When We First Loved

When we first loved
I knew you'd be special
Your warm smile
And smiling embrace

When we first loved
I held your hand
Gave you comfort
Planted you by my side

A love hard to hide
A love so deep
Sought to make you my wife
Build us a future and long life

Tears led to forgiveness
Good times to tight bounds
Tell where else can I find such love
I've found a good thing

So much have I learned from you
And more have I sacrificed
I count it all joy
With you in my life

I'd be a fool not to cherish you
Even more foolish not to carry you
When you are weak run to me
When you are broken run to me

I'm here - let me heal the wounds
I'm here - let me kiss your broken heart
I'm here - forget past relationships
I'm here - I promise to esteem you

I don't mean to hurt you
Though I'm not perfect
Like a lump of clay
I'm being molded

There will be rough edges
And some wedges
Pieces to break off
the things deemed unnecessary

No relationship involves two perfect people
But where there is loyalty
There is hope
Where there is faithfulness

There is unity

Where there is unity
The love will stand
No force will be great enough
Nor powerful enough
To break this kind of love

To keep the love pure
We must remember the time
When we first loved
The first kiss

The first time we said
"I Love you!"
We must remember our hearts
And how they said
"I'll love you till the day I'm dead"

Let us build together
when others try to tear us apart
Let us cherish each other
Unlike so many in our generation

For the talk of love is cheap
But the acts of love is rich
Promises of a future a dream
But steps towards them a purpose

A man without a vision
Is a broken family in route
A man without love
Is a thief of a woman's joy

But on this envoy

Let us sail...
not towards broken promises
But to the land of fulfillment

The path is laid
The vision is clear
Let's work together
In this promising frontier

Sometimes I wonder

Sometimes I wonder
Sometimes I sing
But one thing is truth
Happiness is not in things

Sometimes I dream of fame
Glorious fortune
But then I'm reminded of the less fortunate
In this I've found my calling

Society told me how be happy
Through toys and joys
Through selfish ambition
And glamours recognition

Yet I was left unsatisfied

I found happiness deep inside
in my passion and in my pride
I found happiness in the smiles of others
I found happiness and the joy of others

It is then I learned the price of greatness
It cost nothing but requires everything
A life poured out not soaked in
What a shame shall it be

What a shame shall it be if I hit the grave
With fine diamonds and bling
Golden plaques and high laden degrees
Fancy jewelry and lamborghinis

What a shame it'll be I lived so empty
This poem isn't for you it's about me
I see the suffering of my fellow man
and want to lend a helping hand

In a society about me me me
I want to take and make it about we
That's you and me
I and you....

Society says I am most important
My heart says we are most important
Society says me first
My heart tells me family first

Is it a surprise divorce is on the rise?
70 percent?
They say marriage is obsolete
I say what they say is hear say malarkey

Did you stop ask the children of yesterday?
What did they say?
Broken homes, split Christmases
Sometimes Santa doesn't deliver gifts

I know a child who once said to Santa
"For Christmas give me mom and dad"
But court orders told him either mom or dad
Every year the boy wished the same

Sometimes I wonder do people care
About the youth and their feelings
Have society lost its way?
Our love is in things

Shallow and dim
Things not alive
Things not able to love us
Things unable to confront us

I knew a man rich with plad
Much gold and thought he'd be glad
Such man died sick and confused
Ecclesiastes became his story

See I've stepped from the shadows
I understand the need
Society lacks love indeed
Society lacks true greatness

That is care for your fellow man
What good is it for me to die rich in a grave
But the lives of others stayed the same
What shame if I die lacking a family

What a shame if work replace my kids
And money replace rich memories
Money is here today gone tomorrow
But love lasts forever

Love is strong
Love will carry me on
Long after I die
If I love right I live on
I live strong

So sometimes I wonder
Is it my fate
Am I a stranger
Am I from another time

Sometimes I wonder is my heart too old
And my dreams to big
Sometimes I wonder why I dream at all
Cause when I look around

I'm encouraged not to dream at all

Maybe it be when enough kids have gone through
Society will change...
But I doubt it

Love of money is rampant

Love of money the root to all evil
The harsh reality
Yet u hope
A hundred years my words live on

I hope to speak for those ahead
The next families....
Sometimes I wonder will I ever have
What I never had