The path we choose to take influences each step we take down the road of our lives. Choose carefully and unselfishly because your life touches so many others, Especially those you love.

As a teenager I had a special place I would go to dream of life and the way things would be when I grew older. Now I return there to remember the times I had and wishing I hadn't grown old.

My mother told me that God would always be my closest friend in life. In February 1998 she passed away. Remembering those words, I wrote this poem several months later. Mom has gone to be with her friend.

The bond between friends can be as, or stronger than with family member. So it was with Sunshine who was my best friend.

I married at a young age; and like many young married couples, our marriage ended in divorce. For a long time I spurned anything even resembling a relationship. Even though I craved love and wanted so to be loved, I feared that I would be hurt as before. Someone did come into my life, and I tried to sabotage it. Her Love was stronger than my fear of being hurt and eventually we married. We have been married now for 18 years, and I love her more each day.

So fearful of being hurt many times we sabotage relationships even though love is what we most want.

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder. For me it certainly does. When apart and lonely I just remember my life with you.