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This is the section of Strive4Impact.com, where you can read, every day, something I wrote since I was 13 years old (1993).  Some of it's adolescent angst, but some of it is quite good, and I hope you'll agree.  What are we up to now? Currently, my wife and I are traveling the world and blogging our experience.  We may have been somewhere you would like to go, or maybe we could come to meet you?  Either way, you may find our reviews and advice helpful.  Check it out at http://www.CarrieAndJonathan.com

 

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This Presence I Feel Coming From Her

April 1994
(Jonathan is 14, and is heartbroken over a girl named Jackie who he met at World Youth Day in Summer 1993)

What is this
this presence I feel
coming from her
is it something real
it's unlike anything
I'm able to explain
and perhaps it's that presence
that's causing me this pain

That presence is there,
but I can't know her
this is a problem for which
I can find no cure

It's in her eyes
and in her voice
when I know these,
I want to rejoice

I don't know what it is
that she fears,
but it makes me want
to break down in tears
for not seeing her
makes me hurt
and I feel without her
I'm lying in the dirt
if only she were here
I would tell her about
these things I feel,
and the things I want to shout

And I would listen
to her voice deep inside
I'd be a friend
and also a guide

Posted by on November 21, 2009 7:05 PM |



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