POETRY
LET ME HELP YOU
Let me help you,
As one not two,
We joined, can do it,
Side by side, we'll climb it.
All obstacles, we can overcome,
All tangles, can be undone,
As long as we do things together,
As life-long partners, it's better.
Why ponder all the future unknowns,
And carry all your worries on alone,
When not far from you, here I stand,
Awaiting you, to reach out your hand.
I promise to stand by you,
I'll assist and help you too,
Babe, believe me, when I say,
My heart with yours, we'll make a way.
written 5-28-07
J-E-S-U-S
These are the gifts, to us,
from Our Savior Jesus.
J is for His Just and Fairness
E is for the Eternal Life He gives,
S is for His Sinless Sacrifice,
U is for His Undying Love,
S is for His Saving Grace.
C is for Calvary's Cross,
H is for His Humbleness,
R is for His Righteousness,
I is for His Innocence,
S is for His Salvation, free to us,
T is for His Triumph over death.
This spells Jesus Christ, God's Son,
sent to be the Savior for everyone.
2003
Squishing My Toes
Squishing my toes into the sand
As I stood along the seashore
Letting go of Mom’s hand
I pick up a shell, “one more”.
The waves crash upon the beach
Kissing my toes, making them tickle
Overhead a seagull does screech
The next wave destroys my sandcastle.
I know the day is coming to a close
As the sky is now a reddish glow
With my bucket of shells, I squish my toes.
I look up at my Mommy, “time to go”.
2/03/08
Together
How do we cope
When you've run outta rope
And you are without hope
How do I let you know
To hold on, not to let go
Babe I tell you, I truly love you so.
You gave me such a scare
You caught me totally unaware
Loosing you, I just can't bear
Please don't leave this world yet
It would really make me upset
If you broke up this great duet.
We've only just begun our life's journey
You must realize at times it'll be bumpy
Some moments will be full of such beauty
Together we can share all life's worry
Making decisions, side by side, wisely
Holding hands, becoming old and wrinkly.
written for Russ after his overdose scare on Nov. 5,2007 I wrote this on Nov. 6,2007
In Memory & Thankfulness Of Our Vietnam Veterans:
Unseen Hero
written by pamel
02/19/08
He sat bedraggled, his look forlorn
His hair damp, stragley and long
The coat upon his frame threadbare
People passed, dismissing him with scorn
As he sat, cup in hand admid the throng
Nobody really saw this man in the wheelchair.
His coat was his cloak of true honor
In which they should have stopped, paid tribute
For he fought for their lives, their freedoms
When he got home, there were no drums
Everywhere he went, he got the boot
As the camouflage he wears brings him dishonor.
No help from Veteran Affairs, not enough anyways
Discarded like garbage, this man who fought overseas
Unwanted by his own countrymen, like a disease
He watches as people seemingly hurry on by
Turning a deaf ear, as he chants "a few coins please"
This unseen hero who gave his legs, who was willing to die.
Russ and I Feb. 2006
MEMORIES ECHO
Memories of yesteryear
Thought, to be left behind
Still haunt the echoes of my mind
Bittersweet reminders of another place
A seperate time
When tenderness and laughter once were mine.
Days of warmth and sunshine, lost in the past
Fail to pierce the gray gloom, determined to last
Faded pictures, everlasting reminders
Unforgotten where they lay cast
Like nursery rhymes
Incomplete, yet never outgrown too fast.
5/16/2005
