Today’s blog comes from Book 4 in my Into My Life Unexpected series, “Testing Love” Relationships are about the struggle, the dance and the resolutions.
Please enjoy “The Magical Journey”
So much to say
As we navigate the waves
In a storm we created
From unfulfilled expectations
Each needing the other
But really needing ourselves
To better understand
Without negativity
Learning to respect
While learning to express
And realizing that each moment
Can exist on its own
For time compresses quickly
And the moments merge
Into the magical journey
That continues for us
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I’m trying to make sense
Of the senselessness
And of course
I can’t
A beautiful young soul
Is gone
And my grief
Is overwhelming
I need to get past the anger
At those who could have been there
To stop the tragedy
That was clearly preventable
But I will be left with the memory
Of one who touched me deeply
And allowed me to help
When help is what she needed
And I will be left with the memory
Of a kind and loving woman
Who loved her life
And all who embraced her
And I will be left with the memory
Of one who asked for nothing
While giving of herself selflessly
To friends and family
I will be left also with the memory
Of one who departed far too soon
But now reminds us all
Of life’s uncertainty and fragility
Rest in peace sweet Garron
You touched so many
And left us searching for answers
But perhaps you have a greater calling
Today I am posting excerpts from my as yet incomplete and unpublished 8th volume in my Into my Life Unexpected series tentatively titled ‘Learning to Live through a Pandemic”.
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January 4, 2020 
The year has started quietly
No breakthroughs
Drama or negativity
And that is certainly a good thing
MARCH 28
I wish I could write
But everything
And everyone
Has turned negative
Coronavirus and its effects
Now control everything
From where we can go and do
To how we must go and do it
Quite honestly I am disgusted
Which is not dismissing the seriousness
But is shaking me to my core
As everyone is now an expert
Chances remain slim of contacting it
Chances are slimmer of dying
But the fear mongers are in control
And I have had it
MAY 9
For the first time ever
I am viewing my existence
Not as a process of living
But more of one of dying
I am moving slower
Hurting more
Needing additional rest
And struggling with my now
My mind fights the process
And I often lose myself
In the sexual fantasies
That become common as we age
I have been having difficulty writing, but it reminds me of a time I was stuck in 2014 and wrote about it in Book 4 “Testing Love”. I hope you enjoy it.
Trying to write
My heart songs
After searching
For the clues
Which have been there
Which beg to be solved
Which need to be released
As I fight the confusion
Of all the inanity
And disassociation
From things not clear
Though paths remain so
So it will be
The necessary result
Of unnecessary intrusions
On my uncompromising journey
To once again return
To the songs I sing
And the words within me
Begging to be free
Without compromise
Without enterprise
Yet daring to exercise
All possible to surmise
The pen returns
To the hand of the author
And the messages will be delivered
To those who await
Today’s blog is a poem written quite a few years ago, but I remain quite fond of it…Enjoy “On my Lanai”
On my lanai…
Thunder out at sea….
Drink in my hand.
Thinking about my life…….
The sun is retreating….
As the day turns to night…
Just a glimmer of light…
On a bleak horizon….
Yet that light reaches out….
To call me to its core…
With a promise to restore…
All that has been lost….
And in the calm of twilight…
There is a peace within me…
For despite the turmoil…
I have overcome the pain
