Paul Apal'kin

Paul Apal’kin 

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

“Paradise lies at the feet of your mother.”

 

Last night I went out once again
To ply my ancient trade.
I’ve seldom heard a word of praise
For all the love I’ve made.

.. few have ever dared to care
How love can go astray.
Most accept their lover’s fate
When love just fades away.

I have to hit two hearts at once.
It’s timing, don’t you see.
And sometimes lovers close their heart.
To all, especially me.

I’m sorry for mistakes I’ve made.
I’d surely take them back.
If only I could give you all
The love in life you lack.

But if you’ll give me one more chance.
I’ll follow every lead.
And promise to keep at my work
To find the love you need.

And when I do, I’ll string my bow,
And line my arrow true.
And then the world will see once more
What Cupid still can do. – Cupid, Greenwolfe

 

“..and the sunlight clasps the earth, 
and the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?” 

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, Love’s Philosophy

What we’re reading today…

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” 

 

“There is hardly any activity, any enterprise,
which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations,
and yet which fails so regularly, as love.”
– Erich Fromm

I need you to trust me trust me… Carlos M. Almagro

trust me ~ Carlos M. Almagro  

“I need you…
to trust me”

 

(My Dad used to dance with me, just like this. I’d panic – yes, I was already a control freak at  that age – and he’d say “relax, trust me.” O Dad, I miss you so very much.)