Monday, February 16, 2015

Unconditional Love



I was in my 30's when we lost Toby, my son's 2-year-old dog. Franky, 10, and Toby were inseparable best friends. She was an inside dog and only allowed to play in the back yard. She was not accustomed to the craziness of the outside world. On this particular day, Toby was excited to know Franky was home from school and ran outside to meet him. Franky called her name, unknowingly placing her right in front of an oncoming vehicle. The impact was loud, but my son's screams linger in my mind even today. "Mom, Toby!!! Mom, Toby!!!" I ran outside, went to Toby and picked her up, held her in my arms and repeated the same cry over and over, "I'm sorry Toby!" I was there to see the paling of her eyes as she died. We were heart-broken and missing a very important part of our family. The driver of the car had fled and we were devastated at what Toby had suffered. We had a funeral for Toby and we all said our goodbyes. Franky gave a heart-wrenching farewell to his baby. She holds a very dear place in our hearts. Since Toby's death I have never been the same. I realized that our pets are a part of our family and that to lose them could be psinful.

Many years before I had lost Rex, my dog and best friend. At just 7 years of age I lost Rex, my white shaggy dog. He was my world, my best bud. One day I got home from school and he was nowhere to be seen. I waited, rationalized what I could in my young mind, waited some more. Everyday I would come home expecting to find him waiting. I gather my parents could not handle it anymore and made up a story for my sake. My mother said that they had received word that Rex had fallen in love with a beautiful girl dog. He did not come home , they said, because he now had babies and could not come back to me. They reassured me a few times that he was happy in his new home and eventually I stopped asking. However,  I never let another dog become significant in my life again until Toby. 

I came across a very special something today that I believe many animal lovers will understand. I wanted to share these words because they so precisely reflect the transformation that loving my dogs has brought into my life. It is painful to lose them, but they add such love and joy to our lives.

The passage read:

"It came to me that every time I lose a dog they take a piece of my heart with them. And every new dog who comes into my life, gifts me with a piece of their heart. If I live long enough, all the components of my heart will be dog, and I will become as generous and loving as they are." -Unknown



Titan 2-months-old

Mr. Nibbles came into our lives a few months after Toby's loss and helped us heal a little. He was just a baby when we got him. We all needed to fill the void and embraced him with all our hearts. He turned 2-years-old today. We celebrated his birthday with our new family member Titan (Pictured above).

Mr. Nibbles 2-years-old

Mom, dad, two brothers, sister, and our 2 dogs and 4 cats. We are all very happy at this time. Do we look forward to saying goodbye to one of our loved ones? Of course not. I love every single member of my family including my furry babies. We share a bond that is unexplainable. It took almost three decades of my life to find this special love for animals again after losing Rex. I'm making up for it every day with my babies now.  Not only do we love them, but they provide us with an unconditional love that is impermeable and makes us feel complete.

-In memory of Tobilias Zaragoza aka Toby. Thank you Toby for all the love you gave us.



Friday, February 13, 2015

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day

I was never one to have a flock of fellas at my door. I was very shy growing up. Probably from all the moving around with my parents.  Never thought much of myself. I would look in the mirror and an ugly duckling was staring back at me. I believed no one could love me. I was the youngest of eight children, my sister being 7 years older. I grew up lonely, my face usually glued to a book. I traveled to so many places in my books. I fell in love, I cried, I battled dragons and many other things I did in my imaginary world. I don't remember ever getting a present for Valentine's day or having a secret valentine. Oh, but I was a lover. I had too many crushes to count, puppy love. Growing up I was always on the side lines looking at my friends fall in love, date, go to prom. I was just the fly on the wall. There wasn't social media or internet dating in my day. You either had friends or you were a loner. Our traveling every year from April to September affected my ability to grow attached to one place for too long. I think they call it attachment disorder nowadays. My parents loved me enough for all the friends I never had. Still, having no friends takes a toll after a while. So looking back at my life, not one Valentine's day stands out. They were all pretty lonely events.

