Written on November 20th, 2009 by shammieno shouts
“Love” by Roy Croft
I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.
I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.
I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you
For putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.
I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.
I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.
You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all.
In times of loneliness, on you I lean
Like a child, safe and secure in between
During nights alone, on you I muse
Recalling every time we are together I get amused
In times of pain, on you I trod
Like a sheep pacified by his master’s trod
All my pain you have taken away
I wish you’d always be here to stay
In times of trouble, on you I depend
Like a chick depending on it’s mother’s tend
You guidw and help me in everything I do
What would I do without you!
Is it your will that your image should keep me wakeful at night? that my sleep should be broken while shades of you hunt my sight? Is it your spirit that you send so far from home, to see how ill I’ve spent my time, the aim and scope of your suspicion? No, your love is not so strong. It is my love that keeps me awake, my won true love that cheats me of my rest to play watchman over you. I keep watch of you while you are awake elsewhere, far off from me with others all too near…
When I am dead, do not mourn for me longer, then you shall hear the sullen bell give warning that I am gone from the world to dwell with the worms. If you read these lines, do not even remember the hand that wrote it, for I love you, so if thinking of me will make you grieve, I would rather be forgotten from your thoughts. If you should look upon these verses when I perhaps am blended with clay, do not even recall my name, but let your love decay with my life. Lest the wise world should pry into my grief and mock you with my name after I am gone.
♥ Damn these eyes that seeks to see you. Damn these hands that yearns to hold you. Damn this mind that thinks only about you. But most of all, damn you for making me fall in love with you.
♥ Don’t ask the sun to always shine, it can’t. Night exists. Don’t ask the leaves not to fall, they can’t. Wind Exists. Don’t ask me not to fall in love, I can’t. You exist.
♥ Don’t be too good, I might miss you. Don’t be too caring, I might like you. Don’t be too sweet, I might fall for you. It’s hard for me to love you when you won’t love me after all.
♥ I can’t tell you I love you, I can’t tell you I care. I can’t tell you my feelings, but I know they’re there. I can’t tell you I want you, coz I want you to stay. If I tell you omy emotions, you might go away…
♥I’ll never lose hope on you because I chose you to give my heart to. If you’re always the reason why my heart aches, who cares? You’re still the very reason why my heart beats anyway…
♥ I was finally getting over you, believing we were never meant to be. I had crushes other than you.. I walked away with my head high thinking I wasn’t going to fall… but then you smiled, and ruined it all.
♥ I wonder why just when I learned to wait, it was then you never came. Just when I learned to laush, it was then you made me cry. And just when I learned to love you, it was then you walked away..
♥ It’s really hard not to talk to you, when I want to.. So hard not to see you when I need to.. So hard not to be with you when I long for you.. And so damn hard not to miss you, when I always do..
♥ Sometimes I smile to hide the pain. Sometimes I laugh to hide the sadness. Sometimes I shout to let the pain out but no matter what I do, I just can’t hide the feeling that I miss you.
♥ There was one time you fell in love with someone. You told yourself that you wouldn’t give up on that person. One day you did. Why? Because you never really know how much love could hurt.
♥ When I met you, I was afraid to talk to you. When I talked to you, I was afraid to hold you. When I held you, I was afraid to love you. Now that I love you, I am afraid to lose you…
♥ Why is it easy to fall in love & yet so hard to be loved back? Why should I feel such, if destiny promises me not? Why do I have to fall if i’ts you I can’t have? Why is there a you and me but never an US?
♥ Why say “hi” when you mean “I miss you”? Why say “let’s go out” if you can say “I wanna be with you”? Why say “stay” if you can say “be with me”? and why say “I care” when your heart says “I love you”?
♥ You said you liked me, I laughed. You told me you care, I smiled. You told me you miss me, I teased you. But now I tell you, I love you, you just smiled and said I’m already in love with someone else.
♥ I placed kisses in my hands, closed my fist tight and opened my hands to the world. So if someday you’ll think of me out of the blue, it’s because they finally found their way to you.
♥ If I grow old and think of how my life’s been, I’d think of the pains I’ve been through and how the world tried to make me down. Then I remember the day I met you, and I smiled because maybe it wasn’t so bad after all.
“I cannot change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination” – Jimmy Dean (b. 1928), musician, entrepreneur
“It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), poet
Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. – William A. Foster
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. ”
Albert Einstein (1875-1955), theoretical physicist, philosopher (1875-1955)
“You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.” – Malcolm S. Forbes,Publisher
