FRIENDSHIP - by Henry David Thoreau

FRIENDSHIP by Henry David Thoreau I think awhile of Love, and while I think,Love is to me a world,Sole meat and sweetest drink,And close connecting linkTween heaven and earth. I only know it is, not how or why,My greatest happiness;However hard I try,Not if I were to die,Can I explain. I fain would ask my friend how it can be,But when the time arrives,Then Love is more lovelyThan anything to me,And so I'm dumb. For if the truth were known, Love cannot speak,But only thinks and does;Though surely out 'twill leakWithout the help of Greek,Or any tongue. A man may love the truth and practise it,Beauty he may admire,And goodness not omit,As much as may befitTo reverence. But only when these three together meet,As they always incline,And make one soul the seat,And favorite retreat,Of loveliness; When under kindred shape, like loves and hatesAnd a kindred nature,Proclaim us to be mates,Exposed to equal fatesEternally; And each may other help, and service do,Drawing Love's bands more tight,Service he ne'er shall rueWhile one and one make two,And two are one; In such case only doth man fully proveFully as man can do,What power there is in LoveHis inmost soul to moveResistlessly. ______ Two sturdy oaks I mean, which side by side,Withstand the winter's storm,And spite of wind and tide,Grow up the meadow's pride,For both are strong Above they barely touch, but underminedDown to their deepest source,Admiring you shall findTheir roots are intertwinedInsep'rably.

I STILL MISS YOU - by Angela Craig

I  STILL  MISS  YOU by Angela Craig This yearning in my heartThis confusion in my mindThe words left unspokenHaunts me all the time Everyday I watch pass byWith an emptiness in my lifeAnd a hole in my heartWhere only you belong There are nights I wake up cryingAnd wishing you were hereTo hold me in your armsAnd kiss away my tears There is something that keeps me holding on -What I'll never knowBut one day things will go my wayAnd I'll have you in my arms

QUIET EMOTIONS - by Judy Burnette

QUIET  EMOTIONS  by Judy Burnette I always wanted more from youthan you were willing to give;So now we've gone our separate wayseach with different lives to live. The bond will always be therethe friendship always intact;But the time for us has come and goneand the pages of time, you can't turn back. I will always be a friend to youand wonder how you are;The smiles and laughter I will rememberand our fights have become painless scars. Sometimes on those busy dayswhen you've a thousand things to do;Please let me glide slowly through your mindand spend some time with you. In that quiet momentwhen you're surprised to find me there;Just remember even with the distance between usI am still someone who cares.