Eventually I did marry. I had three beautiful children. I have made every Valentine's Day super special for them. Even if their love life isn't filled with tons of courtships, I want them to know that I love them and that I am their Valentine. It's like Christmas in February at our house. All three wake up to big beautiful bouquets of love nick nacks. I spend months preparing them. They sneak into my room in the middle of the night with their home-made presents especially for me. Flowers from our garden, paintings, drawings all adorn my room on February 14 of every year. After we all get home for the day, we get all dolled up and have an evening of dining and dancing right in our living room.  I have to say that our Valentine's day is one of the most memorable days in our whole year. It's a day when we celebrate how lucky we are to have each other and how much we are in love with life. So on this day, if you don't have a valentine, find a way to make your day special just for you. Do not be sad. Be glad that you are a part of a day when love is celebrated by all.

Happy Valentine's Day to you...

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

My Love

The love of my life, Robert

When I met you, I never imagined how important a role you would play in my life. I did not know I was meeting my best friend and my secret lover.  You are my best friend because I can tell you everything. I can share with you my fears, my tears, my dreams and myself. I do not have to pretend to be someone that I am not. You accept me just the way I am. Every day you find reasons to love me more. Every day you make me fall in love with you all over again. You are my secret lover because when you touch me, my whole body shivers. When you make love to me, I feel our souls blend into one. Your caresses so soft, as if I were made of porcelain. Your kisses are sensual and reveal your every desire. Understand my love, that when I thought cupid had ignored my cries, you came to me and awakened my desire to live. I breathe. I live. I am, because of you. I know that I do not say enough, how much I need you. I know that I have never told you that my breathe would expire if I lost you. My darling you complete me in so many ways. I cannot pretend, I have found in you what I have needed all my life. I have found in you a splendor that compares to no other. On this day of the lover, the love birds, the soul mates, I want to thank you for shaping me into a better human being. The twinkle in your eye, the skip in your step, the smile on your face let me know that I have found true love. No I have not found perfection. Yes, I have found a man who strives to make me feel that I am amazing just the way I am. I love you. I need you, and I would be half of a whole without you.

Susana

Forbidden Love

Zubia needed to straighten her thoughts. She was lost in her own life. She wasn't sure what she was doing anymore. She looked to the side of her bed and there he lay sleeping soundly as if the world had nothing against him, as if when he woke everything would be just perfect. He slept not knowing the chaos that existed in her soul.  Zubia's soul, her mind, her body all wanted to run as they have wanted to so many times before. Everytime she had to commit to one person, to say I Love You, she wanted to run as far as she could go. Only this time it was different because he was a soul worth loving, worth cherishing, worth needing. Still, she hesitated, she knew she would not stay. She knew the day would come when she would sit him down on the bed and say, "Tabrez, I don't love you the way a woman should love a man, I love you the way a sister should love a brother." He would have so many questions and I would have the answers, but they would be answers that would only hurt him more. They would be truths that go back years. You see, Zubia fell in love three years ago, almost seeming like a lifetime. Each day that she lived since then was excrutiating. She had to continue her daily life, but didn't want to live without the love of her life. He is married now and has one child, a beautiful little girl that curiously she loved as if it were her own. As if that child had grown in her womb and she had bore that child for them, for him. Zubia wished some day she could touch the baby's beautiful hair, carry her in her arms. It was a dream that would surely never come true, but still she held on to the uncertain. That dim light of hope that one holds on to when there is no hope left. Zubia wanted so strongly to block out all her friends who said it was time to move on, her mother who told her that it was time for her to make a life with another man.

So there she sat trying to hold on to the only thought that overwhelmed her mind, " Zubia you have a wonderful man in your life, he will love you forever, he will care for you, he will caress you, he would give his life for you." Yet those words were no comfort to the agony and the pain that she felt in her whole being. Those words only tore her soul apart because she could not have Tabrez be her lover, her best friend, her soul mate. He was gone, in a completely different world where she could never belong, where she would be seen as a threat, as a woman unworthy of a man, a ghost of a woman.  Zubia would be just what she was now;  a ghost, a hollow being with no chance for air, for touching, feeling, caressing.  There, in India, with Sonu she would be hated, misunderstood; she would have no say of what her destiny would be.  Yet here in her own home their was no difference. Why didn't she just go after Sonu?  After all, what she had here was not a life.  Would anyone in their right mind call what she was living a life.  She hid in her room, thinking incessantly of what could have been, of what could be, of what should be.  She looked in the internet for flights to India, she picked up the phone and she cried into the handset because she couldn't dial the number.  Zubia resisted her every desire to dial the number and book a flight.  There was no one to stop her but herself.    She had to quickly put down the handset and clean up the tears on her face as Tabrez woke up and said he had to get in the shower.  

