{"id":23,"date":"2015-05-18T08:03:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T08:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2018-03-04T22:27:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:27:03","slug":"love-volume-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/love-volume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Love. Volume Two."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-130 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.poemsforpatti.com\/love\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/clearicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"339\" \/>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 36pt;\">Love<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Volume Two<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><u>CONTENTS<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#1\">Chains Bind My Heart (Valentine&#8217;s Day 2015)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#2\">Each Moment of Magic<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#3\">44th Anniversary Poem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#4\">When Angels Pray and Love<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#5\">Heart of the Angel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#6\">A Burden Upon My Angel<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#7\">Honored Husband<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#8\">Words Fly<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"#9\">Crown of a King and Queen<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"1\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Chains Bind My Heart (Valentine&#8217;s Day 2015)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The years have crept slowly by, yet somehow the years have rapidly flown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The years have proven how much my heart belongs to the only love I&#8217;ve known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Chains bind my heart to an everlasting belief that no other love could possibly do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s not heaven I seek, yet I find an angel each morning when I wake next to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each breath you take away from me is yours to keep and I will give you more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">At night I want to be with you more than before because you&#8217;re the one I adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">With one kiss all of my dreams came true when I received that love kiss from you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No man felt as good as me as I drove my fifty-nine Ford down our hometown avenue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">With you at my side I was the King of Borger and I have remained that way so long,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Patti, I love you so much that when I am weak only you can make me feel strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am so in love with my little hometown girl, I ask you my angel, be mine tonight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Come lay at my side my beautiful little girl so we can make love into the night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You and me together is how it has been for nearly fifty years and I want even more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve dreamed of you every night, I swear it&#8217;s true, I love you more today than before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Teardrops fall as I think of your love given me; I&#8217;m grateful more than you will know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each night a kiss ignites my soul, with but a kiss my Valentine love will start to flow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">By Pat, for Patti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">For you my beautiful little girl, will you be my Valentine? I love you so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"2\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Each Moment of Magic<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each moment of magic in my life has seen a shooting star go by,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Or are they messages from heaven that fall through our night sky?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Subliminal thoughts that enter our mind brought from Angels above,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Is there one heavenly angel with special title as the Angel of Love?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From high upon a mountain top I thought of you in a land far away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I saw stars that seemed to dance as Angels would if they were at play,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Did words settle into my mind that were placed as the stars flew by,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Or are angels seen as falling stars as they fly through our earthly sky?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve asked this question in rhyme once before without thoughts of this,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps it was the time I wondered why an angel would give me a kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Sometimes it has looked as if the sky was sparkling like a magic wheel,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each time I saw those stars the magic of loving you became more real,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Sweet words of loving you embraced my lonely heart as well as my mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Memories of a question asked seemed to prove that love is truly blind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Promise&#8221; is what you&#8217;ve asked of me when asked if I would return,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Words that must have been placed by an angel for love I didn&#8217;t earn,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Asking that of me three times must mean such magic came from on high,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Once was when I had to go off to war and you brought tears to my eye,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Next was under a November sky when upon my return I again went away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">And last was upon my return when after vacation I promised I would stay,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Yes, Angels are seen as falling stars as they leave heaven to enter our sky,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Not everyone is seen as such for a disguise must be clever to escape our eye,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You are my angel and though denied by you I know you came from the blue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Miracles and an Angel&#8217;s kiss must come from heaven for me to be loved by you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, by Pat. For Patti. I love you my sweet little angel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"3\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">44th Anniversary Poem<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If my heart was a shell sitting on a shelf and you placed it to your ear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps you&#8217;d hear an ocean that kept me from you for over a year,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">More likely than the ocean you&#8217;d hear me whisper words soft but clear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">They&#8217;d be the words of a lifetime of love to say happy anniversary dear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Words of beautiful rhyme I&#8217;ve placed upon this pad for only you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I remember words I wrote long ago so afraid you didn&#8217;t feel it too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Touch me not if love has no place within thy precious fingertips,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Yet, your eyes reveal my hopes of love as I near your ambrosian lips,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Oh my! To my eyes you were the fairest of maidens I had known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How many times did I write sweet words that were never shown?