The past is miles away off shore and I have a feeling I´ve got a hole on my canoe

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Made in heaven

It was meant to be

I would go through hell

To get to you

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FLYING OVER TROUBLED WATER

Image: Flying Over Troubled Water by Kitty

I have two angels: The angel that shows me the way to reasoning who enlightens me on crossing over the bridges when the water is overfloading and the other angel who takes my hand over troubled waters, takes me to the road leading to heaven once he has promised a view to God.

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You promised me a way to heaven;

I showed you a view to God.

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It doesn´t matter if you lose or win, but how you play the game.

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WITH AND WITHOUT YOU

With YOU

I have
Color
Shape
Scent
Taste
Place
Rest
Action
Power
Strength
Meaning
Motion
Life
With you I am TIMELESS and AGELESS

WITH OUT YOU

I am colorless
I am shapeless
I am odorless
I am tasteless
I am homeless

I am reckless
I am stillness
I am powerless
I am weakness
I am emotionless
I am meaningless
I am motionless
Without you I am lifeless

With YOU I am MORE
Without YOU
I am not ME

Without YOU
I am LESS

Without you

I can not BE
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WILL I AM!

IMPOSSIBLE

I´M POSSIBLE

A LITTLE PRAY TO MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD

When you feel hard
To pretend feeling happy
When you feel your world is upside down despite anything you do or see
When you feel your pain will never mend from the truth and consequences
Of wounds will never heal making your life misery
When you know time won´t ease and heal that pain and bring the sun back into your life
Stop and face it – No need to hide your feelings
There´s always a possibility of being happy again without hurting somebody else´s feelings
There´s a world eager to know you
To touch you and feel you deeply
And when you feel
There´s still fire in your heart and you are quite sure it´s strong, right and good reach out for it
Don´t disobey the rule of love
Keep it burning throughout your cold and dark moments
And say a pray
A little pray to make you feel good

And you will turn the world a better place to be

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BROKEN HEART

I´ve been waiting for such a long time

Something to ring true

Turn me on and make me smile again

Now I realized that those were only

empty words blown in the wind

Today

I lost my way

I don´t know where to go

I don´t know where to go

Before

Your love made me feel strong and right

Like the waves in the ocean

Leaves in the trees

Clouds in the sky

But all of a sudden

Like a thunder in the sky

My whole world caved in before my eyes

Suddenly I realized

That could it be my destiny

To live my life alone

The long and dark night turned me cold and sleepless

And once more I´ve got the feeling

I am even much more alone than I could ever be

Being left on my own holding an empty heart

( Who wants a broken heart?)

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High flows the sorrow

No hope for tomorrow

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FREE WINGED

I WAS BORN TO RUN FREE

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I wish I would

IF

only I could

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THE TIME HAS COME ( I´LL HAVE TO LET YOU GO)

Frozen feelings

Drastic change of heart

I have to let you go
Pain is tearing me inside

And there it was always
warning me that something was very wrong

Although I have being deluding myself and the feelings I had for you

Now it’s time to let it go

A time to let go hard feelings and despair

Time to say goodbye

Time to keep the sweet memories

I have to let you go

I have been miserable

Happy sometimes

Full of hope most of the time

It took me quite a while to get out of the agony of seeing and feeling my love

slipping through my fingers like hot and dried sand right before my eyes
and there was nothing I could have done to keep you in my life

Now it´s time to let it go

I surrendered

I stopped fighting

I stopped talking about you

Little by little trying to get used to the idea
you were not there anymore

In my days
My afternoons
My evenings
Throughout my endless nights

Now it´s time to let it go

Life goes on
It never changes its course
It does not worry to make people happy or miserable
Because that’s the ultimate on keeping own sanity and staying alive

It just follows the flow

Like a tiny and refreshing stream of crystal of pure water being enveloped by the huge ocean...the mother of all

Now it´s time to let you go
To open my heart
and set us both free
The time has come
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BLESSINGS GRANTED ( God´s gift)

The most wonderful event took place days after my prayer to God
from the very depth of my soul
O mais maravilhoso aconteceu logo após minha prece a Deus do fundo de minha alma

