to know

what worry even is but as

 she’s seen all too often they are well aware

yet these angels could have futures brighter

 than they’ll ever dare to dream

If only if someone were there to be a voice for them

maybe then God’s innocence might know

the joys this life can really bring 

I wonder if He ever stops to shed tears

of sadness for His miracles who didn’t ask

for this twist of fate

 Shedding tears like she finds herself

doing a lot of these days

If God’s innocence are gifts to be cherished

that’s what should be done

 

Your Broken Heart

Girl, I’ve sat where you sit many times before

In love with someone who doesn’t love you

the way you love them

You may not believe me, but

I’m truly sorry that you now have to pick up

the pieces of your broken heart and

try to move on finding someone who will

love you as you deserve to be loved

I can see why you love the man I often refer to as

the “Love of my life”   

I love him for some of the same reasons you do

He’s kind, caring as well as giving of the heart God gave him

He makes me laugh and when the tears start flowing

he’s there to wipe them away

I know all you want is to have

 a small taste of the love we share, but

I’m here to say you can’t have a taste from him and       

oh by the way, if he tells you

 I’m out of his system I’ll never be too far away

You had your chance my dear and

 if this were another time and place

you might be the one writing this poetic verse  

He chose me now all I want is to live in love

with all the happiness he and I have to share

I pray you find someone who will mend 

 your broken heart so you don’t play with

the fire you’ve been lucky not to touch yet, but

a word to the wise if you play with fire eventually

you’ll get burned