For as long as I live

The dreams that flickeredand faded like a dying candle light.Our yesterday’s loves are all gone nowleaving no trace they had ever beenexcept within the flickering pagesof our memory.We have climbed many mountainsand they became lost from view.Our young hearts were fickle thenin those far of days of our youth.

saying Happy Birthdayor Happy Anniversary to someone.However, the most unusual oneI have ever come acrosswas tied to a fenceopposite some traffic lights,so when you stoppedit stood out like a beacon lightand written on ityou might well ask.It read,congratulation on gettingthe all clear at the VD clinic,and the names of those concernedwas written below.Now when the…

a writer of songs, poems, short stories and novels?In reality, I do not know, but I tell everyone who asksit was simply a mistake I made.Many will say I had it in me,that I was born to do it.Remembering how it startedI am not so sure of that.It started with the words to a friendif…

I didn’t want them in years to come,to haunt me with memories of you.Our car in which we used to travel,around to see our friends,I sold so I could get something new,that didn’t hold the perfume of you.The house would have to go,too many memories,of you lingering there,and they are too hard to bear.Just another…

The picture is always changingFrom dawn to duskAnd as each season come to callWinter, spring, summer and fallWinter with its blanket of whiteThat covers every living thingIcicles sparkle like jewels under a cold days sunSpring sees a sea of greenAnd with it new life begins to stirFrom every living thingSummer captivates with coloursThe flying things…

giving up this and thatfor a couple of days at leastuntil our willpower gives wayto the temptations all aroundand we start down that slippery slopeuntil the next year comes aroundwhen once again we will try againhoping next year we succeed.1 January 2014