Tabrez would soon be ready for work and when he came over and asked for a kiss she would look at him and want to stop him.  Everyday she wanted to build up the courage to stop him, to fall to her knees and beg him for forgiveness because she could not love him.  She had learned to put on a face that to him showed love, affection and what he needed for his life.  Tabrez never failed to tell her how much he loved her.  To him she was the most precious and beautiful woman in the world and he would bring her flowers out of the blue, look for her warmth and her love consistently, not knowing that every time he sought her touch she ached inside, way deep inside where one aches an ache that can't be explained.  Everyday she stopped herself from yelling out to him, "Stop, open your eyes, can't you see what you have in front of you."  Tabrez said "I love you" and quickly put on his coat and walked out the door.

All Zubia could feel was relief that she didn't have to hold her breathe, that she didn't have to keep her secret.  These walls around her knew who she was.  These walls shed tears with her everyday as she tried to fall asleep.  Her pillow had memories of every time a tear fell soflty into its' fibers.  Her bed so warmly comforted her, as she imagined Sonu, while she lay there cradling herself like a child.  She was dead, she was the walking dead and she knew that in this world many shared her same feeling of desperation.  Life was a maze of success and failures and if you took the wrong turn you would end up in a dead end.  For some there was a retracing of steps, for others this was the end of their journey. Which was she?  Could she pick herself up, retrace her steps and have the courage to go into the darkness to get to the light on the other side. " I'll always Love You Sonu.  I will always need you Sonu.  My soul is yours Sonu," she yelled at the top of her lungs.  Anyone would think, as she collapsed to the floor, that she had gone insane. "Am I insane? Do people love unconditionally through death and beyond?  What will I do with this broken heart?" she asked herself.  She was pitiful and even she felt pity for herself.  She even felt embarrassed that her life was at a stand still while Sonu kept living his life, sharing his life with his wife and his daughter.  What if he had a perfect home where he happily went to hug his wife and embrace his daughter as she called him daddy.  

You foolish girl make the voices stop. I don't know where to start because I don't want you to misunderstand this forsaken woman.  Some would say Zubia was a co-dependant woman who held on to a lost cause, others would tell her this man was not worth the time, others would say that there are many fish in the sea. Our societal standards would diminish her undying love to a mere crush not worthy of a second glance.   However, there is only one diamond in the rough.  This couple, if you ever had a chance to see them together, was that diamond in the rough. So I am sure you ask yourself, if they were so perfect together why was he married in India with a distant cousin and had chosen to have a daughter?  In many ways you will probably judge him for his choices and dislike her for her weakness.  All I can speak is the truth and you can judge them as you will.  This will not change their pain, their agony, their sacrifices for boundaries, cultural differences, prejudice, injustice. 

Their love grew at a time when the United States was at war with the Middle East.  Nine eleven had already destroyed the liberties so long embraced by the American people.  Policies had changed, privacy was invaded, phones were tapped, the internet had governmental control.  The people wondered if we would ever become a world of liberty, of freedom of choice, freedom of speech and a country where we could be free.  Any person with an ounce of understanding would know that the United States and the rest of the world had been transformed into a battle field and it would never return to what we had known growing up,what our forefathers had fought to protect.  That world as we knew it was gone forever.  People were dying of hunger, poverty and there was military chaos everywhere.  It was a time of uncetainty for many people, for many countries.  Zubia was involved in helping to protect our country from terrorism, espionage.  She was very dedicated to the liberties that still remained. 

