A woman, like you.

Few people can bring you from self made hell. When a sweet woman offer a soft hand and love. Even the dead can be rebirth.

                      
      A woman, like you

I was standing at a distance listening to you.

You were  speaking against hate and violence.

A voice so soft and kind.

It made me  stop to listen.

I looked at your beautiful face.

I tries to hide my desire for you.

To be able to look into your eyes.

And hold you close.

I make a fool's wish to be sitting with you.

To be able to look into your  blue eyes at the ocean.

Listen to you talk about great dreams.

You spoke with confident.

Your  strong words were against hate and war.

Your smile and sweet voice create dreams and hope of peace

for the people listening.

You came to me. Whispered

" My lonely poet you came to hear me at the  demonstration.

Did you like and understand what I was trying to say."

I told you. "Your words were logical and common sense. I felt hope listening to your

voice. Sometime all we have is hope and dreams."

A sad smile overtook you.

You told me. "When the dreamers forget to dream. The people with strong hearts

forget to love. The kind and generous people forget to help. What will we become?

Just robots waiting for death."

You wrapped your arms around me.

Gave me sweet kisses and pulled away.

You whisper "later my love."

I stood alone at the Santa Cruz beach.

Thank the lord of life and death for a woman like you.

Bad dreams and wrong decisions led me to Santa Cruz on a sunny California day.

I was drinking and wasting my life.

You found me at a coffee shop on a cool spring day.

 You  sat at my table and asked me "What was I writing?

I told you poetry of a sort .

I gave you my journal to read .

I watched your eyes read my words for two hours.

You put the book down.

Told me "You are a poet my friend. Pain and sorrow are in your words.

Scream for calm and peace in your words. You must get published. Words of

love and peace must be poster for all to see."

Your beautiful blue eyes stole my heart from the first moment.

Listening  to your dream and goals.

As we walk through the Santa Cruz street.

You took my hand.You whispered. " I need  a friend and I can feel your loneliness."

With the gift of a sweet kiss we bounded our two lives together.

As the sun fell into the sea.

You asked me to share your dreams

and not be afraid to stand against things wrong in this world.

I give a silence yes.

I know Angels are rare in a life.

I told you as long as you need me I will be there for you.

A woman, like you.

Can light up the night and day

and create dreams in a dead soul.

                                  Coyote 

                         1994

Author's Note

A old poem. Was a gift for a Santa Cruz friend who taught me to leave the B.S behind and live for the coming day. Not the pain of yesterday.

Reviews

[Katie]

I trie(d) to hide my desire for you.

You spoke with confiden(ce).

Sometime(s) all we have is hope and dreams.

poste(d) for all to see.

I give a silen(t) yes.

Once again, a lot less grammar mistakes then you used to have. Excellent work. This is a very nice poem, well done!

[Chirinos20]

"I know Angels are rare in a life", "A woman, like you.
Can light up the night and day and create dreams in a dead soul."

The poem as a whole is great but this lines I like the most!

[Lily Mae]

This melted my heart. What romance and beauty. It was like watching a flower opening up its petals one by one :)

[beautiful disaster]

This made me cry it was excellent

[Alicia™]

Such a great poem, and I love the message. I absolutely agree with you that we should live for the coming day and not the pain of yesterday (oh hey, that rhymes).

[JENY]

True love gives all.
It is very true…..
Enjoyed the poem…so much…

[Cocoacandy]

wow... very strong write.. good work hun... keep it up... only thing i would say is, watch ur grammar... i saw a few mistakes here and there...
*cocoabean*

[J.Black]

Well, you wrote this when I was only 3 years old- but I'm glad you wrote it and I'm glad I'm alive to read it. What I like best is how you keep everything of yours pure, real and raw which is a perfect combination for romance. There is nothing like love, and people don't always seem to realize it is usually starting back at them.. in one form or another. Sometimes, love is just in a friend letting you know there is always tomorrow to see the sun rise again. Well done.

[Magdelena]

Like OMG!!! This made me tear up and as i read the tears just flowed, and know what? I let them! This was absolutely divine.. It held the purist of images, the greatest of words and the brightest of wisdom, for you are all that Coyote, a poet, a friend, and a blessing to us all.

Your words shine like beacon of stars upon us always.

Mags xx

[Sweets]

This is so romantic and sweet !
I loved this!
great work!

[littlelilypurplebride]

very romantic powefully said write Angels can come to us in a friend or a family memeber one in my life i was her angel and she is mine the Lord brought us both togther we call eachother sis it's like having a little sister and in being friends brought her to God and i found my way back to him and shared what i knew and wisdom so we helped eachother so he brought us together for a reason listening to our hearts in him doing so he knew my spirit was longing for him and was lost and was crying out in pain was lost in confused as was she but she wasn't Taught some of the things i was so i taught her what Knowledge God and my family taught me i was being a big sister sometimes God puts some one on our path for that reason he was trying to draw us back to him that was written within my heart all i was doing wasn't any thing i knew it was like a strange Lanuage and it frightened me and he just scouped me up into his arms and my friends and hasn't let go this poem you wrote touched my heart thank you for sharing and if i am crying it's happy tears.



these lines stuck with me beautiful.

I make a fool's wish to be sitting with you.

To be able to look into your blue eyes at the ocean.

Listen to you talk about great dreams.


Thank you for your lovely review . God bless lily