There are days when I want to

If one day you do, embrace itand never let it slip through your fingersor it will never come to you again.Now this is my story of the two second chances that I gotand how I embraced them without regret.The story begins half a century ago when I was a teenager.I was a very shy boyand…

One eye was brown and the other blue.Her hair was all the colours of the rainbow.She had ruby red lips,and a waxy complexion.She looked like something,the cat had dragged in,after a bad night on the tiles.She had a double chin,that wobbled a bit.Her nose looked like,it was glued into place.She had a pin in her…

There behind the farmhouse was an old wooden shackThe outhouse stood tall and noble out backOne had a good idea for a jolly spoof‘Lets lift the outhouse and put it the up on the roof.’‘But which roof, there are several there? ’The others looked and grinned ear to ear‘Lets stick it on the barn, there…

The gates enfold of sadnessfor a lost friend.Hear the mighty trumpets blowits last cord of silencebefore the clouded darknesssurround the black.Through the years that were shortcompared with the final infinitythere were joysbeyond the reaches knownand sadness to whom know have gone.Home was just a bedwhere freedom died,though our course wasn’t straight,neither was it crooked,but friends…

and there are many kinds of silence.There is the tense silence on battlefieldsheard just before an attack begins.The relaxing silence at the end of the daywhen the world seems a million miles awayand then there is the ignoring silence.This comes when people you want to talk tobut whom turn away and talk to someone elseleaving…

then the lie bursts, and finally the truth comes out.It is always the innocent victimsof the lie that get hurt,never the propitiators of it.The innocent ones who feel the guiltwhen they have done nothing wrong.They feel ashamed for somethingthey had no part in.A dark cloud hangs over themand questions torment their mind.They feel the shamethat…