I'm going to start by telling you how Zubia met Sonu.  Zubia met Sonu in June of 2010 as she was working a normal day.  Then,  Zubia was working as a private operative on some governmental issues and she was at the National Criminal Investigation services office picking up some paperwork.  She walked in on Sonu and Mr. Amberson discussing issues unrelated to her case.  She didn't pay much attention to who was in the room other than Mr. Amberson.  Politely, as was not customary for Zubia when working mainly with men, Amberson stopped her in her tracks and said," Zubia this is Mr. Alam.  Mr. Alam this is Zubia, a person who works on some of our more difficult cases."   Mr. Alam quickly stood up and held her hand in his and gave it a tender kiss.  It's a pleasure to meet you maam.  Zubia saw his beautiful eyes and felt mesmerized for a second, then she realized she was there on business and her abvious blushing gave away her discomfort.  Zubia just nodded her head.  "A pleasure to meet you sir." she said quickly.   She told Amberson she would pick up the papers that she needed and then she would be on her way.  It was abvious she was flustered because she had turned from a light tan into what felt like a beet red. She quickly stepped out of the room afraid to make any further conversation with Mr. Alam.  She could feel his stare as she walked out the door.  Ten minutes later she had finished what she had to do at the office and went to let Amberson know that she was on her way out.  She quickly glanced into the room and was disappointed to see that Mr. Alam was no longer in his office.  As she walked out the security double-doors she heard a deep voice say, "Ms.," as she took a stance to protect herself, a habit from years of top security work.  "Can I help you?" she asked quietly when she realized it was Mr. Alam.  He stated, "I just wanted to properly introduce myself. My name is Sonu and I am here on business.  Forgive me for being so forthecoming, but I was wondering if we could exchange business cards so that I may contact you when I get home?" Zubia wasn't even aware of what Mr. Alam did for the military or where home was, but she was so tongue-tied that she could not carry a normal conversation with this man that unexplainably made her feel fluttering in her insides. People did not make such an impression on Zubia.  Many people came in and out of her life due to her work and she moved on meeting more people on the way.  She was very protective of her private life.  She was a loner, dedicated mainly to her job and her home. Zubia did not know what to say except to reach into her pocket and grab her business cards, finding that she dropped them all over the floor.  She felt like a fool because now there was no doubt he had made an impression on her.  He quickly bent down and picked up all the cards and politely put them in order for her.  He said, "For all that work I deserve to keep atleast one of these," as he chuckled and placed her business card in his front pocket.  She placed her cards back in her coat pocket as he reached out to give her his business card.  She was still shuffling with her papers as he stated with a broad smile, "Uhmmm, Zubia would you care to take my business card or shall I call you?"  She took his card and thanked him for helping her. Zubia's mind had lost control.  She quickly gathered her thoughts and transformed into Zubia, the unbreakable.  When Zubia became nervous, she put up a facade and that's when her strong personality came out.  "Thank you very much for your help Mr. Alam.  I am sorry that you will be leaving so soon. I would have thought you would be in town longer as training is barely beginning for the officers."  "It was very nice to meet you."   What she really wanted to do was run to her car and hide.  Mr. Alam smiled, looked her in the eyes and said, "I will be calling you."  She quickly shook his hand and walked what she thought were miles to her car.  When she arrived in her car and got in her seat, she lay her forehead on the steering wheel and started laughing uncontrollably.  What had just happened?  Had she actually made such an impression on a man of his caliber; handsome, educated, well-groomed and with a voice that made her body tremble.  Silly girl, he would never call.  He was just being one of the boys and flirting to see how uncomfortable he could make her.  She grinned all the way back to her home.  Zubia could not get Sonu out of her head.  She was done for the day as she had worked the night before on some stolen military property.  Zubia was tired when she arrived at home and served herself a glass of wine and said with a smile, "To Sonu.  May you have a safe trip home."  She sat on her living room couch for a few more minutes and fell asleep, forgetting everything, even Sonu.  Something that one day would be impossible to do. 

Zubia kept herself busy with work and attending school.  She had her daily routine where she would go out in the mornings and run a couple of miles to the gym, workout and come back home.  Her life, for the most part, was quite ordinary.  The people around her respected her work ethic and understood there was a sense of privacy about Zubia.  She kept her private life very separate from her work.  She was efficient, was very good at locating and interrogating suspects, getting confessions and letting the NCIS department take over.  Her services were needed on a sporadic basis but this suited her well because she was studying to become an attorney, a desire of hers since she was a child.  She had worked in the private sector now for about eight years.  Before that she had worked as a government employee.  She found that the flexibility of working on her own made it easier for her to pursue her desire to become a litigator.  Zubia was interested in working with a private firm once she had completed her schooling.  Every once in a while she would work private investigation services for private attorneys to continue to network with the legal community.  Her experience with the military was of interest to her and allowed her to learn how to build a strong case against illegal activity in order to be able to disect that illegal activity as a private attorney and find the best stragedies to defend her clients.  School took up alot of her time when she wasn't working.  She had long hours of studying but always did well because of her outside experience.  Zubia was always well-prepared to make arguments, build documentation to support her arguments and believed that she would be quite successful as a private litigator once done with her studies. 

