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Lisle K Brook Jan 2016
Happiness is a choice they say;
I think I'll make that choice today!

I must include you in my choice you see,
Because happiness can only be if you are with me!

As the trees are green, and the sky is blue,
I choose happiness today because of you!
In 64 years of life, I found it is difficult to be happy without a friend, a spouse, someone to be happy with! This poem is for my wife of 41 years.
Lisle K Brook Jan 2016
Tears of sorrow for our world;
The Bible says "God is Love" but hate is everywhere!
If only we could embrace the true meaning of love.
Does God want us to live together in peace,
Or hate each other and be miserable?
Have we abandoned God, or has He abandoned us?
Seems to me the answer is obvious.
I guess most of the world doesn't get it.
From 1 John: Whether you are an atheist, agnostic, Christian, or some other religion, this Bible verse is worth some serious thought. Do you "get it?"
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Lisle K Brook Nov 2015
While the trees sleep,
I lie awake. Eyes wide open.
My body is whole,
My soul is broken.

My precious son
that I prayed be born,
Is now gone;
I feel cheated…forlorn.

Good memories race through my mind;
His smile, his embrace;
He was so kind!
God took him away,
Was it really time?

He’s happy in heaven,
but I’m not fine.
Here on earth my heart still breaks
for my only son and his loving embrace.

God give me strength to live through this,
And for others who’ve lost children,
Please give them bliss.
No parent should have to endure this.

— The End —