For Gordon

As some one once said,

 

There is no present, only the recent past and the immediate future.

 

 

 

In days gone past, she laughed with me

and told me things beyond my years.

It took awhile before I heard

and longer still before I grasped

the temporary condition of life.

 

The wisdom of years I hardly heard,

until there reached a point

When time's cruel hand was wiping clean

my oh so recent past

 

And frantically, I searched my mind,

for one small thing to hold

and felt the comfort in my soul

in echoes of days gone past.

 

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6/21/06

 

What you will someday be, you are now becoming.

DollyBelle Swafford   R.I.P

 

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Poem for Penny

 

I thought that it was over

and time had rang the bell

but it stretched on and on

Why ... I can not tell

 

It seems that there was something

in life still left to live,

Some little word of comfort

that was mine alone to give

 

Still,  some some saddened faces 

that I could cause to smile

some lost and lonely soul

who's name was in my file.

 

And so until that time

and you know, we never know

I'll just keep on keeping on

Until it's time to go.

 

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6/22/06