There was something about Zubia that only her family shared with her.  This was a secret that would haunt her for the rest of her life.  The memories, the trauma, the abuse, the humiliation, the victimization that she allowed herself to sucumb to embarrassed her and at the same time made her the person she was today.  Had she not been through the war zone, she could not be such a good soldier today.  She would have earned a purple heart for having rescued herself from that battle zone.  Zubia had been married once and the memories held on as if it had been just yesterday.  The doctor who treated her after her divorce said she had suffered post traumatic stress disorder.  All Zubia knew was that at such a young age she had gone from a child who looked at the world with innocence into a strong, resilient woman who saw the world with suspicion and always used her keen aptitude for judging people to know how to keep her distance.  Through her marriage she had developed survival skills that one would only learn after a lifetime of living, growing, learning that the world was a ruthless place of existence.  She was 20-years-old when she married.  I know this will sound kind of selfish, but luckily no children came of that marriage. She was married to a vicious man for five excrutiating years.  In those five years, she lived a hell that she would never wish on anyone else.  She had just finished Junior college and she was about to go on to University to study English, for her dream then was to be a professor at a well-respected university.  She had always had an affinity for studying since she was a little girl.  She was an only child and lived a middle-class life with her mother and father.  Even as a child she favored teachers over other students.  Her teachers would encourage her to go play with the other children, but she would tell her teachers that she enjoyed helping them with classroom chores, all the time observing what she one day thought would be her role in this world.  She was absolutely in love with the idea of becoming a teacher.  She once heard someone say, "Those who can't make it in the real world teach." She thought then, silly man don't you know that what you are today is because of those teachers.  She confided in those teachers her goals, her dreams, and they knew that Zubia expected nothing from herself but the best.  It was a standard that her parents had taught her.  Her parents worked hard to give Zubia a good life and all they asked in return was that she do her best in school and pursue a career that made her blossom; that was fulfilling to her.  

Zubia lost her father at a time when she needed guidance in transitioning into the adult world.  She was eighteen-years-old when her father died.  This was a great loss to both her and her mother because such a small family relied on one another for everything.  Zubia's mother took it the hardest because she had been married since the age of sixteen to the same man. He had been good to both Zubia and her mother.  After his death Zubia longed to have that male role model in her life.  She did not understand though how a naieve young lady like herself could fall into the claws of a wolf.  She did not undestand the dangers that existed in the world outside her little circle of trust.  She and her mother continued living in the same home and although she had planned to move away for University, she opted to attend the University of Arizona to complete her studies in English and Forensic Investigation.  Zubia demonstrated just what an excellent student she had become when she was chosen to enter the college of Education at the university.  More than two-thousand people had applied to the program and she among twenty-six students had been accepted.  She was also accepted into the honors program which allowed for all her studies to be covered.  She had no doubt that she would come out of this program with excellent credentials and she would easily obtain an internship at a University, perhaps even the same University she was to attend. The level of education that this University provided was excellent.  She knew that in one semester she had learned more than she had learned in two years of junior college. All of her professors were impressed at her ability to push herself to excel.  The program that she had enrolled in was special because unlike most programs that have hundreds of students in one class, most of her classes had the same students that had been accepted into the program with her.









Thursday, February 5, 2015

My Children

Something tugs inside of me. It is a fear of what I have accomplished with my children. I worked diligently to obtain my education, a major in Psycholgy and a minor in English and Spanish. I graduated right as my first son was born. I took my finals a day after giving birth to him. I knew I had to give him a good life. Later, I worked vigorous and non-relenting hours to provide for what was now three children. I always had my own drive to succeed. I didn't want to end up in the agricultural fields, like my parents. Not because I was ashamed, because after all, my parents had raised eight children by working long into the night in those fields. We did not always have luxuries, but we always had what we needed. My drive was not to surpass their accomplishments. My goal was to be atleast half the parent they had been for us.

