Poems submitted by Ross Calasin
A-Z Friendship
Accepts you as you are
Believes in you
Calls you just to say "Hi"
Doesn't give up on you
Envisions the whole of you
Forgives your mistakes
Gives unconditionally
Helps you
Invites you over
Just be with you
Keeps you close at heart
Loves you for who you are
Makes a difference in your life
Never judges
Offers support
Picks you up
Quiets your fears
Raises your spirits
Says nice things about you
Tells you the truth when you need to hear it
Understands you
Values you
Walks beside you
X-plains things you don't understand
Yells when you won't listen and…
Zaps you back to reality
My Declaration of Self-Esteen
I AM ME
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me.
Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone
chose it.
I own everything about me:
My body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions.
Whether they be to others or to myself.
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears.
I own all my triumphs and successes,
All my failures and mistakes because I own all of me.
I can become intimately acquainted with me.
By so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts.
I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me
And other aspects that I do not know
But as long as I am friendly and loving to myself,
I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles
And for ways to find out more about me
However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think
and feel
At a given moment in time is authentically me.
If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turn
out to be unfitting,
I can discard that which is unfitting,
Keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded.
I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.
I have the tools to survive,
To be close to others,
To be productive,
And to make sense and order out of the world
Of people and things outside of me.
I owe me, and therefore I can engineer me
I am me and
I AM OKAY!!!
Like pebbles side by side
Upon the sand,
Together we've endured
The push and pull
Of time's relentless waves.
Still hand in hand, we stand,
Where all is movable, unmoved.
Unending love has made us one
Against the toss and tow
Of wind and sea.
Now smoothed and polished
By the rain and sun,
Our separate lives
Are shaped in unity…
You are still you in ways
That have not changed
Since we were brought together
Long ago.
I am still I.
And time that rearranged our features
Cannot dim the heart's deep glow:
We shine together
In this time and place,
Each one the light
Upon the other's face.
HEARTPRINTS
WHATEVER OUR HANDS TOUCH-
WE LEAVE FINGERPRINTS!!!
ON WALLS, ON FURNITURES,
ON DOORKNOBS, DISHES, BOOKS,
AS WE TOUCH WE LEAVE OUR IDENTITY.
OH PLEASE WHERE EVER I GO TODAY,
HELP ME LEAVE HEARTPRINTS!!!
HEARTPRINTS OF COMPASSION
OF UNDERSTANDING AND LOVE.
HEARTPRINTS OF KINDNESS
AND GENUINE CONCERN.
MAY MY HEART TOUCH A LONELY NEIGHBOR
OR A RUNAWAY DAUGHTER,
OR AN ANXIOUS MOTHER,
OR, PERHAPS, A DEAR FRIEND!!!
I SHALL GO OUT TODAY
TO LEAVE HEARTPRINTS,
AND IF SOMEONE SHOULD SAY
"I FELT YOUR TOUCH,"
MAY THAT ONE SENSE BE…YOUR LOVE
TOUCHING THROUGH ME.
I LOVE EVERY DAY WITH YOU
LIFE IS FULL OF LOTS OF LITTLE HASSLES,
BUT WE STILL HAVE OUR MOMENTS,
YOU AND I.
WHEN NOTHING REALLY MATTERS BUT EACH OTHER,
AND WE JUST LET THE CRAZINESS PASS BY.
MOMENTS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR FEELINGS
AND MAYBE STEAL A KISS,
OR TWO,
OR THREE.
MOMENTS WHEN SOME SMALL THING STRIKES US FUNNY,
AND WE JUST BUST OUT LAUGHING HELPLESSLY.
MOMENTS WHEN OUR DREAMS SEEM SWEET AND PRECIOUS
AND REALLY NOT SO VERY FAR AWAY…
YES, LIFE IS FULL OF LOTS OF LITTLE HASSLES,
BUT WE STILL HAVE OUR MOMENTS…
EVERY DAY.
THANK YOU FOR LOVING, LAUGHING, AND SHARING WITH ME DAY AFTER DAY!!!
I PROMISE I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT ME,
I FEEL LOVE LIKE I'VE NEVER
FELT BEFORE.
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
BECAUSE WHEN YOU
TALK TO ME,
YOU MAKE ME FEEL SPECIAL.
YOUR VOICE IS ALWAYS SINCERE,
ALWAYS CARING.
AND WE TALK ABOUT THINGS
THAT REALLY MATTER.
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
BECAUSE WE SHARE THE SAME INTERESTS,
VALUES, AND DREAMS.
THOUGH WE HAVE LIVES
APART FROM EACH OTHER,
WE BOTH HAVE THE SAME EXPECTATIONS
OF OUR RELATIONSHIP,
BOTH AGREE ON THINGS
IN LIFE THAT MATTER MOST.
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU
BECAUSE WHEN YOU HOLD ME,
YOU TELL ME, WITHOUT SAYING A WORD,
THERE'S NO PLACE IN THE WORLD
YOU'D RATHER BE, NO ONE IN THE WORLD
YOU'D RATHER SHARE YOUR LIFE WITH.
AND THERE'S NO PLACE
I FEEL MORE SECURE, MORE LOVED
THAN IN YOUR ARMS.
I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU.
I WILL ALWAYS CARE ABOUT YOU
MORE THAN ANYONE IN THE WORLD.
AND THAT'S A PROMISE.
"Love is many things…
a smile
across a crowded room,
a touch, a tender kiss.
Love is knowing
What to say
And when to say it.
It's a voice of reassurance
Or a word of praise.
Love is very special,
Very dear…
And as it grows,
You find that nothing else
Can bring such happiness
To everything."
I LOVE YOU…
For sensing when I'd like to talk
And taking a moment to share.
For seeing when I need
Your help or support
And then making sure that you're there.
I love you…
For always believing in me
And letting me know that you do.
For giving so much
And for caring so much…
I love you…for just being you.
Email: jayjoplin@hotmail.com
