Thorn Birds

Looking into those sad eyes of yours!
How I wish that I could make a difference.
If only I could take the pain away, my love. 

I feel your needs and desires.
I feel your torments and loneliness.
I feel your tears and yearnings, just like mine. 

We are both dying inside from our same yearnings.
We are both such in love and in need of each other.
We are both deprived of a chance to happiness. 

Hopes of barriers between us vanishing!
Hopes of a brighter future flourishing!
Hopes of our love bonding and uniting! 

Needing you so badly, just as you need me!
Yearning for your touch, just as you yearn for mine! 

How I love you! How I yearn for you!
How I need you just as you need me!
How I want you so much just as you do! 

Deep within, tears of sadness bleeding!
Refusing to let go of our love!
Love with a depth not to be forgotten! 

For, we are two thorn birds, in one soul!
For, we are two ships, without a sail!
For, we are two kindred spirits, in distress! 

With a love of the depth of an ocean!
With a love of the strength of Gibraltar!
With a love of the eternity of God’s love! 

I will love you until the end of time.
I will love you until my last breath.
I will love you until my eyes last close. 

Without you, I am lost!
And so, never forget me, my love! 

For, I will always love you, just as you love me.
Until the end of time!

Painful Loss and Broken Dreams

Our paths once crossed and molded us into one.
Our love was the beginning of a beautiful dream.

For the first time in my life,
I felt that I had been blessed with love. 

Feelings of Liveliness!
Feelings of beauty!
Feelings of belonging! 

Feelings of love!
Feelings of passion!
Feelings of tenderness! 

Today, our lives parted, without even a goodbye.
Wondering why or where you went.
Without answers to be heard! 

Only left with tears to fall!
Only left with a heavy heart and without dreams of a future between us!
Only left wondering of what it could have been? 

Because my love for you is real and true,
I will let you go in silence!
And I will remember you through all of my life! 

I will always have the picture of your face in my mind.
I will always have the feelings of my love for you.
In the deepest part of me! 

In my mind, I now have to say goodbye to you, my love.
I wish you happiness.
I hope that you will find your dreams one day. 

Perhaps, if there is such a thing as another life!
Our paths will cross again!
Where we will find our everlasting love!
Without barriers between us! 

Realization that our love was forbidden from the start!
Realization that our love could not be permitted!
My memories of you will always be embedded into my heart. 

I will remember your smile and your laughter.
I will remember your gentleness and your love.
Most of all, I will always remember you!
I will always carry you within me from here to eternity!

@ Lorraine G. Lessard

Peace Within

Strolling down the river in my canoe!
Listening to each strokes caressing the surface!
With serenity in my heart and gratitude to be alive each day! 

Beauty of nature, God’s greatest creation!
Thoughts of my ancestors belonging into the wild!
Passion lingers deep within me! 

Wide open skies! Bald eagles soaring with divine elegance!
Searching for their next prey to assure survival in their domain! 

Majestic mountains surrounding me! Songs of the loons!
Whispering sweet music to my ears and healing my soul!
Winds massaging my troubles away! 

Such beauty given to me! Love of life and love of the wild!
In the echoes of the wind is a message reminding me!
Respect and protect what is left of earth, my child! 

It is a message surfacing from the spirit of my ancestors!
Warning me of the losses we are to face! If we do not change our ways!But I, alone, cannot stop the destruction to come in the near future! 

Now is the time to stop the oil spills!
Chemicals getting into our waters and soils!
Forests disappearing and animals being extinct from our negligence! 

We must be the voices for the people.
Who’s, only goals and interests, are to profit from our lands!
They only think of their pocket books!
They ignore the damages being done!
We must join together and protect our land! 

For each oil spill into our waters, death of our aquatic life!
For each chemical spill, more bacteria’s and diseases!
For each tree cut and not replaced, less oxygen!
For each farm gone, less food and nutrition!
For each animal extinct, less population and more starvation! 

We shall not sit back and just let it happen!
We must voice ourselves or all beauty of life will be extinct!
If we wait, it will be too late! We must do it now! 

Change the rules of nature and enforce the laws!
Give back from what was taken from Mother Earth!
Only by doing so, will you find peace within! 

We shall not waste any time! Time is running out my friends!
Assuring us of complete destruction!
And no other chances to another tomorrow!

@ Lorraine G. Lessard