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A Life Found Tonight, I sit alone again waiting to see if you show up reading thru old letters, poems and essays written to so many people Pain is a common thread in so many of the missives an old companion, who never fails to make days challenging and nights an exercise in misery so many broken bones, torn joints, broken cartilage But worse than the physical pain is the mental, knowing my body no longer obeys the mind's commands and knowing I've been alone for so long - Lonely in the midst of a crowd, is the worst feeling I've ever known The words we swore were "in sickness and in health" but that means colds or broken bones, something which can be fixed - not this slow thief, robbing my body of it's grace and not taking my mind leaving me here, to live with the knowledge that someday soon I will be trapped inside this hull The body I used to be proud of, "God's mansion" some folks say, In this case, a crumbling ruin And I keep reading the letters, and begin to notice a change a stranger came into my life bringing smiles to ward off the pain She says the shaking doesn't matter Nor the frozen mask I wear and she offers love unconditional but my heart, so abused, was afraid to believe A chance meeting, one brief afternoon A vision in a hat, sun forming a halo around her head, and a smile so honest and friendly with a hug, to calm my fears meetings follow meetings and the width of a continent proves to be no obstacle at all not for hearts, minds or lovers and time runs so funny flying when we are together crawling when we are apart a brief moment of sunshine followed by months of darkness and rain A year flies by so swiftly and the body continues to decay but with love given so freely the mental pain has gone away so many things to separate us yet we continue to be as one traveling across the nation for visits so brief, yet so long As time goes on our knowledge of each other grows deeper, richer and fuller and our hearts begin beating as one bringing sunshine where rain used to fall Now our days of pain and darkness are coming to an end for soon we will be together One heart, one soul, together, forever. bob armentrout copyright 2000 ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com