WELCOME

..and here are a few things to keep in mind:

This blog contains mostly my poetry and a few thoughts from time to time. The thoughts will be entered when and wherever I feel necessary to keep things in proper order. Thoughts and things not belonging to me will be denoted with asterisks. Poems will be archived by the date which they were written, not by that which they were posted. I tend to update things a month or few after being written so as to keep current issues from wandering unattended around the web.

Enjoy...

[somberlife was first created July 11, 2004]


“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


Saturday, November 30, 2002

Poems

Poems are my diary,
I write differently than most.
People ask if they can read,
Usually, no…
Again, it’s like my diary.
No one reads one,
So the other?


Sometimes they rhyme,
Sometimes they are just thoughts
broken by a new line.
I write what I think,
feel,
have felt,
see,
and anything else.

Whether others would understand,
I doubt.
But I get my meaning
just fine.

My One, My Only

What happens when he finds out
I’ve deceived him, not intentionally,
But I have, no doubt.
Will he forgive me? Learn to live with me?
Or will our love fade-out?
He’ll begin to know the real me.
When the time comes, I won’t hold out.
I will show my true self then,
Every day; day in, and day out.
Although I’ve changed,
Will he still remain devout?
Would he be changed too?
Or would I already know him over and out?
I would hope, me, he could stand,
Because on him, my love would be sold out,
My one, my only,
Forever and ever, an end without.

Friday, November 29, 2002

My Story

Turning endless pages of this tragedy,
My life; here today, gone tomorrow.
All my experiences, from my Lord I borrow.

Good moments, and bad too,
They're all apart of my history,
Planed by God, for me; My story.

Through all that has happened,
And that which has yet to come,
A better Christian I will become.