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This
first one is a song that is from the movie '10 Things I Hate About You.'
It is called 'I Won't be Your Winter' by Sister Hazel
This next one I thought of when I was driving through Saskatoon one day last winter. I spend a lot of time driving and it always gives me plenty of time to think, sometimes too much time. I just started thinking of all the people who I know in my life that have had an impact on my life and I started to wonder what kind of an impact I might possibly have had on their lives. I sent it to a friend of mine and she liked it so much she wrote her own version of it. I guess imitation is the highest form of flattery.Grey ceiling on the earth,
Well it has lasted for a while.
Take my thoughts for what they're worth,
I've been acting like a child.
Your opinion and what is that,
Is just a different point of view.
Oh, yeah.What else, what else can I do?
Said I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
I said I'm sorry, but what for,
If I hurt you then I hate myself,
I don't want to hate myself, don't want to hurt you.
Why do you choose your pain, if you only knew
How much I love you, love you.
Well, I won't be your winter,
And I won't be anyone's excuse to cry.
And we can be forgiven, oh yeah.
I will be here, yeah.Old picture on the shelf,
It's been there for a while.
Frozen image of ourselves,
We were acting like a child.
Innocent and in a trance,
And dance the lights did for a while.
You read my eyes just like a diary,
Oh, remember please remember.Well, I'm not a beggar, but what's more,
Well if I hurt you then I hate myself,
I don't want to hate myself, don't want to hurt you.
Why do you choose that pain if you only knew,
How much I love you, nooo.
Well I won't be your winter,
And I won't be anyone's excuse to cry.
And we can be forgiven,
And I will be here.No, well I won't be your winter,
I won't, 'cause I won't be anyone's excuse to cry.
And we can be forgiven, I know.
I will be here.
I won't be your winter.
I won't, and I won't be anyone's excuse to cry.
We can be forgiven, oh I know,
And I will be here.
This next one I wrote last year. Two of the guys that I worked with were in an accident on the way home from work one day. They rolled their truck about 2 miles from town and were in pretty serious condition for a while. It made me stop and realize that I was thankful for a lot of things in my life that I take for granted.Have you ever stopped to wonder how you have touched my life?You don't know me but...
How someone you haven't met or don't really know can be so effected by you
Have you dismissed it as unimportant,
Me as unimportant just because you don't know me?
You are in my thoughts when you shouldn't be
And my dreams when I need someone to comfort me.
Something happens, and you leave me alone
You go away, and for a while you are gone
You are no longer in my head or in my heart
Yet with something as simple as a song,
A smell,
A thought,
You are back, just like that.
What can I do?
You, who I have never spent any real time with I can not get out of my head.
A few words,
A look,
A smile in my direction,
You have given me something to think about,
To keep me warm on those long lonely nights.
It may seem silly to you,
But I don't expect you to understand what is in my heart
You sit there, night after night and you have no idea
No idea that somewhere close to you,
There is someone who thinks about you more than she should
Someone who wants only the chance to know what you are really like,
When you are not pretending to be someone else
Will I ever get that chance.
Will you ever give me that chance?
Will I ever get to tell you how much you have done for me
By simply being in my thoughts,
My dreams,
My heart
By simply being in my life !
Just a thought
This next one is about another friend of mine that was in an accident. He wasn't supposed to live, but he proved everyone wrong. Kind of amazing how things work sometimes.Walking, talking, breathing?
Watching a sun set,
A shooting star,
Walking on the beach,
Dancing with friends.
These are just some of the things we take for granted.
Who is to say that what we can do today, we will be able to do tomorrow.
Will we wake up and jump out of bed.
Will we even be able to make it out of bed?
Drive to see friends,
Climb stairs,
Or a hill.
Do we make it safely through another day?
Or do we hope and pray that our loved ones make it through the nite.
Who is to say when we leave,
We will make it home?
Answer a simple question,
Stand on one leg,
Breath without help.
We take these for granted.
We need to live each day like it will be out last.
When will the day come?
That we can't take care of ourselves?
Today?
Tomorrow?
A year?
Yesterday?1/8/99
Ok, this next one is a little happier. It is about College life, the good and the bad. Anyone who is heading to college for the first time, I strongly suggest that you at least try to live in the dorm at some point. It is an experience all right.Amazing Have you ever wondered what it's like to sit and watch a miracle?
To have one walk into your room and sit down?
A miracle because a month ago, he almost died,
February 21, '97 made everyone stop and think!
Some said it was hard to feel sorry for him,
Sure it was stupid, but no one deserves that.
They said 5 weeks in the hospital and 6 months rehab,
He played the odds, and won.
He got lucky.
2 weeks in the hospital and back at school.
Now, he sits in class again.
You can see the scar on the back of his head, if you know where to look.
The only visible mark of what almost took him away from us.
How different things were without him.
And how right it seems, now that he is back!
3/21/97
College Life What do we learn in College?
Lots of useless information in classes we likely won't ever use,
We learn to party, but sometimes it goes too far.
We learn that not everyone knows the meaning of the word 'No'
Our friends are the ones, who stay up with us when we are sick,
They take the fall with us when we are all guilty.
They are there when we need someone to talk to,
They listen and they don't judge us for the stupid things we do.
We rediscover the joys of naptime,
We learn to trust people we hardly even know.
We live with people who are strangers, and we grow into friends.
Sometimes, we learn why friends shouldn't live together.
We realize that old friends are still the best.
We learn to sleep through any possible noise.
We try to learn to survive when things are bad.
We try to make something out of ourselves, without losing who we are.
We find that what was important to us is no longer the same.
We look at life differently than we ever did before.
We learn to follow our hearts, not just our friends.
What we really learn in college will stay with us forever.
1/26/97