Post #22 Poem for a Friend

This is quite an unusual post, albeit a really long one.
But I wrote this for a good friend of mine.

I hope you should enjoy this too! =)

Hear the mind of this girl who writes,

As she who seeks to convey her words,

As she wishes to shed those blue-tinged lights,

On this careful prose with what knowledge affords :

Scarce in life should our paths cross,

With one who shares our stream of thoughts,

Neither can fathom on what sparks the cause,

And yet here they walk to bridge our dots.

Precisely you come to draw the lines,

Altering the chapters of where I would be,

Perhaps these be marked in special signs,

So should I not forget what those meant to me.

It truly has been a well-traveled trip,

Through a worthy year of classics and clashes,

Exchanges that wring a clever quip,

And convictions that come in spicy bashes.

To you I remain in gratitude,

For simply being honest and true,

For respecting where you shouldn't intrude,

And for sticking with me through and through.

So if ever you should ask a favor of me,

So I would gladly do at the count of three.

--A.K.O.L

Quote #21 What A Woman Should Distinguish

A woman would be much better off if she could distinguish the difference

between a man who flatters her,
and a man who compliments her;
a man who spends money on her,
and a man who invests in her;
 a man who views her as property,
and a man who views her properly;
 a man who lusts after her,
and a man who loves her;
a man who believes he is God’s gift to women,
and a man who remembers a woman was God’s gift to man.

-Kris Vallotton