Sunshine

Your entrance into my life

Brought the sunshine I'd missed

And helped change my life for the better.

Now I feel like a brand new woman--

The lady I'd always wanted to be.

You see so much in me I thought was lost.

How can I ever repay you?

Just know that, for all your life, I'll be at your side.

© 1984 TDD

The Tree

The Tree

Tall and menacing

Against the darkened sky--

A symbol of loneliness

And the tears we cry.

Giving an appearance of strength--

Withstanding any storm--

And seeming so all alone,

With no way of getting warm.

Yet in the spring it stands

As a symbol of life,

Greenness flashing in the sun,

Helping to relieve our strife.

It shows us the secret of life

Is knowing how to adapt

When, in the course of our lives,

We veer off the way we had mapped.

© 1981 TDD