Beauty in the Breaking

The love of your life is gone
No explanation given
You just can’t comprehend
All you can do is sit alone feeling your heart break
as the tears begin to fall
You’re left wondering what you did to make them leave
You then ask yourself wasn’t our love strong enough to
keep them from walking out on us?

She knows how you feel
she’s seen and felt the pain you now feel
Trust her she knows it hurts like hell and
all you want is to hide from the world
so the people you love  can’t
see the scars love left behind

Now here she is asking you to listen closely
When you’re done crying
the one thing you should know is
there is beauty in the breaking of your heart
It is this beauty in the breaking that
will one day help your heart open to love again

Heaven's Next Angel

If I had one more chance to ask
I’d ask you why you were so sad?
Wish you could have let me in
so you wouldn’t feel so bad
I was always just one call away and
would have listened without judgment
If you needed me all you had to do
was ask for help and
I would have been right there
If you doubted that
well you should’ve asked your son
I’m sure he would have told you
in my book family’s number one

Yes, I had sorrows too but
I would have pushed my pain aside
If I knew you were so blue
The pills were a gamble you took
Now look, you are heaven’s next angel
I hope God gives you your wings soon
So your spirit can surround us with
the love only you can give

I sit here as tears dwell deep
within my heart for you
A heart that now has a missing piece
a piece you took with you
So heaven’s next angel here’s to you

Dear Santa

You ask her what she’d like this year
that flickering evil twinkle in your eye
as she sits upon your knee
You know the one that twinkle you
tried to hide so no one but
your future Misses could see

Oh dear Santa you were a bad boy back then
What did a good girl like her ever see in your bright beautiful eyes?
A girl who turned into the woman you chose
The woman who swears she will love you as much at Christmas time
as she does all year round

So in answer to your question
Well dear Santa Mrs. Claus
has been extra good this year
Don’t you think it’s time she gets the
gift she’s always wanted?
Dear Santa in case you didn’t know
The only gift your Misses wants and
could ever want is you!

Talking in Her Sleep

It’s just after midnight
She’s talking again to whom they wonder
for now only God knows 
What could be causing this much chatter on her part?
Could it be stress do to her being unable to express herself at times?
As a matter of fact her sleep is one of the only places
she allows herself to feel the emotions she’s kept
bottled up throughout her day
They think she’s having another late night chat with her man
so they do their best to ignore her

Yet when she continues talking they come to
her room to see what’s wrong
They ask and she tells them anything
they want to know
She’s unaware of the fruits she spills
while talking in her sleep
Things she’d never say in daylight

If you’ve been hurt by what you’ve heard from her
while she’s talking in her sleep
she now offers her deepest apologies
Yet if you don’t want to know what she really thinks
don’t ask while she’s talking in her sleep

The Other Woman

You say men do it all the time 
sleep with women for one thing and one thing only
Then the next morning they forget them
at least until  they need a warm body to
remind them how a woman feels
You ask yourself why can’t I be like those men?

Well, here’s how I see the situation
You’re a beautiful woman who’s looking for love
in all the wrong places
A woman who deserves more than
you give yourself credit for
You deserve to be a man’s princess
if that’s what you choose 
Why would you settle for a man’s second best? 
Why be the other woman?

 

To All My Sisters

Sisters aren’t just little girls who at one time or another
want to be just like you
They aren’t just little girls who annoy you
with countless why this and why that questions
If you’re lucky like I’ve been
God will bring you sisters you never thought you’d meet
at different points in your life


To all my sisters I would like to say
thank you for all you’ve taught me and
for all the love you’ve shown
I’m proud of the women you are
All my sisters have held and will continue to hold
their own special places in my heart
Just in case I haven’t told you lately
I love you all

One Moment

Life sometimes has a weird way of showing
you even when you’re lost and
can’t seem to rise above your pain
There is someone who has it worse
then you could’ve imagined for yourself
Yet some people have no way to change
what’s happening to them

In one moment the realization that
her mother has cancer but
God may still grant her a miracle
hit her like a ton of bricks
She is here to tell you now
if He calls her mother home
she will be heartbroken
Though it is through that pain and
everything her mother has been teaching her
throughout the years that
she will gain the strength to pick herself up and
dust herself off moving on

She knows her mother wouldn’t want her trapped
in grief for the rest of her life so
she’ll do what she can to make her proud
Maybe then the mother she loves
can look God in the eye, smile and say
I raised two great women
Don’t you think?

A documentary on the hardships in Africa
She saw young children caring for themselves and
their families because their caregivers were
sick or dying from illnesses related to HIV/AIDS
Her heart goes out to those children and she
will keep them in her prayers

For the first time she thanked God for showing
her she doesn’t really have it all that bad
and at least she can carry on and be proud of
the legacy her mother will leave behind one day