The touching of my heart

Many have touched my life

Some gentle, some unkind.

Some of them brought great strife

Some also touched my mind.

My parents were the first to care

Brother and sisters too.

They touched me and love did share,

But there was sadness too.

To a schoolmaster I must give a nod

A special interest he did take

He guided me on new paths to trod

My destiny he did shape.

There were childhood friends,

Grown up ones too

There were sweetheart friends

Some I thought were true .

The love I sought so hard to find

For me was not to be

Life I found can be so unkind

Children the only legacy

My children came into my life

What a wonder to behold

As I gazed upon each new-born life

Each more precious than gold.

What a joy it was to love them

And protect them from all fears

To hug them and care for them

And wipe away their tears.

And then into my life you came

And love was found at last

This would not be the same

As anything in the past.

This love has stood the test of time

Through good times and through bad

I thank you for those good times

I also thank you for the bad.

We need bad times to show we care

Enough to stick around

That in the good we are more aware

Of the love that we have found.

I thank you for your kindness

And the good times we have shared

No need to show love’s blindness

We know true love is shared.

I thank you for those little talks

In which we both delight

I thank you for the twilight walks

As the moon shines down so bright.

I thank you for the knowledge too

That we will never part,

But most of all I thank you

For the touching of my heart.

P.J. McCormick

Copyright Mar 16^th 2005
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