Be grateful

We always have something 
to be grateful for, 
our family and friends 
whom enrich our lives 
with their words of kindness 
and their deeds of unconditional love.
We may at times be low in spirit, 
feel we cannot carry on, 
but we are grateful for the person 
who will put sunshine in our lives. 
Raise our sprits with their words 
and plant a smile on our face.
Being grateful comes with no obligations 
except to treat another 
in a similar way. 
Give them a lift in their lives, 
plant a smile on their face, 
then we will be grateful for 
the good that we can do.
We should never turn away 
that little cry for help, 
but be grateful that they came to us 
to help them through their crisis. 
Hoping one day, 
they might do the same for us.

In silence

In silence, you can hear 
the scratching of a pen across paper. 
In silence, you can hear 
the rhythmic sound 
of your heart beating 
telling you you are alive.
In silence, you can hear 
the screech of a demon call. 
In silence, you can hear 
the murmur of a baby 
just moments before 
they begin to awake.
In silence, you can hear 
your memories calling. 
In silence, you are transported 
back in your life 
into days long gone by 
under sun-drenched skies.
In silence, you can hear 
your voice of loneliness. 
In silence, you are there 
within the confines 
of your inner self 
and forever alone in silence.

Sometimes

And sometimes it happens that you are friends and then
You are not friends,
And friendship has passed.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself.
And sometimes it happens that you are loved and then
You are not loved,
And love is past.
And whole days are lost and among them
A fountain empties itself into the grass.
And sometimes you want to speak to her and then
You do not want to speak,
Then the opportunity has passed.
Your dreams flare up, they suddenly vanish.
And also it happens that there is nowhere to go and then
There is somewhere to go,
Then you have bypassed.
And the years flare up and are gone,
Quicker than a minute.
So you have nothing.
You wonder if these things matter and then
As soon you begin to wonder if these things matter
They cease to matter,
And caring is past.
And a fountain empties itself into the grass.

Thing called love

As we walk life’s journey 
that is not without its tears, 
sometimes we find a small pocket 
of happiness that carries us through 
until the next one comes along. 
Sometimes we find turmoil 
of which there is little escape from. 
Our direction gets mixed signals there. 
The next day 
we are back on the road again. 
The one leading us
to our final destination 
in the future somewhere. 
We all need sadness 
to show us how good 
happiness can really be. 
We all need heartaches in love 
so we can recognise 
the real thing called love 
when it comes along. 

Awake

Awake my sleeping heart 
find a love for me. 
Someone I can hold 
and set me free. 
You have slept far too long 
and let so many pass by. 
Awake my sleeping heart 
find me someone 
to care for, as I grow old. 
To be there at my side 
in times of happiness, 
and in times of woe. 
Awake; awake 
my sleeping heart 
before it is too late. 
Awake, awake 
I beg of thee. 
Awake my love 
and set me free.

love bug

A careless kiss, 
a quick embrace, 
doesn’t normally 
leave a trace.
A loving kiss, 
a warm embrace, 
always you find, 
leaves a trace.
Love circles the heart, 
like clouds across the moon; 
it captures us quick, 
before we get a chance to swoon.
It blinds us, 
and guides us, 
on our sweet way, 
even tells us just what to say.
We find ourselves captured, 
even before we have begun. 
By the love bug, 
the old son of a gun. 

Yesterday

Hear the clock ticking
As time passes by
Watch as the seasons disappear
At the wink of an eye
See how a child grows
And the years speed on their way
Knowing there is nothing we can do
To stop the passing of yesterday
One day we are children
Walking to school
Next we are teenagers 
Breaking all the rules
Then we are adults 
With children of our own
And then like magic
They have families of their own
One day we are young
Then we are old
And the time in between
Is our tender years
That pass so quickly
They are gone without trace
Leaving only the memories
Of the magic we couldn’t contain 

Positive mind

Sailing on a ship of memories
Over the tide of broken dreams
Hear the wail of the lost souls
Who just linger there
Each day we fight to hold a place
In an unforgiving world
That cast aside the failures
To an unrelenting tide
Every mountain is scaleable
If you really want to try
No goal is unattainable
To the positive mind

Disappointments I Have Known

In life disappointments I have known
But still my problems are my own
For with others your problems why share
When they have their own woes to bear.
Since Human nature is this way
Even for success there is some price to pay
The wealthiest person in the town
Is the one some wish for to drag down.
Yet what is success I only know
That on trees and bushes it doesn't grow
Some say it is a state of mind
That only in happy people you will find.
But with that you well may disagree
Since we all look at life so differently
Apart from your children and your wife
You see money as the most important thing in life.
In life I've had to cope with stress
But I also have known happiness
Have known the difference between joy and sad
But in life you take the good times with the bad.

