Water

If I genuinely want your happiness then I can't stand in its way.

I want to be happy. I want you to be happy too.

I want to be proud of myself. I want you to be proud of yourself too.

I love you. I want you to love yourself too.

Even if it means a reluctant goodbye

to plans I had for us and the things that include a "me & you."

It's OK. Life is transitory that way, and love,

true Love isn't set in any particular way.

Love folds and bends like the waters of a river around and over

the pebbles in its way.

I'll be here always.

In love. 

In all ways.

The Paradoxical Commandments

by Dr. Kent M. Keith


People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.


If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.



If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.


The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.


Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.


The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.


People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.


What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.


People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.


Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.



© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001

WORTH SHARING AND LIVING BY.

Love Always,

Christina

Te Extraño

I miss lying on your belly,
my head rising and falling with your breathing,
ears flooded with the sound of your heart beating.
Mind at peace, far off, dreaming

Safe and sound in concerted breathing.

Today, the lonely beat of my heart
labored and heavy
is sometimes...
too, too, too, too, heavy.

Even though I thought
somehow I was prepared
for this dark day.
Somehow.... ready.

Today like the first day,
again,
I feel it.
My heart’s just not in this life
without your breathing.