I Am Nothing Special I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this […]
To Live in this World to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go ― Mary Oliver excerpt from In […]
We Shall Not Cease From Exploration We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ― T.S. Eliot Four Quartets
My Turn Shall Also Come My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. ―Osip Mandelstam The Selected Poems
Still ‘Round the Corner Still ’round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun. ― J.R.R. Tolkien
I Wish the Night Would End I wish the night would end, I wish the day’d begin, I wish it would rain or snow, or the wind would blow, or the grass would grow, I wish I had yesterday, ―V.C. Andrews Flowers in the Attic
Every Blade in the Field Every blade in the field – Every leaf in the forest – lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. ― Henry David Thoreau
I Am Still With You If it seems that I am far away on this empty and solemn day, Just open your heart and know it’s true, that I am still right here with you. If during the day things are going wrong, please don’t feel sad and alone. Just open your heart and know […]
Not In Vain If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain: If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain. Emily Dickinson
Though I Am Dead Though I am dead grieve not for me with tears think not of death with sorrowing and tears; I am so near that every tear you shed touches and tortures me though you think me dead. But when you laugh and sing in glad delight, my soul is lifted upward to […]