I inspired a Poem when I had a conversation with a Friend of mine, and I wantes to share it with everyone... [b]Hold On To Me...[/b] Tears caress your cheeks, A place that only a lover's hand or kiss should embrace. Your soul is empty, And your heart lies on the floor in a shattered tapastry. You wipe the tears from your eyes to bare false witness, But my eyes can see your beat red cheeks. They say in every darkness there is a gliming light, But stranded in darkness for all your days brings many lights. The darkness lights the clear summer night, and in the middle stands the moon. The man in the moon glares back worringly at you, Can't you tell the man in the moon is me? I float down and embrace your cheek, the darkness making it cold to the touch. I try to hold you in my arms with my cape swaying in the wind, You only pull back, saying you must stand alone. You stand alone to protect those you love, More importantly, you stand alone to protect yourself. My smile is cocky and youthful, the pain of lose is not as great in me as it is in you. I lift my cape to offer you a view, A view of a land where you can be that too. Would you enjoy that? Would you enjoy not feeling any more lose? Then come with me, angel, Come with me to a land where the Cherry Blossoms always bloom. Come with me to a land where the tree braves the wind, Willing to sacrafice it's own trunk to keep you from harm's way. Come to a land where the sky is only clear and beautiful daily, A land where the only black in the sky is the shadows of the birds flying over head. The land is yours for the taking, Please understand that with all your heart. The land is the person standing in front of you, Standing with his arms wide open for you to be held in. Let me be that tree braving the wind, Let me protect you from all the pains blowing in the wind. Feel my arms lock around you gently and protect you, Together we can watch the Cherry Blossoms together... ...Would you like that? SO now my uestion is this: What do you do when you know what you want, but also know that to get there you have to lose all that you treasure? What do you do when to get to that one place you would feel safe, you must give up all you believe in? I cried for the first time in years today, haunted by echoes of being wise. People are always telling me that I am wise, but either they lie, or Wisdom is not all it is cracked up to be. Why else would your heart ache for one thing, and your head tell you that you must wait? For I know I must. All of my dreams, and all of my self-respect would collapse into ashes if I went ahead unprepared- and I would never forgive myself if I gave away my heart to someone I could never commit to, or love........