As I (temporarily) leave the corporate world :
- goodbye pumps and heels; hello sneakers and espadrilles
- goodbye Oracle & SAP; hello Friendster, Yahoo and PEP
- goodbye Neanderthals; hello kindergarten
- goodbye to 5am alarm; hello to the 7am sunshine
- goodbye to scuttlebutt and office scandals; hello to my child’s epoch
- goodbye corporate bureaucracy; hello penny arcades
To you, Luis…..
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If you’re ever going to love me, love me now while I can know
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All the sweet and tender feelings which from the real affection flow.
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Love me now, while I am living; do not wait till I am gone
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And then chisel it in marble-warm love words on ice-cold stone.
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If you have, dear, sweet thoughts about me, why not whisper them to me?
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Don’t you know ‘twould make me happy and as glad could be?
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If you wait till I am sleeping, ne’er to waken here again,
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There’ll be walls of earth between us and I couldn’t hear you then.
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If you knew someone was thirsting for a drop o water, sweet
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Would you be so slow to bring it? Would you step with laggard feet?
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There are tender hearts all ‘round us who are thirsting for our love;
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Why withold from them what nature makes them crave all else above?
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I won’t need your warm caresses when the grass grows over my face;
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I won’t crave for your love or kisses in my last low resting place.
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So, then, if it’s but a little bit,
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Let me know while I am living; I can own and treasure it.
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Lifted from Ad Infinitum
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by Vincent Benjamin Cua, Jr.
I was cleaning my drive C:\ files and found this poem.
I can’t remember where I got this from (or somebody might have sent this to me).
Just sharing……
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This is a beautiful poem. There is an appeal from a Zimbabwean couple
at the bottom of message, not asking for anything
more than that you hand the poem on.
The husband wrote the poem.
TO MY CHILD
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I
see your face and laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what
you want to wear, and smile and say how perfect it is.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the
laundry and pick you up and take you to the park to play.
Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink
and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone
and keep the computer off, and sit with you in the
backyard and blow bubbles.
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once,
not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the
ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won’t worry about what you
are going to be when you grow up, or second guess
every decision I have made where you are concern ed.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me
bake cookies, and I won’t stand over you trying to fix
them.
Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald’s
and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys.
Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms
and tell you a story about how you were born and how
much I love you.
Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late
while we sit on the porch and count all the stars.
Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours and miss my favourite TV shows.
Just for this evening when I run my finger through
your hair as you pray, I will simply be grateful that
God has given me the greatest gift ever
given.
I will think about the mothers and fathers who are
searching for their missing children.
The mothers and fathers who are visiting their children’s graves
instead of their bedrooms.
The mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms
watching their children suffer senselessly and screaming
inside that little body
And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer.
It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask him for
nothing, except one more day………….
