Come with me

Will you please come with me
To the place
To the place where you and I
Were only you and me

Where we began
We talked
We got to know each other
Word by word and smile by smile

Come with me
Come with me
Come meet you and me.

Will you please come with me
To the place
To the place where you and I
Held hands for the very first time

Where you gave a simple
This or that
Which do you like better
To be acquaintance or something more

Come with me
Come with me
Come see you and me.

Will you please come with me
To the place
To the place where you and I
Spent our nights laughing under the stars

Rippling water cascading
over stones
Words I wrote with grass
When my voice had none.

Come with me
Come with me
Look at you and me

Come with me
Come with me
Come see you, come see me.

We were then
We are now.
Still the same, though time has flown
We see things differently as we've grown
But are things really that different?
Do we really feel that different...ly?

Will you please come with me
To the place
To the place where you and I
Were only you and me?

Where we became friends
Fell in love, holding hands
Worked through the hard spots over and over again
We fell apart, and then built ourselves together again...

Come with me
Come with me
Back to you and I.

Will you please come with me
To the place
To the place where you and I
Were only you and me?

Some things

Some things you take for granted.
Some things you don't notice.
Some things you focus on too much.
Some things you will believe without questioning.
Some things you will believe only if told by the right person at the right time.
Some things you think are ridiculous, and they are.
Some things you think are ridiculous
          but they're not.
Some things you will never understand because you don't take the time to try.
Some things you will love without thinking.
Some things you will hate without thinking.
Some things you will never try
           no matter what anyone else says or does.
Some things make you angry,
Some things make you sad,
Some things break your heart,
Some things make you cry,
Some things make you scream,
Some things make you break down...
           and that's okay.
Some things overwhelm you.
Some things disappoint you.
Some things leave you wishing that you had never trusted
         Never loved
         Never been happy
         Never tried
         Never wished.

But

Some things make you happy.
Some things make you smile.
Some things make you laugh.
Some things make your heart want to burst because it is so full of joy.

Some things make you want to believe again
                                                 hope again
                                                 love again
                                                 try again
                                                 live again

Some things make you feel like you can
             succeed
                      at whatever you attempt.

Some things are worth keeping, having, holding close,  remembering.

         Even when
Some things
         Go wrong.

Something can make up for everything that has ever gone wrong in your life.
         And when you find what that is,
Some things
         won't matter.

   

I May Not

I may not get to travel to the peaks of the Himalayas

With ice picks and striking views

Piercing through,

Or to the savannahs of Africa and the chic sites in Europe.

I may not get to enjoy the safaris or dives

That the adventurer in me longs for

I may not get to speak to a dolphin

And learn from its ways

While swimming in the turquoise waters

Of a far-off island.

I may not be well-known for my speech, voice, or writings;

For my smile, my dancing, my heart.

A film or paper may never detail what I’ve done,

And the things I’ve done may not earn me

Money, respect, praise

Power, influence, friendship.

But I will know every day that I live

Where happiness greater than I ever could imagine lies.

Everything I do has purpose.

No thing that I could be doing would ever make me feel

So complete

So fulfilled.

I am joy personified.

These people – the creation of myself, my husband, my God –

Will change the world.

Will personify

Love, mercy, good will

Kindness, happiness, wisdom

They will know love and happiness

Overcome and drown out hate and pain.

I may not be able to do all the things that I once dreamed

When a teacher said, “Write what you’ll do, what you’ll be.”

Maybe an opportunity will come. Maybe not.

But how was I to know, when I wrote my dreams,

That my dreams were worthy

But nothing

Nothing at all – a moment, a feeling, a thought.

While I may not

Do, have, go

See, experience, live

The things that I dreamed I would.

I have everything.

More.

All.

Even though I may not.