Beauty

How many times have we 
traveled down a road 
merely out of curiosity, 
and as we move down it 
something there takes us by surprise. 
Something insignificant 
somehow catches our eye. 
We stop and stare 
at the beauty consummated there. 
A beauty that fills our heart 
with the passion we identify as love. 
We are confused not knowing what to do. 
Before us lies, our future 
if we make the right approach 
or our downfall if we turn away. 
Do we stride forward 
or do we hesitate and take care. 
The decision is only ours 
in what we should do. 

Where you belong

The lingering shadows of those 
who are gone from our grasp 
bring comfort to those 
who had to say behind. 
Their voices inherit the wind 
on cold and lonely nights. 
Their voices can be heard 
telling us everything is all right 
when the shadows of loneliness 
fall across our sight. 
Our weeping call to come back 
is answered in the wind 
and the shaking branches 
touched by a breeze. 
Candles were lit to show us the way 
when the clouds of darkness surround 
and the voices inheriting the wind compound. 
We walk with eyes blinded 
into an eternal light 
to be consumed within. 
No one knows our boundaries 
when angels take flight 
and we only go when we are ready 
to face the eternal night. 
Those we left have no fear 
we maybe gone, but we are still here. 
Our voices inherit the wind on dark blustery nights. 
We are those fleeting shadows 
you catch from the corner of your eye. 
We seek not to alarm you, 
just to guide you along, 
we are your past nudging you 
into the future where you belong.

Womanchild

The distance can seem miles
Between the woman and the child
Though she longs to become one
A world of pain has her undone
She feels with all her senses
Tries to keep from building fences
But, there's a child to protect
And a woman who must reflect
With a heart that's turned to dust
She waits for true love she can trust
While the kiss of love escapes her
The breath of life sustains her
Held hostage in her soul
The child gives the dice a roll
The woman weighs her chances
While the child, she smiles and dances
She often gives more than she takes
You'll never know how deep she aches
So, give her room for her mistakes
Help her grow the love she makes
A woman knows the price she'll pay
If true love doesn't save the day
A child will take the love she finds
No matter how the road may wind 

Carry on

Valiant are those whom take life and live it, 
caring not of the dangers that may cross their path, 
venturing to the borders 
where life and death meet.
Bold are the warriors who cross the invisible lines 
in the truth everyone seeks. 
Hail to these heroes for within legends 
they will never die.
Immortal are those who hide 
within our imagination 
and remind us always 
that we could have been like them.
We are all valiant, bold and immortal 
if one person remembers us 
long after we have gone, 
and our strength makes them carry on.

Climbed down from that mountain

It was not so long ago 
I stood on a mountaintop, 
close to the gates of heaven. 
That I could almost reach it 
by stretching out my hand.
A sense of serenity 
seemed to surround and engulf me. 
I heard voices of old friends 
who had passed away, 
all of them calling me.
Then an angel spoke to me 
as I stood there 
with heaven not that far away. 
Nbms, it’s not your time 
yet to be called to me.
Live your life 
with love and honesty, 
continue with what you do 
and that will lead you 
to the path to what you want.
I stood in silence 
for a few minutes more. 
I climbed down from that mountain 
and my life was filled 
with peace and serenity.
Today I walk tall 
my mind is satisfied 
with my life I lead 
and all the things I do 
thanks to my God in heaven.
I start each day with a smile 
hoping it encourages others 
to do the same. 
Because I know now what awaits me 
when my life is finally through.

As the wind whispers

As the purple shades 
of twilight call 
from across the garden walls. 
I hear old loves reverie 
calling out to me.
Old loves refrain 
calling out your name 
from a distant rendezvous 
with you and only you.
The strains of violins 
linger on the wind, 
pulling at my heartstrings 
whenever I think of you.
As the purple shades 
of twilight call 
from across the garden walls. 
Calling out of love again 
as the wind whispers your name.

Love is always insight

I listen to the wisdom
told by the trees,
and hear a blade of grass
as it talks to the breeze.
I breathe in the beauty,
that my eyes behold,
as it tells me love conquers all.
It tells me since creation,
love has ruled the hearts,
of every living thing.
Without love, there would be nothing,
but just still silent air.
Therefore, as I look around
at the affairs of the hearts,
I smiled to myself,
as love is always insight. 

You and I

I LOVE YOU!
Not just who you are, who you are and you
who are together, for our self I understand.
I LOVE YOU!
Not only for what you did yourself,
For me, it adds beauty, love, darling
I LOVE YOU!
The kid in me, the earth hidden
to be close to you at any time has ever produced, and all
For being by my side.

