Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost

Friendship is a quiet walk in the park with the one you trust

Love is when you feel like you are the only two around.

Friendship is when they gaze into your eyes and you know they care.

Love is when they gaze into your eyes and it warms your heart.

Friendship is being close even when you are far apart.

Love is when you can still feel their hand on your heart when they are not near.

Friendship is hoping that they experience the very best.

Love is when you bring them the very best.

Friendship occupies your mind.

Love occupies your soul.

Friendship is knowing that you will always try to be there when in need.

Love is when you will give up everything to be at their side.

Friendship is a warm smile in the winter.

Love is a warming touch that sends a pulse through your heart.

Love is a beautiful smile to which nothing compares:

A tender laugh, which opens your heart,

A single touch that melts away your fears,

A smell that reminds you of the tenderness of heaven,

A voice that reminds you of the innocence of youth.

Friendship can survive without love.

Love cannot live without friendship.

~ Author Unknown .

In Memory Of ~

By the bohemian, on May 29th, 2012

It is a cloudy, rainy day in Southern California and though it never rains in California, today it is coming down as though it may never stop.

As the rain gently falls I find myself listening to the raindrops and remembering the sound of the rain tapping out melodies on an old tin roof. It takes me back in time to a place when I was young and my whole life was before me. I can remember thinking that a lifetime was an eternity and that I had forever to fullfill my dreams.

It is different now… now I know that our time here is limited and fleeting, now I know that it is a transient gift and can be gone in the blink of an eye.

With age does come the wisdom we think we possess as youths but soon learn that like the passing of time, it is a paradox that we glimpse in moments and feel in eternities.

On this Memorial Day weekend I am experiencing a bit of nostalgic melancholy as I reflect on the people who have touched my soul and heart. I am remembering the simple things that made these people special and personified who they were to me. I am looking back with longing but also thankfulness for having the opportunity to be a part of their world.

These are the people who enter our lives in the most unexpected ways and become permanent dwellers in our heart and soul. Their auras draw us into their lives and make us feel as though when we are with them our lives sparkle and gleam and are magical. These are the ones who bring us out of ourselves and help us to grow and experience life as a gift. They help us to feel a bit of the pizazz that they possess and they help us to engulf ourselves and others in their romantic version of the world. They look out at the world and see it as full of wonder and potential. They see life as a wonderous adventure. They are grateful and know that they are blessed.

By having these wonderful, precious people enter my world and my life, I am stronger and more appreciative of my own time and blessings. I am ever grateful for their sparkle. Their sparkle that I will always remember with a smile and a tear.

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

A free bird leaps on the back
Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange suns rays
And dares to claim the sky.

But a BIRD that stalks down his narrow cage
Can seldom see through his bars of rage
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill
Of things unknown but longed for still
And his tune is heard on the distant hill for
The caged bird sings of freedom.

The free bird thinks of another breeze
And the trade winds soft through
The sighing trees
And the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright
Lawn and he names the sky his own.

But a caged BIRD stands on the grave of dreams
His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
His wings are clipped and his feet are tied
So he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings with
A fearful trill of things unknown
But longed for still and his
Tune is heard on the distant hill
For the caged bird sings of freedom.

~ Maya Angelou