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Dear Child of Mine

Posted by Heather's Starting End on December 16, 2013
Posted in: beauty, belief, Family, life, love, Moms, poetry, Uncategorized, youth. Tagged: , , , , , , . 3 Comments

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Dear Child, don’t fret
Your days are not short

You have all the time in the world
Don’t run to be where I am now
for wisdom you think that  I hold

I would crawl backwards if I could
for the innocence in your eyes
To see the world again unclothed
nary a face with disguise

Dear Child of mine
Enjoy your stay
harvest all  days you have
Treasure this moment, this time of your life
of purity unscathed

If I spoke with wisdom of my years
then you would be told
I’d give it all, right here, right now
To see life with your soul

Gaze of Endearment

Posted by Heather's Starting End on December 9, 2013
Posted in: belief, love, Men, Partner, poetry, Uncategorized. Tagged: , , , , , . 8 Comments

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I look in your eyes, you look into mine

But do we really see what is there?

Do we see what we know

Or just hopes and dreams

With but a gaze of endearment so fair

Is this exchange that we speak

With unspoken word

Really a truth at all

Is what’s heard with the eyes

What the heart really bares

Can I trust that you won’t let me fall

Please don’t look again

Till I strengthen my heart

From the powerful sight of you

Please just look again

When I know we won’t part

And forever your love’ll be true

Accept Beauty

Posted by Heather's Starting End on December 5, 2013
Posted in: ageing, beauty, belief, life, love, poetry, Uncategorized, winter, youth. Tagged: , , , , , . 10 Comments

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There is a Beauty  in the gift of growing older, yes

A Beauty beyond any physical sense

Captured in our eyes as we’ve watch our Children grow

The towering Oak tree once small planted, the lush garden of our once new Home

Beautiful thoughts kindle from sweet memories of our life

An accumulated definition of love only obtainable as years go by

Youthful beauty has  been replaced

Although the mirror we see each morning at dawn can discourage

As our face mimics a progressed time lined with many Tales

It has been aged from perseverance as well as defeat, from sorrow as well as joy

Our Life and it’s travels only now shows

Beauty has altered but fear not, it’s still there

Look outside around you and inside your soul

Beauty is a gift that never grows old

The Power of Adversity

Posted by Heather's Starting End on October 28, 2013
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We are amazing. Amazing how we adjust and come together as Families, Partners and Friends. With each a past with a stone or boulder set in our way to navigate over or around.

My Children lost their Father when the oldest was 10 and my twins just turned 6. I last “saw” my Birth Mom when I was 3 days old. Was this a root we lost , or just a restructuring of how our tree would be just a bit different, our way, not traditional.

When faced with the eye of a future that will not be as one planned, we have a choice. We can fall down broken, or come back fierce and rebuild a life that once again, thrives on harmony and balance. We chose the latter.

Friendships light the darkest hours, love is reborn with the right partner…our tree grows. Grander and stronger than we ever dreamed possible. We are not traditional in the truest sense, but we have been there and back again, and wouldn’t trade what we have for the world.

Adversity. Without it, we would never have the fortune of learning our souls.

Life is good. Again.