In life, we travel many roads, 
some with a point of no return. 
We seek to find our dreams 
stashed away in a cul-de-sac, 
and if we hurry pass 
we miss them along the way.
We must take our time 
with every road we travel, 
take in all that is there, 
because if we don’t 
we may miss 
the greatest treasure there.
i'm here, waiting Without any regret.
coz i'm sure, no one can love you the way i do.

We make our life.

We make a life by what we give 
never thinking of what we may receive.
We make a life by helping others 
never thinking of the help we might receive in times of need.
We make a life by looking forwards 
never dwelling on the mistakes of the past.
We make a life by being positive 
never taking the negative view.
We make a life by loving others 
never letting hate dwell in our hearts.
We make a life filled with contentment 
and long friendships too.
We make a life we love to live 
as each day as it passes through.

No one, Nobody

My love for you never dies
What should i do? 
I kill it
I dump it
I rebuke it
N I blame it
I do all sorts of nonsense things
Still at the end of the day 
When I lie on my bed
My pillow which is still damp from last night tears 
Asks me, 'What happened today? Did She ask for you? '
And this sends a new volley of tears
dampening my pillow even more so
To ask me again the same question the next day
What to do..!!
My love for you is still alive
No one .. Nobody .. 
Can love you that way !!

Yellow flowers.

 To the tune of 
Intoxicated Under the Shadow of Flowers
The Double Ninth Festival
Light mists and heavy clouds,
melancholy the long dreary day,
In the golden censer   
the burning incense is dying away.
It is again time
for the lovely Double Ninth festival;
The coolness of midnight
penetrates my screen of shear silk
and chills my pillow of jade.
After drinking wine after twilight
under the chrysanthemum hedge,
My sleeves are perfumed
by the faint fragrance of the plants.
Oh, I cannot say it is not enchanting,
Only, when the west wind stirs the curtain,
I see that I am more gracile
than the yellow flowers.

forever love

Dying is what happens
When love leaves its state
But the heart that truly loves
Loves forever, Forever loves
It might seem that the days are dark
It might seem that the shine is lost
It might seem that the days are bleak
It might seem that the nights are terrible
The yearning and longing for the one
You love, flows endlessly, From the heavens above
Through the dark of the night, 
Through the light of the day
Through the showers, the spate
Through the summer, the autumn grey
Through the winter cold, the snowy days
The heart that truly loves, loves on ...
Loves on ... now i start to learning ..!!

Weeping

人生能幾何？    How long can one man's lifetime last?
畢竟歸無形。    In the end we return to formlessness.
念君等為死，    I think of you waiting to die.
萬事傷人情。    A thousand things cause me distress -
慈母未及葬，    Your kind old mother's still alive.
一女纔十齡。    Your only daughter's only ten.
泱漭寒郊外，    In the vast chilly wilderness
蕭條聞哭聲。    I hear the sounds of weeping men.
浮雲為蒼茫，    Clouds float into a great expanse.
飛鳥不能鳴。    Birds fly but do not sing in flight.
行人何寂寞，    How lonely are the travellers.
白日自淒清。    Even the sun shines cold and white.
憶昔君在時，    Alas, when you still lived, and asked
問我學無生。    To study non-rebirth with me,
勸君苦不早，    My exhortations were delayed-
令君無所成。    And so the end came, fruitlessly.
故人各有贈，    All your old friends have brought you gifts
又不及平生。    But for your life these too are late.
負爾非一途，    I've failed you in more ways than one.
痛哭返柴荊。    Weeping, I walk back to my gate.

But .. no more You.

I can still remember your words, 
Life is not always fair.
I can still remember that I thought it was absurd.
I didn’t want to believe those words existed in this air.
But now I know it is verity, 
I am here without you.
It all seems like an act of barbarity, 
And I still cannot believe it is true.
All these miles that separates us, 
Are nothing compared to how close my hearts keeps you.
But there is something you can probably guess, 
Sometimes I feel like number two.
But I know the same blue sky is looking down, 
On both you and me.
Even if we don’t live in the same town, 
And we are separated by the sea.
You are still with me in my dreams, 
The world can’t live without your love.
And sometimes my crying goes to extremes, 
But it all stops when you are the one I think of.
It is really good to hear your voice saying my name, 
It makes my whole heart fly.
And it feels like I am surrounded by flames, 
I used to wonder what it meant to be loved and wanted, 
But that all changed on the first day of May.
That is when I could feel your love be flaunted, 
And I can still feel it every single day.

Softly, slowly

Softly softly, Slowly slowly
that’s how it creeps up on you this feeling of lonely.
Empty house deserted streets
Your mobile phone making only work beeps
Than it arrives as quick as that, 
And it covers your head just like a hat
why am I here ?where’s my life going ? 
these are the symptoms you will be showing
why am I not happy like all my friends ? 
yes, it’s upon these thoughts that this feeling depends
then it envelops you as quick 
as a flame does a wick