The fire burns bright
Warning us of its might

But the need for your touch
Has overwhelmed me so much

Even the sound of your voice
Is the music of my choice

You always make me smile
If only for awhile

One day spent without you
Makes me so completely blue

With consequence in mind
I still can’t leave you behind

A love so true and divine
Although it can never be all mine

Dear, what can I say
I just can’t walk away

The flames are warning of apparent danger
Yet to my heart you are no stranger

I draw you  close to me
And learn what true love must really be
 

Shhhh....It’s a secret!
Julie L. Diaz
 

I yearn for your touch
Your sweet voice and gentle way
Looking forward to every moment
With you each and every day

I know what I feel
Can never be proclaimed
For this is a forbidden love
Of which I am not ashamed

Although I feel the passion
Between us so intensely
Our DUTY is to others
And restrains us quite immensely

But I feel that you complete me
The lonely void in my life now filled
I refuse to think much of the ‘morrow
For to lose you will surely bring much sorrow

So suffice it to say,
I am loving you
But holding him
Because for us, there is no other way

 A Mother’s Tribute
September 1994
Julie L. Diaz

The day you came to us
Made us so nervous
Even with uncertainty set in
We still thought we might win
Against that dark, sad shadow
Which only a few unlucky will ever know

We were not really prepared for you
For it was fifteen weeks before you were due
Even your beloved name had not yet been chosen
For when I look back, Time seems to have been frozen

Modern Medicine did its best to buy time
Although your precious birth was not a crime
Mommy’s body could wait no longer
If only Time had allowed your body to grow stronger

So here you were at last
Although you came to us way too fast
You were perfectly formed, each finger and toe
So what we were to face would come as a blow

Although you were so early
We thought you would make it quite surely
But what Medicine calls simply “unfortunate”
The Cerebral Hemorrhage occurred in the flash of a minute

Medicine may have been able
To prolong that dreaded inevitable
But Mommy and Daddy loved you too much
To let you endure the gruesome pain as such

So the hardest and saddest decision we had to make
And oh the hearts it was to forever break
But Mommy knew your name had been called
Jesus came and took you home as I sat and bawled

I can still feel in my heart
That moment when I held you before you were to depart
And although it will be a short while
I know I will someday see your sweet smile

And when we finally meet face to face
It will be in that wonderful place
Where Jesus has so lovingly kept you in His care
My precious little Ryan I did once bear