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It must be a thousand or more until I again landed upon our shore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The kiss that launched a thousand ships pales to the kiss I adore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It must have been Cupid&#8217;s bow that lit within my vacant heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From that first magical kiss was born a love that will never depart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Lava that erupts from mountain tops would need to flow evermore,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To match the heat of my love, a flame so intense it melts earth&#8217;s core,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Unicorn horns are so rare indeed they must be created by magic wand,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If rare itself were to become rare it would pale compared to our bond,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Look to the stars at heaven&#8217;s brim to view our place in the far beyond,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">View heaven from my eyes to see my angel and feel my heart respond,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I can&#8217;t explain what I don&#8217;t know yet I try to say so with little words I say,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I speak of sunshine brought by a smile and bright eyes each wonderful day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To gaze into your eyes touches my soul and brings emotions in flow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Your hands hold the sensations I seek but from your touch I&#8217;m set aglow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Eyes closed with heart open wide I find your love each day as for so very long,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each day I seek more love than I felt yesterday in my never ending love song,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">True it is, I feel the songs of heaven&#8217;s choirs backed with harps and violin in tune,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each time I kiss your lips and admire your breasts beneath another full moon,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let trumpets blare with beautiful notes departing heaven&#8217;s floor of love dance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">With harps and angel&#8217;s words in sync I remember the first time I took a chance,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Returned to me beyond my dreams came light from fate&#8217;s tower guiding my life,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">From angel&#8217;s lips came such need to survive, all this in life, from my angel wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end, November 7, 2014. 44 years of wonder and joy, happiness beyond<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">my wildest dreams. I love you Patti, by Pat. For Patti.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"4\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">When Angels Pray and Love<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How can it be that I&#8217;ve been submerged in this cloud for so very long?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The emptiness of pain&#8217;s ability to subtract from life&#8217;s reality is strong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How many seasons have passed since I succumbed to my inability to fight?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The strongest man alive I know is me; I know this thought process is right,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Angels gathered at my bed and challenged the evils of drugs and pain,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">One night with relentless aggressiveness the lead angel said in God&#8217;s name,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No longer will you control the man I love, we will find a way to press on,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Holding my hand she prayed as she did long ago when she feared I was gone,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Don&#8217;t challenge the reality of love&#8217;s ability to cure and bring courage home,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The tears of enormous regret of sins against this angel became known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How could I? What is wrong with a man when so much love is there for him?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Still she prays over and holds me ever so tight noticing arms frightfully thin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Visions of nights alone won&#8217;t allow her to lie down without him there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Through the night angels pray and she listens to every breath of his air,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Making sure he continues to struggle and battle as he has been known to do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">He lies with an angel as he has done for over forty years his miracle is due,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t hold yourself in such low regard,&#8221; she whispers lovingly to him,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though you are too weak to move, your mind will find a way to begin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Together you will walk the halls of torture and rebirth tethered to me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It is so sad to me that this angel is so hidden for the world to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">What she is, is the angel of my rebirth and my destined climb to success,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">She thinks she needs me knowing otherwise I&#8217;ve never told her I confess,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Take me home wrapped within golden wings of this beautiful creature of paradise,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let me lay down once more within her hold that I may whisper love likewise,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To lay with an angel I have vowed to fight and survive this hellish fight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Wings of gold will take me home to lay down with my angel another night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The holy water sprinkled from her hand empowers my soul and heart again,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Strength of her love and faith tell me with this angel near I am sure to win.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The end. Dedicated to Patti King. The angel of my life. I am proudly her husband.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Heart of the Angel<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Roses are red and violets are blue,&#8221; no other poems begin like this,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When I think of red roses it&#8217;s the same red as the lips that I kiss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Guitars strung softly with violins filling the air with heaven&#8217;s resound,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I waltz with my love upon marble laid floors as we spin round &#8216;n&#8217; round,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let me forever remain in the arms of this beauty I hold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Did you know the heart of this angel is made of pure gold?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When the songbirds awaken the world with a song so old,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">She awakens to the world with so much beauty to behold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Her precious love if known would be sought by all seeking amour,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It is this precious treasure that I continue to fight and live for,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If tomorrow should let word of such treasure be known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Suitors from all lands would soon arrive with desire shown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The enlightenment of emotions brought by her passions flow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Brings sensations of heart and mind not many men know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Wars have been fought, I have no doubt, for such as she is,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Fortunes would be spent by billionaires just to say she is his,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Roses are red and violets are blue,&#8221; no other poems are written like this,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When I think of red roses it&#8217;s the same red as the lips I used to miss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am a captive of her love of which I fear escape may someday come,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Behind a guarded door I once prayed to be forever with my loved one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Tomorrows bring today&#8217;s existence which means everything,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s a new beginning each day when the songbirds start to sing,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Most important is today&#8217;s actions in everything that I do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Days of importance to me are spent showing my love