Hello friends! Its 2001. The beginning of a brand new year, and, if you wanted to be mathematically correct, the beginning of a brand new millenium, or so say those "in the know". The beginning of each year, should be a time for reflection, a time for rejuvenation, and most of all, be viewed as a second chance. In truth, our lives are filled with second chances, yet most times we are too blind to see and let them slip away. Why hold out for tomorrow, what you can do today? Why wait to say sorry to those we may have hurt, for tomorrow may be too late.
Time has told me
And time has told me
Time has told me
In you I see the splendour of valley’s blue and deep In you I see the mystery, my heart so longs to feel In you I see the wonder of beauty real and true In you I’ve come to realize, untold treasures I have found
Don’t be dismayed at good-bye’s
Deep down in the depths of forgotten dreams
As I traced the foam with the pebbles beneath my feet
She stared at me and my mind was in a maze
One moment we walked with the night breeze in our face,
Sometime when the summer nights come back
"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years"
Such deep emotions rule my heart
You have shown me love, you have shown me light
It’s hot, it sears, it excites and it pains
It taunts and torments, holds hostage and deceives
It humbles, it amazes, it allows the heart to take flight
“I love you” she whispered as she put down the phone and looked out into the dark, empty night.
Across rooftops and trees, across sky lights she gazed as her heart seemed to reach out to him
Then she turned from the window, cast her glance to the wall, wiped a lone tear as it slid down her cheek
And then as she heard it, her phone purring softly, the message she’d longed for was there.
Their destinies were certain, their love was not questioned, they both knew that this was for real.
I've been a busy girl....no, not here on this page, but out here in life...in my life. I've been busy getting an airline ticket...bank transferrals and maybe even travellers cheques. (will depend how Monday turns out) Why? Well because i'm off to meet the man of my dreams....the love of my life. I wonder, if you've been following my page at all, if you have noticed the slight change to the trend of my poetry? Notice the slight move away from the morbid of late? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why does it? You need only read the poetry to know what's going on in my life.
I want to cry, I want to scream, I want, I don't quite know.
A second chance is truly a blessing in disguise, and should be utilized to its fullest. The start of a new year is a chance to make right that which went wrong the year before, to tell those you love how you feel and to show your friends how much you really care. You have 365 days a year in which to prove it.
Don’t let the schedule of a hectic lifestyle allow you to miss out on the beauty of life. Stop and appreciate that which is around you. Take in the smell of the rain, close your eyes and listen to the sound of the birds. For we have been lucky enough to receive another year with 4 seasons, each bringing its own spectacular wonder.
Strive for your dreams, nothing, if dedicated enough, is out of reach. Make time each day to meditate on the good in your life, and pretty soon, you will see that you have so much to be grateful for.
My wish for you my friend for 2001, is Live, live your life as if you know you have been given a second chance. Why throw it away?
You're a rare find
A troubled cure
For a troubled mind.
Not to ask for more
Someday our ocean
Will find its shore.
You came with the dawn
A soul with no footprint
A rose with no thorn
~~© Nick Drake~~
1969
In you
Of oceans not yet conquered
Of memories to keep
Of nights draped in shadows
Of secrets to reveal
Like snowflakes on a leaf tip
Like early morning dew
Like pearls deep in the oceans
And scattered diamonds on the ground.
~~© Bernadette~~
04/01/2001
a farewell is necessary before you can meet again…
and meeting again,
after moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
~~ © Richard Bach ~~
~~ Illusions ~~
So far away so long it seems
The memory comes of a distant beach
Pale sand stretching far from reach
It was there I found my princess of the sand.
I looked behind, and I saw this one so sweet
She came to me and I saw in her eyes
the heavy toll of a thousand sighs
I called her my princess of the sand.
As we moved along in a summer dream-haze
She moved her mouth but there came no sound
The message she brought can never be found
But I called her my princess in the sand.
Then I looked, she'd gone, of her presence there was no trace.
Where she went or came from who can know
Or if she'll return to help me know
Who she is, my princess in the sand.
I'll go to the sea, and I'll follow that sandy track
I'll look around, and I'll hope to find
That strange young dream, close behind
I'll call her my princess in the sand.
~~© Nick Drake~~
~~© Richard Bach~~
Crash
It’s difficult to explain
You fill me with such sweet longing
Totally obliterating the pain.
Your warmth, your love it leads me
To heights never before achieved
The emotions that overwhelm me
So much more than I believed.
No words could ever comprehend
This love I have for you
No words could ever quite express
These emotion’s deep and true.
Feeling’s like a roller coaster
Crashing headlong into my heart
Mixed tears of pain and loving
Knowing we will never part.
~~© Bernadette~~
13/01/2001
Show me
You have shown me that I can
You have shown me that perhaps things work
All according to a plan
You have taught me life’s sweet mystery
Shown me the beauty of the day
You have taken me to the pinnacle
Of the desires I contain
You have shown me what I thought was lost
Made me believe once more in fate
You have shown me, that with all these things
Nothing is too late
You have shown me once more to believe
In a love buried far and deep
You have taught me that forever
Is a certainty I will reap.
~~© Bernadette~~
13/01/2001
It is
It confuses, it hurts, it tantalizes the brain
It uplifts, it inspires, its tempts and can tease
And holds on so tightly, begging to please
It surrenders you helpless, that you cannot leave
It wrenches your heart, leaves it exposed on the ground
Then picks it up with such tenderness, like a jewel that’s been found
It captures the essence of a thousand moonlit nights
It is all these things that love means to me
And I wait, arms outstretched, allowing it to be
~~© Bernadette~~
14/01/2001
Across so many miles
Her hands in her hair, she pondered and stared at the moon as it cast yellow light
Across so many miles that the oceans divide, to the place that his presence did fill.
Awaiting one final message, one final goodbye, from her lover before she could sleep.
She smiled as she read it. He hadn’t forgotten and her eyes closed knowing he cared.
And soon time would show them, no distance would beat them, and their arms round each other they’d feel
~~© Bernadette~~
13/02/2001
Update
February 17, 2001
I've been getting emails like crazy from some or other fortune reader, or physic or astrologer...I dunno what you want to call her, telling me that she knows how my life is about to change..that in March, will be the change that will change my life forever. Best part, is she wants me to pay her, just so i can hear exactly how, when...etc... I think I should email her back and tell her to shut up. I already know how my life has changed, is about to change and boy oh boy..how i'm looking forward to it. He makes me happier than i've ever been. And that's no lie. Last year, April, my life changed drastically from how I knew it. Now, i'm off to England, to meet him, and I know its about to change drastically again. Even more so than last time. And i'm ready for it.
I Want
I want this all to surround me, a million ways I want to show.
I want this devine ecstacy to take me all the way
I want so much to tell you, I want, I want to say,
I want, I want to tell you, I want so bad to tell
You of the way i'm feeling, how badly I have fell.
If poetry could explain, in words of how I feel,
I want, I want to say it, and maybe yet I will.
If words could just come flowing, if somehow there was a way
I want so much to find them , I want you to hear me say.
I want to say "I love you", I want you to know my heart.
I want, I want so badly, for us to never part.
I want what I have now, I want with every pore.
I want your arms around me. Now and forever more.
~~© Bernadette~~
24/02/2001
