Three Word Wednesday - Open your eyes

Three Word Wednesday - Open your eyes

Prompts: Enchanting, adjective: delightfully charming or attractive.

Fanatical, adjective: filled with excessive and single-minded zeal, obsessively concerned with something.

Giddy, adjective: having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy, disorienting and alarming, but exciting, excitable and frivolous; verb: make (someone) feel excited to the point of disorientation.

She was enchanting and fun

He was fanatical and dull

Crunching numbers every day

She was giddy with life

Seizing it in both hands

He watched her from a far

Wondering what she had

To be so happy about

She was poor

She worked too long

As a waitress and a cook

Yet her smile never wavered

He decided he needed her

So he could take her joy

And make it his

For his life was miserable

And oh so tedious

Surely such a treasure should be his?

He spruced himself up

Put on fake smiles and manners

But she saw through him

And refused him

Yet she continued to smile

One day when he came to the diner

She wasn’t there

The other waitress sullen

And deadly  dull

Told him she’d married her true love

He vowed to change that day

And find joy within and without

That’s when he opened his eyes

To the woman who had

For ten long years

Smiled at him

Every morning at the coffee shop

On her way to work

She was the one

He decided 

His own true love

He'd found his happiness

Won

                                                       ©Sheilagh Lee May 18, 2016

Three Word Wednesday- Matter

Three Word Wednesday- Matter

Babble, verb: talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way, reveal something secret or confidential by talking impulsively or carelessly, make the continuous murmuring sound of water flowing over stones; noun: the sound of people talking quickly and in a way that is difficult or impossible to understand, foolish, excited, or confused talk.

Cherish, verb: protect and care for (someone) lovingly, hold (something) dear, keep (a hope or ambition) in one's mind.

Damned, adjective: (in Christian belief) condemned by God to suffer eternal punishment in hell, used for emphasis, especially to express anger or frustration, used to emphasize the surprising nature of something (damnedest).

I babble when I meet new people

I’ll be damned if I know why

Or maybe I do

I’m nervous and shy

I speak of the weather

Sometimes I say too much

About family or me

But I remember to listen

Intently to what they have to say

For I cherish the company

The stories they bring

The worlds they open up to me

Just paying attention

Can make their day

And mine

Brighter, happier

Feeling like we both matter.

                                                           ©Sheilagh Lee May 11, 2016

Happy Mother's Day Mom

Mom it doesn't seem so long ago

I had to say goodbye

Although as the years have gone bye

I still find my self thinking of you

I miss your loving smile

And your warm embrace

The changing expressions on your face

I miss your encouragement

Your steadfast love 
And you always being there
I pick up the phone
And want to call you
To tell you 
Good news and bad

Somehow it doesn’t seem fair

That you are not there

To see your grandchildren

Succeed and grow into adults

To see me finally succeed
In writing  and publishing my books

But I know you’re there in heaven

Though it’s been many long years
Without you

That you watch over us 
And look in a time or two

And still whisper encouragement 

That we know is from you.

I want to wish you 
Peace and joy and say

Thanks Mom for being you
Thanks for your patience
And love
Even when you struggled yourself
And being there all the days

I had with you 
Because they were the best, 
All good because you made it so    

Because you loved your children

And showed us each and every day

How lucky we were to have you 

And show us the way to be the people 
We are today.

Thanks Mom 
I'll always love you.
Happy Mother's Day
©Sheilagh Lee May 8, 2016