I started writing "A Book of Verse" in 1976. . . . . . 5 years after we tragically lost my three year old daughter, my five month old son and my 21 year old sister in law. We almost lost our 2 year old son also but his aunt saved his life. My ex-wife accidentally killed her only sister and two of our children. It was a single car accident and she was sober.

A Book of Verse

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Copyright © 2009 My son Michael
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4389-7656-3

Chapter One

10/76 I am my feelings If I choose to swallow them I become less

How can I truly love you If I do not love me first?

11/76 Never judge a book by its cover ... Nor the first page

12/18/76 I think Therefore I am, (Descartes) I feel Therefore I LIVE

It's not that people can not love It's just sad Because they choose To keep it inside.

5/77 Pregnancy A woman carries a child In her womb and in her soul

A man only in his soul...... And always will.

5/77 People fall in love They don't jump Or at least They shouldn't jump.

7/77 YOUR Power: Every person has the power To do good or to do evil To be kind or to be cruel To love or to hate All you need Is to choose.

What's YOUR Choice?

9/24/77 How can I expect God to understand me If I refuse to Understand you?

How can I expect God to accept me If I refuse to Accept you?

How can I expect God to forgive me If I refuse to Forgive you?

And how can I expect God to love me If I refuse to Love you?

11/77 We all stop feeling When we stop living

We all stop "living" When we refuse to feel.

12/12/77 Words of wisdom Are mere words If I choose Not to follow them.

12/17/77 To truly share my life with you I must share my feelings

I can not fully share Feelings of joy Unless I share Feelings of sorrow.

For the heart can not choose It can only feel. (for Deborah)

4/29/79 If I come to loose everyone Who I ever loved, I will still have God, my neighbor and me to love.

4/29/79 Lord Jesus, may my life Leave a small part Of YOUR love On this earth Amen.

4/29/79 When we bring some happiness Into someone else's life We live as true Children of God.

6/1/79 We live what we give If we give hatred We live hatred.

If we give nothing We live nothing.

If we give love We live love.

Before you rise from your bed each day Thank God for the gift of a new day.

Before you sleep, ask God to grant you "Another Day, My Lord"

Another day to live, to give, to love.

Do this and you will find real fulfillment.

6/3/79 Always, always take comfort in this Truth: That everything that touches you Touches God.

6/8/79 Why does an all merciful, all loving God Permit evil, injustice and suffering?

He doesn't

We do.

He created this earth And left us in charge.

6/18/79 If you have health, wealth and fortune And have not Love You have rubbish None of which you will take with you.

Love is the greatest risk in life But Love is also the greatest reward.

6/21/79 If someone you love Does not accept your love Does not cherish or respect your love,

There is a WORLD With many people who need it. With many people who will take it. With many people who will cherish it.

With many people who will give it back to you.

7/7/79 Love is only wasted When it is not given.

7/17/79 Love is something like a garden

If you water it with compassion If you weed it out with understanding, With patience and forgiveness, All will draw much sustenance

From it's bountiful harvest.

7/22/79 If you just keep trying to forgive others Like Jesus forgives you, Then you will one day share All the joys of eternity With Him in Heaven.

7/22/79 Care is for caring Give is for giving Forgive is for giving Life is for living And Love is for loving.

8/31/79 If death teaches me anything Grant that it teaches me That I know not How much time I have here To work, to give, to live And to love here.

9/23/79 Surely, if Jesus was not God made man, He was the most loving human To walk the face of this earth.

For this alone We should take up His teachings We should learn from Him We should imitate Him.

9/24/79 When you were young Your father and mother on earth Guided you.

One day they will leave this earth

Yet rest assured Your Father and Mother in Heaven Were, are and always will be

Here, to guide you.

10/6/79 How should we handle The trials, the problems That life gives us?

The way Jesus would.

11/3/79 Before you sleep Give thanks.

After you wake Give.

11/19/79 To live well Give well.

12/20/79 This Christmas May you open your heart And receive The greatest Christmas gift

The Gift of Christ.

1/3/80 Communication ends misunderstanding Generosity ends greed Forgiveness ends vengeance Kindness ends cruelty Goodness ends evil And Love ends hatred.

1/12/80 No, time won't heal A broken hearted me.

Only Love From me From people From God Will.

1/14/80 There is no such thing As a dumb question

Only people afraid to ask Only people who do learn nothing By not asking.

1/19/80 Some of the prettiest people Will not attract you

Some of the most attractive people Are not all that pretty.

4/17/80 One of the nicest things About a smile Is that it is contagious by nature.

See what I mean?

4/18/80 I think Therefore I am, (Descartes).

I feel Therefore I live, (me on 12/18/76)

I love Therefore I live eternally.

4/22/80 Take good care of your body For you will dwell within it For the rest of your life here

Take even better care of your spirit For it is the only thing You will take with you When your life here is over.

4/28/80 Tears are the body and souls way Of washing away sorrow Love yourself enough To let them flow.

5/10/80 Being alone is a physical state Being lonely an emotional...