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    Hugs-Love and Great Karma
    Hugs-Love and Great Karma
    Hugs-Love and Great Karma
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    Hugs-Love and Great Karma

    By Cindy J. Smith

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    Too many people are feeling lost and disillusioned.  Cindy believes that, despite the hate and cruelty that surrounds her, beauty can be found if we look for it.  In this collection of poems, she shares her belief that a smile or a bit of understanding can change the world.  One act of kindness, one smile, brightens everything it touches.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCindy J. Smith
    Release dateJun 3, 2021
    ISBN9798201952280
    Hugs-Love and Great Karma
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    Cindy J. Smith

    I grew up in the country of Upstate New York and now reside in the boonies of Midwestern Indiana. I am a coffee-addicted truck driver (as if there was any other kind). I have written poetry all my life. The topics and poems just come into my head. I try to write in the first person for most of them. I do this as people are more apt to relate to something when they are not feeling like they are the target. Some of my poems are true, either for me or for someone I know. I believe in magic and that life is worth living. I hope that my words will touch every reader in some way. I want everyone to open their eyes and really see what is before them.

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      Hugs-Love and Great Karma - Cindy J. Smith

      DEDICATION

      THIS COLLECTION IS dedicated in loving memory of my sister in heaven, Rae Jo Booth. Her pixie size hid a big heart as well as a short fuse. Her love of daisies was lifelong and was a perfect representation of her... she was either happy or sad... there was no in-between. Heaven gained an angel and my heart a new hole.

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      THE DIFFERENCE

      Are we not all the same

      Red blood flows in our veins

      Have eyes to see and ears to hear

      Have hopes and dreams as well as fears

      Yet we choose to seek the one odd thing

      Of this difference, let our voices ring

      Constantly shout about the evilness

      Keeping the world a hate-filled mess

      Not willing to even consider

      Difference could in fact be better

      I refuse to accept this point of view

      I'll praise the difference in each of you

      FIRST TIME

      After you fall in love the first time

      It will never seem as real

      Perhaps your heart hesitates

      Reluctant to share all it feels

      For experience has shown it

      How painful caring can be

      When you find it flowed one way

      Fantasy destroyed by reality

      Somehow love does conquer

      Most of our trepidation

      And though it doesn't feel the same

      It is stronger with a firm foundation

      A WATERFALL OF FAITH

      Life is such a hard road to travel

      Potholes and pitfalls litter the way

      Sadness and heartache fill the horizon

      Hiding the laughter and love from view

      My body trembles as I raise my foot

      Another step into the abyss that is the future

      My will is slowly fading as burdens increase

      Family estranged, my health declining

      What is the point of it all

      Why do I still try so hard to live

      Then I look up into the dark sky

      The sun's rays peeking through the clouds

      Showing me beauty I had forgotten

      God's love shared with all

      Washing away my woes and anger

      In a waterfall of faith

      FIND ME

      Lying on my bed

      I closed my eyes

      Praying that tonight

      I'd sleep peacefully

      Hoping beyond hope

      The haunting whispers

      Would be silent forever

      Never to return

      No, luck was not my friend

      Soft yet clear I heard

      Always the same words

      A mantra repeated nightly

      Find me...Find Me... FIND ME

      I have no clue what it means

      Who is this me I am to find

      Don't they know to whom they speak

      Can't they see that I am lost

      I can't figure out myself

      How could I possibly find some stranger

      Why would I even try to

      Find me...Find Me... FIND ME

      Please, please voices

      Tell me who I am to find

      Where am I to look

      If you will tell me where to start

      I will search

      If only to have you leave me alone

      Find me...Find Me... FIND ME

      Me, Me, ME...Who is ME????

      "Listen to my voice

      Open your ears and listen close

      Find me...Find Me... FIND ME"

      Finally, I listened

      I knew that voice

      It came from inside me

      I looked deep into my soul

      And I FOUND ME

      A MEMORY

      A wrinkle in time

      That's what it is

      Just a bump in the road

      A blip in life's continuum

      Hands of a clock sticking

      Popping backwards a little

      Pausing for a moment

      Before moving forward

      Reflecting what was

      What could have been

      Then it rushes onward

      Ticking away the years

      Striving, reaching out

      Stretching towards the future

      Until it pauses once again

      Allowing the past to return

      Become real again

      Another memory relived

      Heartache or happiness

      Either way it is the past

      Wrinkling the fabric of time

      WHY DO I LOVE YOU

      It is not because your face is nice

      Nor the color or style of your hair

      I doubt it is the sound of your voice

      Maybe it is the way you seem to care

      It's not due to the fact we exchanged some words

      Nor is it the way your touch makes me feel

      I know it’s because we've been together for years

      I think that just proves my love is real

      Why do I love you? I do not know

      But it's a truth the whole world can see

      By the look in my eyes, the smile on my face

      When you are standing so close to me

      FIX IT

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