![]() Introduction: “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” ― Henry David Thoreau Aretha Franklin died today, 08/16/2018, and with much sadness I remember how much she touched my life, heart, soul with her brilliant songs. RIP dear lady heaven has called. "A Change Is Gonna Come" There's an old friend that I once heard say Somethin' that touched my heart, and it began this way: I was born by the river, in a little tent; And just like the river, I've been runnin' every since... He said, "It's been a long time comin', but I know my change is gonna come..." Oh, yeah... He said, "It's been too hard livin', but I'm afraid to die; I might not be if I knew what was up there beyond the sky... It's been a long, a long time comin', but I know my change has got to come..." Oh, yeah... I went... I went to my brother And I asked him, "Brother, could you help me, please?" He said, "Good sister, I'd like to, but I'm not able..." And when I, when I looked around, I was right back down, down on my bended knees, Yes, I was! Oh! There've been times that I thought... I thought that I wouldn't last for long, But somehow, right now, I believe that I'm able, I'm able to carry on... I tell you that it's been a long... and, oh, it's been an uphill journey all the way, But I know, I know, I know, I know my change is gonna come... Sometimes, I've had to cry all night long - yes, I did; Sometimes, I had to give up right for what I knew was wrong... Yeah, it's been an uphill journey! It's sure been a long way comin'... yes, it has... It's been real hard every step of the way, But I believe, I believe, this evenin', my change has come... Yeah! I tell you that my change has come References: Lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/arethafranklin/achangeisgonnacome.html Love you Sugar... you are the heart of me. Nothing changes this fact. Diana Mary Sharpton ~ Poetry & Photography ©All Rights Reserve 2017 Contact: DianaMSharpton@Gmail.com
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Diana Mary Sharpton“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” Categories
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