"Accolades For Valor" by Matthew Johnson (1993): "She goes through life, gliding, a benevolent seer/ Stopping constantly to aid those in need, those not even dear/ I, an individual, swept up in the storm/ Of a woman, who, in search of herself, defies the norm/ As I, an outcast, fighting myself, yet daring to believe/ That if I ask her aid and succor (and possibly love) she won’t leave/ Giving her heart, mind and soul to every known cause/ Causing me to look about my selfish malestrom, and in introspection give pause/ For all her words, she won’t write about me, does she fail to perceive/ What the object knows to be true and what make believe—/ Words rarely present, presence much more of one/ Is to wish for more as good as wishing for the sun?/ Energy is precious, as I know well to be true/ And I am curious to know, Lorraine, what I can ask of you/ Names are important, they make us who we are/ Much more important than people give credit, by far/ The masses may cry “Lori!” and let them do so!/ For the numbers who call that cannot understand/ They will never know the Lorraine inside, the one crying to live/ Will be forever frustrated by those whose minds are like a sieve/ There may be those who rob her of her world, let them scratch the skin/ They are as pinpricks to the steel within/ These accolades are not exaggeration, not pretentious/ I Just want you to know that there is at least one who is conscious/ That the world is a better place for the life of a woman named Lorraine."

Sunday, August 03, 1997

Only In Looking Back

How can it be
that love is there,
but the two of us
are lost somewhere
beyond the point of no return,
leaving so much to be learned?

Can't he see
what he has?
Can he only see

the greener grass;
A mirage in the mist,
whose image will fade quick?

This dream--a simple phase;
a fantasy of fun-filled days,
when he might have that for a while,
but I won't have his smile,
and he won't have mine,
when it is finally time.

Someday, he'll look back;
his eyes finally open wide,
and he'll wonder how he could have given up
when he had true love on his side;
when he lived life with his true best friend;
when to every need, she would tend;
when she was willing to give all;
when they could've scaled every wall;

He'll never find in his life,
someone who loves him,
as did his wife,
but I won't have his smile,
and he won't have mine,
when it is finally time.

August 3, 1997

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