Let me put you in the setting that I am in before I start this blog.

I am sitting in my living room on a recliner with my laptop on my lap. The overhead fan is twirling, the fireplace is lit. Lights are turned down low. I have North Sound Piano Romance Naturally playing on WinAmp. A Cigarette lit in an ashtray to my left, a fresh cup of Pepsi to my right. The atmosphere is set to do my Blogging.

I was reading my poems that I wrote over the course of the past 20 years or so that I keep along with poems from other people that I found and liked. It is like looking at something that someone else wrote. Hard to believe that the events that inspired the poems were a part of my life. Things are so very different in my life. Long gone are the days of freedom to do what ever I felt like doing. I am no longer on my own time. Someone else's biological clock dictates what and when I do things. I only hope that one day when my life is mine again I have the courage to go back to living my own life.

Anyway, I was reading my poems and I realized.... Either I had some very intense, profound thoughts or was a really big mushy sap. I like to believe it was the first. Let me quote a few lines of a poem or two so you can decide for yourself....

Quoted from an untitled, undated poem....

My feelings for you are entangled around my heart with roots that feed it directly from my soul.

Quoted from another untitled, undated poem I wrote.....

And if I get a bit intense sometimes you are only seeing a minute part of what I feel inside.