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Unwavering Faith   Our spirit can never be broken as our will is strong Because nothing can stand in its way For to a higher purpose do we all belong And this is only the testing ground where we stay.   We will, one day, prove that our promise will realize All the challenges we faced will overcome As long as we know that Heaven is the prize To no evil here will ever simply succumb.   It may seem these words are only written in vain That the darkness around us too heavy fall But the goodness that lives will always win again For to a higher purpose always hear its call.   And humanity’s experiment will not, here, fail For we were not created for this to be our fate For our faith unwavering when Heaven gain And all that’s evil left behind in goodness's trail.

Sonnet  353 (Love as Sweet) The sun so softly shines  where love does grow  The night cannot obscure such rays so bright  But where you are the fairest light I know  Where all on earth must bend before your light.  The Robin sings so sweetly in the day  The silence, now, is smitten by her sound  And where you’re heard a melody does play  So, in my heart, my harmony is found.  The ocean’s waves upon the shore do land  Their ebbs and flows do bring serenity  The way I’m calm by holding your soft hand  As far you go you still come back to me.  This earth can only live with love as sweet  So, in your arms, I’ll find my life complete. 

Death's Second Self This mythical fascination with immortality I believe each moment here is precious Though I know Death will stop for me Then the life I live here most relish. When that time comes and I must leave I wish my time here remembered well Though those left behind for me may grieve The example I left, I wish, lives on to tell. No need to hope this earth no limits give The time it allows is enough for me I am grateful for those moments it lets me live Though there may be another place I’ve yet to see. So, let this dream of eternal life live in lore That seems to so many so enticing Here I have yet so much more to explore That otherwise seems like Death if never dying.

A Look I see the way you look at me And you see the way I look at you Our heart's invitation all can see Only a few words to see it through. Our feelings nothing can deny Now the next step they must take That our longing will satisfy And from our feelings our union make. And learn love’s appearance unknown It does not care if you believe it shows It is governed by what our spirit sown And only by what our heart knows. Seeing you again may be the time When our feelings to our meeting turn And what is written in this rhyme Bringing us, finally, to what we yearn.

 Only a Taste There was an angel that Heaven sent to me And through her spirit I learned to love A feeling that from this earth made me free I should have known it came from above. For soon from this place, she had to go And I was left to deal with what she left behind Without her love only sorrow left to know And nowhere else such love could find. And now I am left with only this question Should I go on without a woman so divine? Then have to continue having learned this lesson I have to make the most of what no longer mine. And learn to live without love as my cost And then my remaining days a waste To live a life where love I have lost Never meant for Heaven, only a taste.

Christmas Forever  the world was dark before, no end in sight Until that morn a babe was born here That from our darkness showed the light That showed us hope and no more fear. And now the darkness comes once more So why do we want to celebrate? For all that's bad goodness does abhor This day we show that it can wait. It may well be our fate uncertain For the babe turned man put it in our hands Will we rise to the occasion or pull the curtain? Maybe He the only one who understands. All I know is Christmas is still a special day Where all we face must, to it, bow If nothing on this day can stand in its way Why can't its spirit this world forever allow?