For You...

[Srbo]

Oh, I have no doubt, I will complain again. Bitch and moan about this and that, taxes, the weather, people, music, sh*tty line-ups, prices of gas, about me, myself and I. I`ll be a miserable son of a b*tch, a cynic, a blunt, if not rude person, or just a plain a**hole.
But not tonight.
God, how stupid we are. So many questions, so many ifs, whats hows...and for what?!
We gonna be happier if we know?! Who has really gotten happier by some knowledge he was looking for and when he finally found it...how was his heart?! Lighter, better, full of joy?! Or were you angry, maybe scared, because you weren`t supposed to know in the first place?!
We don`t need to know. We need to be as laid back as possible, revel in life, be in awe like kids are in awe of everything. I`m sure everybody has noticed that kids are always happy, that those little people are indeed the only good people on this planet. Truly, truly good, from the inside out.
Until they get too many answers to their never-ending flow of questions...and then they aren`t kids anymore, then they are us. The bitter ones.
Damn, man, what does it take to understand that we are mortal, that everything will pass, that NOTHING, and I truly mean nothing is worth of being unhappy for a longer period of time?! Yes, I know, I sound like somebody who has a few million bucks stashed away, who never encountered death of a loved one, who doesn`t know how it is to be late on bills, worry about tomorrow, who is free of any kind of trouble.
I`m not. But whatever it was, whatever it maybe is at this very moment...I should choose to be happy. For it is a choice, for it must be a choice, `cause everything is in your heart, in your soul and mind and you and you alone are the master of that.
And for that, I`ll try really, really hard to be happy tonight. For you. For us.
Happy Anniversary, my dear darling wife, my heart, my life.
Thank you for the years past and for the years to come.
Thank you for loving me.
For I`m eternally loving you....

 

[mustangclaire]

Again, beautiful.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I Am Waiting

Spoiler

I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
for someone to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Second Coming
and I am waiting
for a religious revival
to sweep through the state of Arizona
and I am waiting
for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored
and I am waiting
for them to prove
that God is really American
and I am waiting
to see God on television
piped’ onto church altars
if only they can find
the right channel
to tune in on
and I am waiting
for the Last Supper to be served again
with a strange new appetizer
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for my number to be called
and I am waiting
for the Salvation Army to take over
and I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim the earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
without killing anybody
and I am waiting
for linnets and planets to fall like rain
and I am waiting for lovers and weepers
to lie down together again
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the Great Divide to ‘be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happiness
and I am waiting
for a reconstructed Mayflower
to reach America
with its picture story and tv rights
sold in advance to the natives
and I am waiting
for the lost music to sound again
in the Lost Continent
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting for the day
that maketh all things clear
and I am awaiting retribution
for what America did
to Tom Sawyer
and I am waiting
for the American Boy
to take off Beauty’s clothes
and get on top of her
and I am waiting
for Alice in Wonderland
to retransmit to me
her total dream of innocence
and I am waiting
for Childe Roland to come
to the final darkest tower
and I am waiting
for Aphrodite
to grow live arms
at a final disarmament conference
in a new rebirth of wonder

I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am waiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

It's possible having the poem posted in its entirety violates a copyright code Walter, so just giving you a heads up that it may have to be pulled at some stage.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

The whole post...or only all of Ferlinghetti's words?

I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

You could go ahead and delete the entire post...the above is a link to the poem.

 

[Bryan James]

As usual, we're very much on the same page and at a similar stage, Srbo.

Except for the Your Wife part...

 

[Spideyman]

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.

Beautiful post, Srbo.

 

[Srbo]

Thanks, my friends.

Ummm, Flake and Walter...is there a problem?! I don`t understand your posts...
Happy Sunday to you all.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Thanks, my friends.

Ummm, Flake and Walter...is there a problem?! I don`t understand your posts...
Happy Sunday to you all.

No, no.. just sorting something out with Walt about a poem he had posted, nothing to worry about.

 

[Srbo]

Ah, OK.

Hey Bryan, good to see you, man.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...to be loved with the certainty and depth that your wife is loved, makes her envied amongst all of womankind....she has your heart and soul, and may she always know how lucky she is...Happy Anniversary my brother and sister in law...

 

[Walter Oobleck]

your post reminded me of Ferlinghetti's poem that I enjoy much. I am waiting for a perpetual rebirth of wonder. Questions. Wonder. Being childlike. Flake wondered if posting the entire poem violated copyright, so I posted a link had her remove the initial post. Super day here...60s maybe, got the truck cleaned out, have to go out in a bit and start putting tools scaffolding my siding break in it for tomorrow. Still have a patch of snow in the garden. Happy anniversary, Srbo & wife & family. Ours isn't until September...will be 19 years.

 

[Srbo]

Thank you, Scott.
And you, too, Walt, for clarifying.