The Michigan Times

(To my girls: Caroline Tendall, Aimee Cain, Jacynda Smith, Jennifer Tarrance, and Siobhan Williams) If I could I would turn back the clocks And relive all of those moments of us Together Over and over The times we laughed And even the times we cried Mean so much more to me now Than I thought they ever would Moments Are what we live for Every day Oh, if I capture all of those Moments One by one And put them in a bottle I would get drunk on them Every day For the rest of my life If I knew I would never be with You again But I don't know that And I don't know that you feel The same All I do know Is that I love you And I don't have the power To turn the clocks back And I don't have the strength To hold the tears back But I hope the tears of today Will someday be the moments of Tomorrow When we'll be together laughing Or crying Or both All over again.…

We take for granted our time at home We take for granted our times alone We take for granted our safety and cheer Until we're away and there is such sadness and fear This time away has caused me to think About our lives together, our bond, our link Things around us change and so do we Our thought, our goals, our hopes, how we see Our outlook on life becomes more clear And more than all of this, my love for you more dear The time will pass slowly on some of the days And life will change in so many ways Know that in this time my love for you will grow stronger Soon I'll be home and the void will be no longer.…

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while. So when you are lonely, remember it's true Somebody somewhere is thinking of you. …

I can ignore the presence of God, no more than I can ignore the presence of light on a clear warm morning. This force surrounds my soul; it permeates my fighting mind; it stabilizes my every thought. Can one see systems, can one see consistency, can one see commonality, can one see purpose, without the thought of this Master? Although at times my world says yes; you are just an accident of probability; a hopeless wandering train unaware of your tracks, without an engineer to guide you.…

It snowed on the sun Create Frozen Inferno Ice caps formed Over oceans of fire The clouds above whispered Your name as they cried And their crystal tears dropped Into the boiling ice …

Have you ever leaned back on a warm summers night? To stretch and relax in the bright moonlight. I tell you right now, it cleanses your soul! The sounds and sensations begin to unfold! If you listen and feel for all that's around you; all that's discovered will surly astound you! The darkness reveals all that's alive.…

Her name was Yemoja, she was named after the Yoruba Goddess of the sea and quite appropriately. Her native ebony skin shined translucently and she spoke my native tongue so fluently.Her eyes probed my frontal lobe with razor sharp accuracy. Her eyes cut through my thoughts so sharply, so precisely,i called her lady sniper.…