to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">May I forever waltz in your arms or just lay holding you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">She could have riches from famed suitors yet holds my love true,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As she gazes across the memories of her mind she finds me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am still marveled at what the eyes of loved angels see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let violins play soft and sweet while I whisper love to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As time moves the horizon I love to watch the sky turn blue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Mostly I love mornings because I love watching joy in you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Someday I pray I do things that bring morning joy to you, too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though I may lie in your arms at night, my heart waltzes with you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Deep inside plays hidden music with cellos, violins and harps, too,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My heart dances anytime I am near the angel of my dreams,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Only seasoned lovers can understand our shared love streams,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Roses are red and violets are blue,&#8221; yet no other poem ends like this,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The red of your lips and your hazel eyes I so desperately did miss,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So many lonely moments passed so long ago to become the past,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Let us dance with arms laced tight into a memory that will forever last,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I hold precious treasures in my arms when I hold you tight,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am the suitor chosen to waltz with you long into time&#8217;s night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Forever into time as the sand continually pours through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">This man will be eternally wealthy with love from and for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"6\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">A Burden Upon My Angel<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I wonder when two loves each other like we do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Are we chosen or are we just the very lucky few,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Within my veins the love I carry flows each day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s a pity that so much of my blood bleeds away,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A burden has been placed upon an angel loving me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In God&#8217;s design I wonder how such a burden can be,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps it&#8217;s her test to get into heaven this way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How can it be fair when she brings brightness today,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Her burden is my blessing in this cycle of life and time,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Does there have to be darkness so we can see the shine,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">It&#8217;s true so true that without the night the sun can&#8217;t be,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Darkness is the reality and the light comes artificially,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In this reckoning of my mind balance is easily found,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">There must be square somewhere for there to be round,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Prayer is the anomaly given from man&#8217;s faltering heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Most often it requires torment for the needy to start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Someday I pray to find the same beauty as in her mind,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If such could be seen I know it would be an incredible find,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No doubt heaven&#8217;s rainbows with gardenias perfume,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Would permeate the air bringing loving thoughts to bloom,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Peace for the worried with torment riding hard inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Inside her heart love for the unwanted does truly reside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A beautiful dream is hers and it is mine by being near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If I am harried beyond my ability to think crystal clear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">An angel of easy loving touches my mind in a beautiful way,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Such a work of God&#8217;s genius she finds sunshine every day,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Blessings from heaven are to be seen in the joy in her eyes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When I&#8217;m sad laughter of children&#8217;s unhindered hearts will arise,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Heaven is my joy if only I will forget the burdens inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I just need to look into the eyes of my sweet Texas bride,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My pains and torment may be many compared to other men,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">But in trying times I just look to my side for the joy to begin,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I&#8217;ve been rewarded to have the wings of an angel carrying me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When I find darkness she brightens my day so I can see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Deep in my heart I have an angel&#8217;s mark saying I belong to her,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">When asked if angels are truly God&#8217;s creatures I must concur,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Seeing is believing and I have seen the darkness become bright,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In the darkest of times this heavenly angel pulled me to the light,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Seeing is believing if evidence is needed when angels are near,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In time that is remaining I pray my Texas angel is always here.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"7\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Honored Husband<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My heart, so worn, has been to the world&#8217;s extremes,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No matter the fall, your love builds upon my esteem,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I can&#8217;t state the maximum affect from loving you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To place my blood in escape would be an honor to do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Defending your life and fall would be my greatest task,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Know love, this is not something an angel would ask,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Never have I turned my back on you to not see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No matter the action if in danger there I would be,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In the darkness of a club one night I put my life there,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Five men fell as you know, for my life I didn&#8217;t care,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Safely from the fray you escaped while I disarmed he,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I don&#8217;t raise the past for glory just that you see me,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Lay the blame on love; I don&#8217;t feel I do enough for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I remind you that if necessary I would follow through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Bless the hearts of warring men with valor in heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Courage is hard to find so that bravery may start,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Yet with no courage or bravery in heart love would do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Loving a woman with everything such as I love you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Will create the action in defense of her life if needed,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">He would do so no matter how his loved one pleaded,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My heart, so worn has the love to follow through