It was just a few sights away from the day I met HER
Que sucedeu a apenas a alguns suspiros anteriores ao dia que a encontrei

I truly see and believe God has blessed me with this very woman
Eu, verdadeiramente sei e acredito que Deus abençoou-me com esta mulher única

My fears have risen up to discourage me from receiving this blessing
I will surely overcome them
Meus medos vieram à tona para desencorajar-me a receber esta bênção

Just as scripture says: " Perfect love will cast away fear"
Bem como as escrituras dizem: " O amor perfeito dispersa medos"

I want to be the same blessing to HER that she is to ME
Pois quero ser a mesma benção a ela como ela é para mim

Only time will tell and like Peter, I must focus on

God´s power and grace that´s in me "WHAT LORD HAS JOINED TOGETHER, LET NO MAN SEPARATE, "including me"

Somente o tempo assim o dirá e como Pedro, tenho que focar-me

No poder e graça de Deus que está em mim

" O QUE DEUS JUNTOU NENHUM HOMEM SEPARARÁ, "inclusive eu".

Amen

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A WOMAN OF PARADISE

( From a man in love to his Creator)

She needs to be gentle and kind
Ela deverá ser gentil e delicada

Her beauty inwardly should make me shake
Que sua beleza interna faça-me estremecer

Her desire for me will make me seem special
Seu desejo por mim fará sentir-me especial

She needs to have a natural sense to nurture
Ela precisará ter um jeito natural para com as crianças

I hope to partake in her passions and for her to partake in mine
Que eu faça parte de suas paixões e ela das minhas

She will be a woman who listens to God
Ela será uma mulher que escuta a Deus

She would never tear me down but always build me up
Ela jamais me diminuirá, mas me enaltecerá sempre

I will desire no woman all days of my life
Não desejarei outra mulher todos os dias da minha vida

She will love children even if we can´t have any of our own
Ela amará crianças mesmo se não pudermos ter nossas próprias

She will appreciate quality in all things but
Ela apreciará qualidade em todas as coisas, mas

Will be content with what we have
Ficará contente com o que tivermos

She will desire no man but me all the days of her life
Ela não desejará outro homem por todos os dias de sua vida

She will accept and rejoice in my humanness and I in hers
Ela aceitará e se exultará em mim e eu nela

We will both be grateful for each other and the Creator who put us together
Seremos ambos gratos um ao outro e ao Criador que nos colocou juntos
Amen

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UNSPOKEN

I just don´t take things as given

I try to make them into something

That reflects my personal consciousness

My spirit reflecting my inner feelings

Upon the image of the unspoken words

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JUST LIKE THE WIND

One who seems like the wind and

Moves like it

In some vague spasms of hope for romance

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...The winter is gone

To distant shores

Where the sun is still the king...

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...All the tenderness

Of a sweet but frosty morning

Scratching its nails on my window...

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FLY AWAY

Fly away

Like birds on the trees

Spread your wings

Fly away

Closer to me

Don´t you ever leave

I beg you on my knees

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A WOMAN OF HER OWN

Too beautiful
Too ambitious
Too daring
To live anything but
Her wildest dreams
No past
No memories
She is alone
Hears no one
She is alone
She feels no more
She rests her being
Calmed by the splash of the waves
Against the rocks
She fears no more
She isn´t alone anymore
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MISSING YOU

I miss you
when I go to bed
and I close my eyes
I miss you
when I wake up
and I open my eyes
I miss you
when I say Hello
and
when I say Goodbye
I miss you when
you are in me
and when
you leave me
I miss you
the day before yesterday
Yesterday
Today
Everyday
I miss you
ALWAYS
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WITHIN ME ( WITHOUT YOU )

Within you I lose myself

Without you I find myself

Waiting to be lost again

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EMOTION

You are the feeling; I am the motion

We two together can cause commotion

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A SPELL OF REINCARNATION

I feel reborn
Single winged but free
You touched me like a fireball
guided by golden flaming thunders of the heart
Yours words are to me like warm water
They can melt the ice that has taken
possession of my body
Though my feet are still for ever cold and the air
that before seemed frosty is now
as sweet as honey
I´ve found my way home at last
I am happy you are back in my life again
for the best
And for good I can run wild
´Cause I was born to be free
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LIFE ( IN ME )

