Thank you Roe, I know you have your niece you look forward too to pinch...and they do possess a quality about them that you do just wanna pinch their cheek and/or tickle them just to hear their laugh...

Thanks mystique, glad you liked it..

Thanks for the daisies Susan my dear...I knew you would like it.

Thank you Micky my dear...depending on the size of the hourglass too. A little timer one, noooo...one like the Wicked Witch had in The Wizard of Oz, now that's the one to have. When you flip it over, it would be neat if the sand that falls, builds a foundation for your future.

Thank you all for your wonderful comments. This is not really a poem based upon what happened to me, but something I feel that everyone has inside of them. Yes, I suffered the pain and hurt, as we all have at one point or another. And it is difficult to go out there trusting and believing in love again.

Thank you Mickey, Susan, Roe, Jason, Artistic and Tazzy...ya'll are great and wish the best for us all.

Glad you liked it Kristi...

Good question...hopefully with the right words and emotions, they dissolve.

So true Kristi..and if we can break down those barriers around our hearts or someone else's, then we have gained a lot of ground.

Awwww Nicki, I feel like that with my own daughter...I get an invitation to be a guest instead of the one to walk her down the aisle. My heart was broke, but I will survive.

I don't know about a hyena now...and I am with you..as long as they are someone else's and they take them back, I am fine. But if they are older and we get along, I will be there as if they were my own.

The eyes of the wolf can see through many souls...hence the name.

<<<<Eagle claws...that made my day.

Thanks Suze and Cat...Neosporin was already taken...

And I got into yours, knowing these are the feelings you feel. One of many...

Thank you Nicki sweetie...yours does me too. Glad you liked it.

Thanks Erica...I knew you would like it as well.

Thank you flame and Erica...true but sad.

Nooooooooo....Don't want anymore, but I do love little ones. They are so precious. They do have a contagious laugh.

That was a beautiful comment Kristi..thank you so much. Glad you liked this one.

Let Me Be Your Ointment

When you are suffering from pain
And the feeling hurts so bad,
Let me be your ointment, my dear
To heal what you have.
If you suffer a broken heart
Or misery from the split,
Let me be the rope that pulls you
From that bottomless pit.

If you need rescued from drowning
In the tears of your sorrow,
Let me be your soothsayer
So you can see tomorrow.
But if you have a cut or scrape
These I cannot heal,
But I will do the best I can
With your heart, I steal.

The Hurt Again

When you've been in love
As deep in love as I have been,
You know your heart is shattered
You've lost your best friend.
No one else in the world mattered
For you were the one for me,
How in hell do I go on
With a love that used to be?

I don't want the hurt again
The pain of falling in love,
Where I give all I can give
And all that I'm made of.
If ever I fall in love again
Which will be hard to do,
I don't want another hurt again
Like the one I had with you.

If that special someone does find
A way to get into my heart,
Will I be afraid to fall in love
Just so my world will fall apart?
The anguish and the tears do come
Because I want to feel love again,
But the fear of a shattered heart
And the fear of losing a friend.

Marriages that failed in life
Of which I thought were true,
Now I look upon my future
And wonder what I need to do.
I don't want to feel the hurt again
Will love ever lay upon this heart?
Without the damaging effects
That would tear my world apart?

Watching The Sands Of Time

I flip the hourglass over
For the umpteenth time today,
Missing you in my heart
Are you coming back to stay?
Watching the sands fall downward
As the time passes by,
Missing you is so hard
This, I won't deny.

Thinking of how we were
The day you left my side,
Someone I thought I knew
And to whom I could confide.
But there is a missing piece
That you stole from my heart,
The love I have for you
The love I thought, would never part.

This is the part of me
That misses you the most,
My love for you stretches
From coast to coast.
Will you come back to me?
Will you ever want to be mine?
While I sit her watching
The depleting sands of time.

Cute Little Babies

Were you born under a cabbage patch
Or did the stork bring you here,
Entering into this unknown world
Without so much a fear.
Oh you little boys and girls
With your cute little button noses,
Your contagious joys of laughter
As your mama composes.

That toothless little smile
And those bright shining eyes,
It is plain to see
You were no surprise.
Mama and daddy
Wanted a little bundle of joy,
Now they are truly blessed
With a little girl or boy.