for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In your defense of life there is nothing I wouldn&#8217;t do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A promise made is only words until actions prove it to be,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">There&#8217;s too much to say in verse, I just need you to see,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The seeds of life once dwelled within our beings to create,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">That need gone forces hearts to adjust and to relate,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Prosperity in marriage is consistent with love and faith,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Reciprocal feelings of love are easier in our actions to state,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">To lie dying with your hand upon my face would be honorable,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The truest act of love a man can give although it would be horrible,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Exhaustion of pain has gotten in the way of showing love to you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Lost in the space where a man escapes pain is easy to do,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am broken, I know, yet you give reason to overcome the hardships,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Sometimes it&#8217;s so simple such as a soft kiss from your lips,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My life is so filled with honor but not for anything I have done,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">I am honored to be the husband of my longtime dreamed one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"8\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Words Fly<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The words fly through my mind, yet I can&#8217;t grasp the correct one,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">If I can&#8217;t find the perfect words the poem for you won&#8217;t get done,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Love has grown within my heart for so long, how can it be told,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The story of loving you must be of treasures like silver and gold,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Angels from heaven with hair over shoulders of tender grace,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Draped in silken fabrics treasured by kings and trimmed in lace,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The pathway for such heavenly angels should they choose to walk,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Has aromatic roses along with blooming flowers trimming a boardwalk,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">My mind holds this place for you as you are the truest angel known,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Known, of course, as known within my heart where my love is shown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Am I surprised? Oh yes, I am so surprised my life has been so great,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Without you at my side I believe I would be known by name as &#8220;the late,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">As I whisper softly in the morning I will try to stay close within your ear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Holding you tightly in the morning helps my heart overcome hidden fear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Hear me, sweet angel, the words I whisper say my love will forever grow,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">How much more can this old heart of mine love? Only the heavens know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The power hidden there will propel me through the rigors I must endure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">With you at my side just the tenderness of your hand makes me sure,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Forever let the bridge of love be journeyed by two elders, me and you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">She leads the stooped man with too many burdens for a man to accrue,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">He should be in misery of frame and mind, yet his eyes shine so bright,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">No matter the pain or burden of day he knows he will hold her that night,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The most beautiful sound he knows is the beating of her angel heart,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The truth of her heart is known with words she spoke, &#8220;I shall never part,&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Each day they take a journey that only hearts of love can know,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Every night a kiss invigorates their bodies for their youth to show,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In a valley of dreams and kisses they make love as they&#8217;ve done before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Journeys of heart can take place in just a trip to the corner store,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though surrounded by the world, they go where only they have gone before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">They hold each other tight then with a whisper and a kiss it happens once more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The birds sing songs of love and live in the pine trees that grow nearby,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Flowers of species unknown bring sweet aroma and nearly touch the sky,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Green grasses please the eyes as do the sounds of the creek please the ear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">But what pleases me most is to be sitting next to my white-haired dear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Assist me, my angel, that I may lay in your arms so tender once more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Though time may be short at ninety, just a little more is what I pray for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<a name=\"9\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: Sacramento; font-size: 24pt;\">Crown of a King and Queen<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A walking fool once lived so void of the depths of love,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">A crown of indignation upon his head he was absent of,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Someone to awaken his one-track mind to his real desire,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">He had to realize he also filled her tender heart with fire,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So hard to remove because he&#8217;d worn it far too long,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Younger and more insightful she knew where they belong,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Her name had been carved in his heart for her before,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">In his bedroom his thoughts of her came more and more,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Please, he&#8217;d pray to those above he hoped would hear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Faith was still questioned until he knew trembling fear,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">An eventful day of kisses can bring a man&#8217;s heart down,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The strength of a warrior so reduced he lost the crown,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">One eventful day of which she had dreamed for so long,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Enlightenment of what true love means is more than a song,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">She snuffed it out with one kiss the disdain he carried inside,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">Now filled with her love and his own pounding heart he cried,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">So alone and far away the love from her carried him through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The pain of death so close yet the undying love inside for you,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">You still wanted me after so much time and all I&#8217;d been through,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">The crown of a king and queen are now worn by me and you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">End<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Alice; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0 \u00a0 Love \u00a0 Volume Two CONTENTS Chains Bind My Heart (Valentine&#8217;s Day 2015) Each Moment of Magic 44th Anniversary Poem When Angels Pray and Love Heart of the Angel A Burden Upon My Angel Honored Husband Words Fly Crown of a King and Queen \u00a0 &nbsp; 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