A woman, like you.
A woman, like you.
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Few people can bring you from self-made hell. When a sweet woman offer a soft hand and love. Even the dead can be rebirth.
I was standing at a distance listening to you.
You were speaking against hate and violence.
A voice so soft and kind.
It made me stop to listen.
I looked at your beautiful face.
I tried to hide my wish for you.
To be able to look into your eyes.
And hold you close.
I make a fool’s wish to be sitting with you.
To be able to look into your blue eyes at the ocean.
Listen to you talk about great dreams.
You spoke with confident.
Your strong words were against hate and war.
Your smile and sweet voice create dreams and hope of peace
for the people listening.
You came to me. Whispered
” My lonely poet you came to hear me at the demonstration.
Did you like and understand what I was trying to say.”
I told you. “Your words were logical and common sense. I felt hope listening to your
voice. Sometime all we have is hope and dreams.”
A sad smile overtook you.
You told me. “When the dreamers forget to dream. The people with strong hearts
forget to love. The kind and generous people forget to help. What will we become?
Just robots waiting for death.”
You wrapped your arms around me.
Gave me sweet kisses and pulled away.
You whisper “later my love.”
I stood alone at the Santa Cruz beach.
Thank the lord of life and death for a woman like you.
Bad dreams and wrong decisions led me to Santa Cruz on a sunny California day.
I was drinking and wasting my life.
You found me at a coffee shop on a cool spring day.
You sat at my table and asked me “What was I writing?
I told you poetry of a sort .
I gave you my journal to read .
I watched your eyes read my words for two hours.
You put the book down.
Told me “You are a poet my friend. Pain and sorrow are in your words.
Scream for calm and peace in your words. You must get published. Words of
love and peace must be poster for all to see.”
Your beautiful blue eyes stole my heart from the first moment.
Listening to your dream and goals.
As we walk through the Santa Cruz street.
You took my hand.You whispered. ” I need a friend and I can feel your loneliness.”
With the gift of a sweet kiss we bounded our two lives together.
As the sun fell into the sea.
You asked me to share your dreams
and not be afraid to stand against things wrong in this world.
I give a silence yes.
I know Angels are rare in a life.
I told you as long as you need me I will be there for you.
A woman, like you.
Can light up the night and day
and create dreams in a dead soul.
Coyote
1994
Always an honor to read your work. 🙂
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Thank you for your kind words. I do appreciate.
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This is beautiful John. So honest and touching. I love the last couple of lines 🙂
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Thank you for the comment. I like going back in time when youth was my wealth.
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Yes it was but unfortunately most of us don’t realise it until it’s too late 😦
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You are correct. I knew what I had. Even for a short time. I was taught a better way to live and think. Thank you for the comment.
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Beautiful vulnerability ~ Thank you!
Tomas
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Thank you for the comment. If we are lucky. Kind people show us a better way to live and think.
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I like that you revisit and share your past writing. So much of it is evocative, beautiful.
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My life today is work and pay bills. Hard to create poetry today. I look back in time. Edit the old poetry and put it out. Old days. The internet wasn’t around. I tell the kids. Travel, have fun and test life. One day you will wish you did. Thank you for the comment.
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How beautiful….this is so touching! I can’t say more. This is now my third top favorite poem of yours besides the poems Monterey and Bounded Love. Keep writing and sharing!
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Thank you for the kind comment. Writing been my peace for 36 years now. Good to write your thoughts down. Good and bad. Allowed us to remember the good people we shared time with a long life.
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I have one word for this and one word only: Beautiful. 🙂
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Thank you Eva. I appreciate the comment.
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We all need angels in our lives 🙂
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I agree. Kind people lead us to the right direction. Thank you for the comment.
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Aww
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Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
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A old poem. Santa Cruz was a beautiful city. Filled with hopeful and artistic people. Thank you for the comment.
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Thank you for reading. Good to go back in time when age was my wealth.
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