You were well-known for your great smile
your warm welcome to everyone you met.
You let people into your life with so much ease
no judgement just open arms.
Your smile is always the first thing someone sees
there is no moment where you have to fake your smile to get by.
If your happy everyone can see but when your down there is no hiding it.
I hope your smile will always be the most and genuinely thing about you.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
seems to not be on my side right now
every time I seem to try to get something
done I run out of time.
I’m trying to accept the little bit of time I have
but it is not enough for me and the struggle is
rough and I’m not sure I will accomplish all the things
this week demands of me.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Your comedy wasn’t as funny as I thought it would be
I felt it was more cruel than entertaining.
The things that came out your mouth was so hard to hear
and listen too.
I wasn’t the only one shocked and horrified as the night went on
it didn’t get better.
And so I walked out and tried to forget about the things that hurt my ears all night.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
A minute so we can talk
I swear it won’t take long.
For I know you have somewhere to be
and I don’t want to waste your time.
But, the minute I open my mouth I see a light go on  in your eyes and I know this time you will listen.
As a minute turns into five because I’m no longer talking but you are and it’s like finally everything clicks again.
Were connected to the point that life doesn’t seem to bad.
And just maybe this time things will stick and not fall apart so quickly.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
Things are rocky
as we stand here
talking it out.
Only to feel like
everything is about
to go over this tall cliff.
Years of friendship just
going over and crashing
and burning.
And there is nothing you or I can do
about it at this time.
All there is left to do is looking over the
cliff and seeing all the pieces that used to
connect us together and feeling sad and at peace
at the same time.
For this is an ending to something that was great and
a beginning to something so much better for both of us.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
and this time I can’t seem to save you
I try to call out to you but yet you just
don’t seem to want to listen to me anymore.
You’ve made your mess and now your laying it
maybe one day you will wake up and realize you need
help.
And hopefully I will be one of the calls you make
for my hand is always out to help you get through
life lessons.
Especially the one’s you just can’t seem to do on your own.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
An uneasy feeling rolls through me as I see you
pacing back and forth through the hall that day.
I didn’t know if you were delivering bad news that day
but I almost turned around and ran the other way.
For I had a long day and I didn’t want or need any news
that was hard for me to hear right now.
But, I knew it would be wrong of me if I didn’t find out what was
going on.
So I walked toward you with so much cautions that I didn’t see the smile
on your face.
Even though I was walking right towards you it’s like I didn’t see the truth for I already had expect and accepted the worst.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
this path we both try to walk on
won’t be there anymore.
And maybe we will both find a path
that is right for us and even though we
won’t be as close anymore.
I hope that where ever we end up in life
we will cherish the moments that made us
who we are.
And remember the moments we grew together
and the bond we had will never be forgotten.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
You wanted to work together to create something more than
what you could do on your own.
You write and they write until there is nothing left on t he table
but too hearts intertwined making a story become more than just a book
to read and move on from when your done.
It becomes something you remember as you listen to a song and the story
unfolds right in front of you again.
Like you never stopped reading that book and it makes you happy that two authors got together and wrote something that made you go through so many emotions in one day.
Collaborations can be such a wonderful thing and Look forward to read more of them.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
so hard to not let your words get to me
but the harshness of each of your words is slamming into me
breaking the wall that protected me for so long.
It used to be you and me against the world and now it’s just me
fighting to keep the balance in my world.
I didn’t think about my future and now as I live in the present
I realize there are things in my future that will be different and I have
to accept this change that is now apart of my life.
There is no going back now and I don’t know if I would at this point for
what is done is done.
Written By: Deirdre Stokes
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