Yess!!! The arrival of EMILY-SMILEYGIRL! SHe has returned!
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Because of You
Verse 1: Life never had a meaning before you came into my life.
You made the darkness into light.
You set me free
You made me see.
Chorus: Because of you, I am free from pain
Because of you, I am free from shame.
Because of you, Life now has a purpose and a meaning.

Crucified today
my arms nailed back
stretched out to embrace
held back by your nails

My heart that beat to love
now bleeds my blood
nailed fast my feet
that tried to walk
the path of love and peace

The pain is an unending ocean
stretching before my weary,
dropping shoulders
pulling me away
while I'm nailed here to stay

Your slap in my face
still stings

Note: I wrote this poem for my very dear friend Kyleigh when she moved overseas. If any of you are wondering, yes, it is the same Kyleigh who posts all that amazing stuff here.
This one's for you, Ky!

We'll always be together
Although we're seas apart
For whatever the distance between us
You'll always be in my heart

And when you look at stars
Twinkling in endless sky

A glimpse of my old friend
Brings a flood of memories;
Of laughter and sorrow,
Of hymns and symphonies.

Mem’ries of the whole new world
She opened up to me.
Full of magic and music,
A world that is carefree.

I remember the songs
With which she eased my pain.
Her quiet, steady voice
Was like Spring’s healing rain.

A true and loyal friend,
She held my secrets dear

I don’t know why I did it.
I wish I hadn’t.
She used to trust me, and I broke that trust.

“If they catch us, they’ll think you’re the spy,” She’d said. “I couldn’t let that happen.”
I looked away from her, ashamed at what I knew.

Frodo, as dear to me as my Gaffer, grew up in the Shire, a peaceful quiet farmland. I knew him since the time that I was young; and he came to Hobbiton from Buckleberry when his mother and father died. Full of adventure and youth he was when in his younger happier years.

My two fictional heroes.

Captain Horatio Hornblower and Captain Jack Aubrey finally meet.

Chapter One
Admiralty Orders

Friends shape you, mold you, and influence you.

Friends love you and comfort you,
Laugh with you and cry with you,
Play with you and work with you.

Friends will be with you in sickness, and in health,
In joy and in sorrow,
In poverty and in riches.

Friends are good listeners, and always have a shoulder for you to lean on.

Friends encourage you to do what is right,

The night is young, and so are we, and all of us are here
We’ll take a walk down a lonely street with those whom we hold dear
The stars are faint, the streetlight glow will find us walking side by side
We’ll lose ourselves inside this moment and let our worries die

The future stretches on, and who can say what paths we’ll take?

They say you only live once
So live
Like you’ll never get another chance
Give
Your world true love and romance
And live
To the fullest

They only live once, too
So reach
And touch them when they’re down
Speak
The words to erase the frown
And live
To the fullest

They say a friend is for the tough times
So sigh
And face the world together
Cry
And be comforted forever