My children are now 13, 15 and 19 and I 41. I ask myself if I have done enough to motivate them to be better. I wonder if they will have the drive to survive the chaos of this world. Did I do enough? Did I teach them work ethic? What could I have done differently? All these questions and many more plague my mind. I think in traditional terms of education. I was a "follow the rules to success" kind of girl.  I had to finish high school, college and then University. 

My 19-year-old has already proven that he will not follow the traditional road in his path. He is a special needs person and has struggled with high school. He has decided to attempt getting his GED. It took me some time to accept his decision, but, after all, it is his decision to make. My 15-year-old daughter is very intent on performing well in school. She is into computer games, Manga and reading, reading and reading. The artist in me also came out in her. She draws, paints, writes, sculptures and takes photographs. However,  she has no social skills and has no friends.  This worries me because artists are passionate people that need someone to help them keep in touch with reality. My youngest, oh what can I say about my youngest. He is stubborn and obstinant like his mother. He sits in front of a computer all day learning facts. He inherited an intelligence far greater than I have ever seen, but he hates school. The stretch between now and his 16th birthday seems forever. At that point all I can do is hope he makes the best decision. 

I was self-motivated at their age and knew that I would be attending college. College is what I planned for my children. However,  I must remember that we all have free will and have to make our own decisions. I can't be afraid of life. However,  I am afraid. I am afraid of them falling in love, having their first broken heart. I am afraid of the day they have their first job. I can't be everywhere with them although I wish I could. I have tried to teach them as many lessons about life as possible. I have taught them that to every choice there is a consequence. 

My children growing up is definitely a process for me. Being a control freak, I have to let go of the reigns. I have to allow my butterflies to roam free. God is with them always. I pray he cover them and keep them, wherever they may walk. I pray that God gives me the strength to stand at their side and help them face life's challenges. 

Saturday, January 31, 2015

Tears in Death

The roses on the wall,
red as crimson blood.
The air is thick and blinding.
I am drowning in the flood.

Everywhere, anywhere, look,
there is no way out.
I flail my arms in agony,
senseless to try and shout.

I am crying while I'm dying.
You killed my anxious soul.
The daggers in my heart,
you obtained your dreaded goal.

My last breathe of life,
blood red, deep scarlet red.
The rose petals wilting.
I close my eyes, dead.

Saturday, January 17, 2015

Misery

I fell asleep in the anguish of my pain. There was nothing I could say or think that would make things better. I pulled the covers over my head and delved into my sadness. In my sleep, I forgot my disappointment,  but as soon as I awoke, my heart raced, my head hurt and my soul was aching.

I think there are some people that are never meant to be happy. Just when we think that we have achieved happiness, our world falls apart. Everything comes crashing down, overwhelming the senses.

Why am I so sensitive? I wear my heart on my sleeve and nothing can protect me. Cruelty shows no mercy on the weak of heart. Cruelty creeps in every chance it has and stabs me with its ragged edges. It disguises itself as kindness, even love, only to gain access. Then, swiftly brings out its sword and does away with all of me.

I am numb. I hurt. I can feel it. I can feel the insecurities of despair, but I am numb. I have walked this path too many times. Wretched misery is quite familiar. Although I want no part of it, it always finds me. It's a curse that I do not want to own, but it owns me. Misery, oh sweet sulking misery. You cover the walls of my mind and everything goes black. I have my eyes shut wide open. Inside lives all the turmoil, all the deceit, all the unhappiness, but no one would ever guess. My eyes are wide open. A smile stamped on my face, I walk through life. I trek through the jungles, the mountains and the deserts. I don't waiver for you to see. I hide my dear sweet misery.

One time. Two times, three. There is no one more unlucky than me. I have seen no rainbow. The storm continues to fall and the thunder continues to hit. "Slam! Slam! Whapoosh!" Thunder, striking my bare skin. The water now flowing up my waist. When will the tears stop? When will my heart no longer ache?