A cosmic consent ruled by the Almighty Creator
My Being
One true thing
My only true thing to BE
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AT LAST

In my nest

You are in peace at least

And in one piece at last

Do not live it too fast

Make the best of it

Until it lasts

( in Me and You)

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STILL

I am in peace in your nest

And in one piece at last

Though I´ve lived it all too fast

With you

I´ve made out the best of all

Until it lasted

( In YOU and ME)

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FREE WILL ( WILL FREE ME)

I don´t want to be trapped in a golden cage
I would rather break my wings flying away
Set me free
Let it be my free will
I was born to be FREE
Freedom will free me
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ELEGY TO HAPPINESS

Colliding constellations exploding
in a shower of comets across heaven
Being watched by the angels
who promised the two of us
a view to GOD...
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WINGED REASON ( Razão Alada)

You are the reason I could fly
And because of you I don´t need to wonder why
You are the reason I feel so alive
Your smile turns my world around
Though keeping my feet on the ground
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UNCHAIN MY HEART ( Set Me Free)

Unchain my heart
Set me free
(while the wind blows under my wings)
Watch me fly
(while the wind carries me away)
high up into the sky (don´t ask why)
Just let me glide
As far as the wind may blow me away
and for that
day after day I pray
cause I don´t wanna here stay
standing by night and day
while you are still so far away
(don´t let the wind carry me away)
I really wanna stay
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HAPPY MOMENT

For a short moment
I was happy those days
and I would pretend
to be always
It is difficult to live alone
In a place where all is wrong
I have to find someone
To make my heart to beat strong again
Someone loyal and friendly
It is all I want
To stay with me in good and bad moments
...from the beginning till the very end
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BROKEN MIRROR

I sometimes feel so vulnerable
I can barely carry my bones
I sometimes feel so numb
I can´t even hold my own being
I sometimes feel so blind
I can hardly recognize the shadow
of the person I used to be

I sometimes feel so vulnerable
I can´t even put together
the shattered image
reflected upon my inner broken mirror
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FOUR SEASONS

I met you in Spring
I was with you in Summer
my heart beating like a drummer
I waited for you in Autumn
I loved you in Winter
making us feeling even much younger
I want you back in Spring
Hold you throughout Summer
making my heart a new song sing
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I WISH

For those

Who didn´t try to understand

For those

Who didn´t

For those

Who could have

For those

who might do

For those

Who will

and

For the one

Who did

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LONELINESS

I am feeling lonely
as naked as a leafless tree on a winter´s day
But it doesn´t scare me off ´cause when I look downwards
I can see an artful kaleidoscope playing fully in a myriad
of colors
I lie down on them going back to my roots again on
sparkling lights waving throughout darkness being carried away
by a warm and healing Sirocco flow, snuggling up to my skin
like warm waves of tenderness
Loneliness sets in on me
I am no longer alone
You are part of me
I will never part from you
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SUN-KISSED

Here comes the sun

Disgusing its color and warmth

( hitting me in the eye)

Wrapped up in the arms of dawn

Just taking me for a ride

Allowing me to fly

Right up in the sky

Still it does not blind my sight

To the shine of the bright silver moonlight

( melting away the empty cold night)

It makes me jump and beam

Like a child

It makes mefeel

( because of you)

I AM STILL ALIVE

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FOR EVER LOVING YOU

Photo: Love- by Karura-Chan

I feel like

keeping the music silent

The dreams in a box

I feel like

Seeming like the wind and moving like it

throughout the meadows grass

I feel like

Laying across the park

Like auburn leaves in a deep autumn morning

coming free from the dust of a thousand country roads

I feel like

Steaming like a train leaving from a winter station

Resting on your lips like a flaming cigarette

disguising my loneliness

in a deep puff of smoke lingering up your nostrils and

fading away on your wet eyes

I feel like

Floating naked where blue whales

swim

I feel like

A ridge curling over the waves

Breaking on the shore as an ultimate

In some vague spasms of hope for romance

FOR EVER LOVING YOU

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance

Carl Sandburg