Shades of Life

Birth


We are born,
Dependent on love and care

Childhood
Walking, talking, schooling, lessons we learn

Grown
Working, loving, making mistakes,
Teaching our own

Elderly
Happiness, sadness, sickness
Our history we see
From all who follow
The family tree


    Motherhood

    She is a 14 year old baby
    having a baby,
    alone and scared
    in a hospital labor room

    A doctor, how can he have this calling
    When he wants to teach
    The little girl a lesson

    As the young girl suffers
    Through hours of labor
    This man who calls himself a doctor
    Gives no medication
    to relieve her from the pain....
    she must endure

    The little girl so fragile herself
    Finally delivers
    A baby girl
    And begins Motherhood


    "Wedding Picture"

    Painting, the picture
    The canvas of life,
    beginning this day
    becoming man and wife

    Dipping the brush, we begin
    Our work of art,
    From this moment until
    Death do us part

    Starting with pastels
    Touches of red and blue
    Flashes of orange,
    Streaks of green and purple too

    In the finished portrait
    There will be silver and gold
    For sickness and health,
    To have and to hold

    Finally a dab of white
    Dark shadows complete
    Our picture of married life


    "My Baby"

    You have been given to me
    I promise to love and care
    I will teach you the lessons of life
    I will always be there

    I hold you as you sleep
    I touch your tiny face
    With my fingers your eyes,
    Nose and face I trace

    Your hands and your feet
    I check them all
    You are so perfect
    My child my love
    As I hold you,
    I thank my loving God from above


    "A Mothers Love"

    When I was born
    The voice I heard
    Was the same one
    It was you Mom
    The one who hummed to me
    And told me I would be loved

    When I was a child,
    It was you Mom,
    Who taught me right from wrong
    How to give and take
    And to get along

    When I was a young adult
    It was you Mom
    Who taught me to do
    A day's work for a day's pay
    To search for the silver lining
    And to find a rainbow
    After a rainy day

    And now that I am grown
    I watch as you still teach
    It is you Mom
    Telling me to never give up
    It's possible to get
    What's just beyond my reach
    It is you Mom
    I thank you
    For the gifts you gave,
    The love, the understanding,
    The forgiveness, the thoughtfulness
    And to know that God blesses
    A Mothers Love


    "Father Time"

    While your Dad is with you
    Why not spend one hour with him
    Go to visit or make a call

    While he is living
    He is your link to the past
    He knows the answers
    To the questions you will ask

    Take the time to forgive and let go
    As the man you have become, he will know
    Sometimes the hardest thing a man will do
    Is to say dad.... I love you

    As a youth we are taught to be strong
    Inside we kept rights, which were wrong
    The grudges we carried, the pain we did hide
    Feeling of self-worth and stubborn pride

    When a father is gone
    And the memories are sweet, bitter and sour
    A man thinks to himself
    I wish I could see my dad for just one more hour


    "Just Like a Little Girl"

    She is so sweet
    Her smile so bright and cheery
    It can't be beat

    A laugh and a special little giggle
    She walks with a bouncy step
    Her ponytail moves with a jiggle

    Watching her as she jumped the ocean waves
    Holding my hand, seeing the excitement
    showing in her eyes all ablaze

    Her smile was out of this world
    This woman of mine,
    Spinning around in a whirl
    Making me the happiest man alive
    She was just like a little girl


    "Saving Me"

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