A patch of flowers lies ahead. Roses, bountiful to see. The crimson red filling my heart with joy. I draw closer, almost being able to touch the petals. I am afraid for they are so enticingly enchanting. I am there between the roses smelling their sweet scent. I reach for one, carefully, and the wretched creature cuts me. I am bleeding once again. I am in sweet, sweet pain. O, wretched misery, even in the midst of beauty,  you have found me.

Thursday, January 15, 2015

O Dios mio

O Dios mio
Que grande es tu amor por mi. Al darme vida, me dejaste escoger si te amaria. No me puedo imaginar una vida donde mis hijos no me aman. Tu nos diste la opcion de escoger. Cuan grande es tu amor por mi.

O Dios mio
Apesar que tome mi propio rumbo en la vida, cuando te mas necesite alli estuviste. Me levantaste de el abismo y me diste vida una vez mas. Me encenaste el camino hacia la luz y me diste alegria aunque no la merecia.

O Dios mio
Te amo padre mio porque tu eres grande y maravilloso. Miro las flores en un jardin, y alli estas. Miro la sonrisa de mis hijos, y alli estas. Miro el sol de otro dia, y solo a ti doy gracias.  Que infinita es tu misericordia.

O Dios mio
Pongo a la humanidad en tus manos. Es triste ver la avaricia, el celo y el dolor de tus hijos. Como una familia, estamos aquebrantados. Necesitamos de ti mi Senor. Necesitamos tu sabiduria. Necesitamos amarnos el uno a el otro. Necesitamos valorar la vida eterna que nos ofreces y cosechar buen fruto.

O Dios mio
Eres ayer, hoy y para siempre...

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

My Soul Sister

My Dearest,

Remember when we played school, and you swatted me so hard I couldn't breathe? Remember when you threw yourself off a tree higher than your house and yelled, "Wonder Woman!" We were an odd couple to become so close. We fought right before you got married, some 25 years ago. I was scared that you were leaving me. I was scared we would stop being best friends. We stuck it through that time and our friendship became stronger.

I miss you my dearest friend. I have missed you for a long time. It's been about a year since our argument.  You set me straight when you let me know I wasn't your only friend. I never pretended to be your only friend. I loved you like a sister. When your husband hurt you, I wanted to take your pain away. I wanted to erase him from your life. However,  you chose to stay and I respected your decision. I heard you cry, I tried to help, but somehow the pain he caused you drew us apart. I think I was a constant reminder that you were not happy. 

I wrote to you this past Christmas. Every day that passed and you didn't answer was excruciating. I thought, atleast she'll say Merry Christmas.  I never thought much of friends,  because they come and go. However, you were my soul sister, my everything. We had been together, though near or far. I miss you. I really do miss you. I never imagined my life without you. We said we would grow old together, remember? I remember. I remember you and I at Hallmark reading greeting cards together, laughing until our stomachs hurt. Even now over 20 years later, that day brings a smile to my face. We were certifiable, but we spent so many great times together.  I wonder what you are doing now. I wonder how you are. I figured we would be talking soon, and now a year has come and gone. My dearest friend, my dearest sister, I miss you so very much.

Your sister...

Saturday, January 10, 2015

Mi Tesoro

Te amo...
Como un dia ame por primera vez
No pense...
Que olvidaria el dolor que yo pase
Pero ahora...
Me haz dado una nueva razon
Tu amor...
Es tierno y me alienta mi existir
Eres mio...
Lo puedo ver en tus ojos lucir
Soy tuya...
Desde hoy y para siempre lo sere
No se...
Como pude vivir sin ti
No podria...
Ser feliz sin ti a mi lado

Gracias amor mio por cada beso, cada caricia, cada tierno abrazo que me das. Tu amor me ayuda enfrentar este cruel mundo dia a dia. Sin ti soy nadie. Contigo puedo ser yo.

My Delirium

I am going to stray from what I was writing as the inspiration has dwindled to write any further stories about my life.  Perhaps, most likely, I hope I can get back to such writing in the future.  My boyfriend asked me why I have not finished a book up until now.  Simply stated, I don't have the patience and the dedication to stick to one subject, one idea, one topic.  I find it very difficult to write about fiction.  I have said this before and I repeat it.  I tried to write a romantic tragedy only to find that I was writing something not of me, from me.  It felt awkward to try and build a world that did not exist.  Yet, I pick words from the air every day to jot down notes, to put together ideas, to write in this blog.  Yes, I admit, my stories don't always make sense.  Or do they?  Does someone out in this great big world of ours understand exactly what I am trying to say.  Frankly, I don't think so.  You know why? Simply put, I don't even understand myself.  So, how can anybody else understand me.

