I dream't about you last night
Where we'd go and what we'd do
I dream't about you last night
Wish I'd woken up with you
I dream't about us last night
Holding hands and walking 'long
I dream't about us last night
The world's perfect love song
I dreamed a nightmare, horrible and dark
I never found you, never heard our song
I dreamed a nightmare, frightening and deep
You never came, the world stood me up
Conspiring against me it took you
I've never seen or heard so beautiful
As you I saw and dream't
I dream't about you last night
Held perfect in my arms
I dream't about us last night
Your kisses magic charms
I dream so much I often find
That without you, I lose all peace of mind
Please, Hold me Tight and look into my Eyes
ask me that question, barring truth's demise
Now, forever, infinite it abides
My love for you coul'n't be as real
If only you were as real as my love
I'd with my kiss, your lips our true love seal
But not now, I haven't you as yet
I'll dream and dream and dream, of you
Always I will dream
I'll wait forever, your soft touch to redeem
Worth all life, the best a man can dream.
I dream't about you last night
You took my soul away
I dream't about us last night
I'd gladly give it any day.
Now I lay my head to sleep
Hoping one more time to meet
you in the deep.
If I never woke again with just you in my mind
I would live forever, your love all conquered time.
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Live It Up
This is untitled, from a lecture, by Dr. Steven Walker (with an excerpt from Tennyson's Ulysses), English Professor, Brigham Young University.
"The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs,
The deep moans round with many voices.
Come, my friends, 'tis not too late
To seek a newer world."
If Jess Walker were here with us, my father, arguably the finest father in the history of the western world, whom I used to wheedle into coming to class to tell us what life was about, he would say: "Go for it."
When Dad turned forty he said "Life begins at forty." When he turned fifty, he said life begins at fifty. He said it at sixty, and seventy, and eighty, and would have said it at ninety if he hadn't died a couple of years short of that.
He loved to quote the Savior saying "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." That's what Dad would say, did say so often I can hear it still echoing through these academic corridors:
"Though we are not now that strength
Which in time past moved earth and heaven,
That which we are, we are:
One equal temper of heroic fates,
Made weak by time and fate
But strong in will to strive, to seek,
To find, and not to yield."
Man, I wish I could find it within me to live to my fullest. I am trying day by day to drink from the fountain of life that is passion and vision. We have such a short time, let's not waste it on frivolous things, meaningless activities. Rather, indulge in loving relationships, let yourself love, and let yourself be loved, indulge most of all in the passions that you have discovered within your soul. Take every moment of living as a precious sip from that well of life which inevitably dries up when the time is past.
"The long day wanes, the slow moon climbs,
The deep moans round with many voices.
Come, my friends, 'tis not too late
To seek a newer world."
If Jess Walker were here with us, my father, arguably the finest father in the history of the western world, whom I used to wheedle into coming to class to tell us what life was about, he would say: "Go for it."
When Dad turned forty he said "Life begins at forty." When he turned fifty, he said life begins at fifty. He said it at sixty, and seventy, and eighty, and would have said it at ninety if he hadn't died a couple of years short of that.
He loved to quote the Savior saying "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." That's what Dad would say, did say so often I can hear it still echoing through these academic corridors:
"Live.
Live it up.
Live right here, right now.
There is only you.
You are a unique event.
There will never be another Steve Walker,
and if you don't live his life now,
it will never get lived.
No matter how infinite your celestial kingdoms,
no matter how eternal your eternal lives,
you will never have more life
than you have now.
It's now or never.
Live it up, folks.
Live it up."
"Though we are not now that strength
Which in time past moved earth and heaven,
That which we are, we are:
One equal temper of heroic fates,
Made weak by time and fate
But strong in will to strive, to seek,
To find, and not to yield."
Man, I wish I could find it within me to live to my fullest. I am trying day by day to drink from the fountain of life that is passion and vision. We have such a short time, let's not waste it on frivolous things, meaningless activities. Rather, indulge in loving relationships, let yourself love, and let yourself be loved, indulge most of all in the passions that you have discovered within your soul. Take every moment of living as a precious sip from that well of life which inevitably dries up when the time is past.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Somein', Somein'
I am going to start changing things around a bit. I have been reading some other people's blogs and more often than not, I am inspired, motivated, lifted, and most especially, in awe. To read other's thoughts and views on life puts me in a different driver's seat, viewing my life through other's lenses gives me a sense of how life can be lived.
I can't remember who said it, but I have tried to make it a priority maxim in my daily interactions, paraphrasing it, it ends up somewhere along the lines of, "Every man or woman I meet is my better in some way. In that, every new person I meet brings a new lesson to my life." It is amazing what we can learn from other people if we open our eyes, ears, and hearts to the beauty of every human soul we come in contact with.
For a closer, I saw a James Dean poster that read, "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." If you look at your life, wishing you could change certain things about yourself, overcome fear and timidity, and have your dreams become reality, think about what James said. Think about it when you go to your next interview, when you talk to the next guy or girl you see for the first time as your heart races and your knees buckle, when you are told that you don't have the talent, skills, or abilities to accomplish your goals, and most importantly, when you fail, fail, fail, and fail again, Think about it.
I can't remember who said it, but I have tried to make it a priority maxim in my daily interactions, paraphrasing it, it ends up somewhere along the lines of, "Every man or woman I meet is my better in some way. In that, every new person I meet brings a new lesson to my life." It is amazing what we can learn from other people if we open our eyes, ears, and hearts to the beauty of every human soul we come in contact with.
For a closer, I saw a James Dean poster that read, "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." If you look at your life, wishing you could change certain things about yourself, overcome fear and timidity, and have your dreams become reality, think about what James said. Think about it when you go to your next interview, when you talk to the next guy or girl you see for the first time as your heart races and your knees buckle, when you are told that you don't have the talent, skills, or abilities to accomplish your goals, and most importantly, when you fail, fail, fail, and fail again, Think about it.
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