I am trapped in an abyss of ideas.  I enter my mind and it is as if I have entered an ocean without a life raft.  The ideas go one way and they come at me in a different direction all at once.  Am I confused? No. Yes. Sometimes.  I ask myself why I was born this way.  When I was five-years-old I was thinking about the atomic bomb.  I was thinking that we were going to destroy each other with the atomic bomb.  I cried for all the lives that would be sacrificed including my own.  At five-years-old I thought about the coming of Christ.  I thought about the rapture and whether I would be left behind.  I thought about God and what it meant to be a sinner.  I know not everyone starts thinking about these things at such a young age.  If they did, what a neurotic society we would be.  I believe there are children that have the opportunity to enjoy their childhood.  I am not one of them.  Well, yes at times I enjoyed my childhood while playing marbles on the playground and running around with the boys.  I enjoyed myself while destroying all my siblings special somethings while they were at school.  Always, though, in the back of my mind there was more.  There was always more.  There was this question looming over my head, "Is there more to life than just life?"  The only entity which I believe I could ask such a question is God.  Yes, my God as I see him, as I know him, as I understand him to be.  I can ask him what the purpose is for me.  I can ask him what I am supposed to be doing in this world,  I can ask him how I fit in to the big picture.

after almost four decades of confusion and exclusion from normalcy, I am no closer to the answer then when I was just a child.  My experiences have grown, I have matured with the issues that I have been confronted with in my life.  However, the answer to why I am here has not been answered.  When I die.  When I am in the journey from life to death will I be able to finally understand the purpose of my existence?  Is that when I will be able to understand why I laughed, why I cried, why I hurt, why I was.  Even further, will I be able to understand why others were intertwined with my existence.  Will there be a meaning in all the connections?  I believe I have a soul, and I believe that my soul is directly connected to my brain.  Why?  Only because when my soul is feeling, my brain interprets those feelings.  Or is it my heart?  My heart is only an organ.  It doesn't think.  It doesn't understand.  However, my soul is a living, feeling, breathing creature tied to my brain.  How is that possible?  The idea of a soul is so abstract, yet one must exist because the brain and the heart are merely organs.  Our arms, our legs, our insides are all organs.  Yet there is something within us that is more than an organ.  It is something that cannot be contained in a jar or removed from us through surgery.  It is intangible.

The journey of our soul ends here.  Yes?  I have no clue is the journey of our soul begins, ends or continues here.  My soul is here.  I can not see it.  I can not hold it.  However, how can I ignore it.  It ignites with anger, with love, with jealousy.  Every emotion that you can think of is within me.  My shell, the protection of my soul, is my body.  Depending on my life experiences, my soul forms protections against outside stimuli.  It tells my brain to stay away from certain people, it tells my body to go inside because the weather is too hot.  I have confused myself more in simply writing this blog.  When I come out of this, I will have more questions.  When I have finished writing I will have more doubts.  I should believe that we have a purpose.  I should believe this to be true because I brought three people into this world.  I made a conscious choice to bring three souls into this realm of existence.  I must have passed on some of me to them, because I see the same questions in them that I saw in me.  They are complex individuals who question everything before them.  At times I wish they were more simple-minded because they will suffer as I have suffered.  They will question as I have questioned.  It is my hope that their belief system will be stronger, that they will know what there purpose is in this life.  However, I know quite well that there are no real answers.  There are only guesstimations of what is and what is not.

I will end hear.  My quest was to answer some of the unanswered in my mind.  However, instead I have created more confusion.  See I have these dialogues in my mind all the time.  I just thought if I wrote it down, if I shared it, I would come up with more answers.  Why am I here?  What have I accomplished?  Do I have a purpose?  I can find some sort of answer, but is it the right answer.  "To be or not to be, that is the question?" Who knows the answer?

Eye see

Through your eyes
I see your soul
In the deep
As it weeps