raymond's blog

Just to be me...

"If I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't.

I think that this is the most important choice
that any of us can make in life, in art, in history;
to do the thing you love.

If you love it then while you are doing it
you are a true expresison of yourself
and your time and your story. You are authentic."

My Beautiful Angel

You are to me
All that an angel could be
My love for you
Is here for all the world to see

The gleam in your eyes
Is what keeps me alive
You are the vision of beauty
I see in front of me
The minor sound of your sweet voice
Is enough to make my heart rejoice

You're an Angel to me
The most beautiful person
This world shall ever see

A special place in my heart
I shall forever have for thee
You are my love
You are my world
You are this Beautiful Angel to me

A Copy of My Poem

I can write no stately proem
As a prelude to my lay;
From a poet to a poem
I would dare to say.

For if of these fallen petals
One to you seem fair,
Love will waft it till it settles
On your hair.

And when wind and winter harden
All the loveless land,
It will whisper of the garden,
You will understand.

If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine

Photograph

Yesterday I felt the wind blowing 'round my shoulder
Feel like I'm getting older
Still I can't forget your face

Separated by a million miles of ocean
My heart still feels emotion
Even in this lonely place

Old photographs and places I remember
Just like a dying ember
That's burned into my soul
Even though we walk the diamond-studded highways
It's the country lanes and byways
That makes us long for home

Lately I just find my mind has turned to dreamin'
Making plans and scheming
How I'm gonna get back home

But deep down inside I know its really hopeless
This road I'm on is endless
We climb our mountains all alone...

One More Chance

You say it’s over
I say we’ve just begun
‘Coz it ain’t forever
Until our lives are done
I know I did some things
That I never should
I’d undo them if I could
I’d turn my life around for you
Anything you’d ask me to…
Just tell me…

What must I do to make you want to stay
And take the hurt away
And leave it all to yesterday?
What can I say to make you change your mind?
To have the chance to turn the hands of time
Back to the days when you were mine?
Just give one more chance for one last time.

I won’t deny it
I know that I’ve done wrong
But you have to admit it
This love is just too strong
To just fade away into the night
Without putting up a fight
We can make it all alright
If we just give it on more try…
So…

What must I do to make you want to stay
And take the hurt away
And leave it all to yesterday?
What can i say to make you change your mind?
To have the chance to turn the hands of time
Back to the days when you were mine?
Just give one more chance for one last time…

And what can i say to make you change your mind
To have the chance to turn the hands of time
Back to the days when you were mine?
Just give one more chance for one last time.
Just one more kiss to last a lifetime
One more chance for ono last time.

You say it’s over
I say we’ve just begun
‘Coz it ain’t forever
Until our lives are done
I know I did some things
That I never should
I’d undo them if I could
I’d turn my life around for you
Anything you’d ask me to…
Just tell me…

What must I do to make you want to stay
And take the hurt away
And leave it all to yesterday?
What can I say to make you change your mind?
To have the chance to turn the hands of time
Back to the days when you were mine?
Just give one more chance for one last time.

I won’t deny it
I know that I’ve done wrong
But you have to admit it
This love is just too strong
To just fade away into the night
Without putting up a fight
We can make it all alright
If we just give it on more try…
So…

What must I do to make you want to stay
And take the hurt away
And leave it all to yesterday?
What can i say to make you change your mind?
To have the chance to turn the hands of time
Back to the days when you were mine?
Just give one more chance for one last time…

And what can i say to make you change your mind
To have the chance to turn the hands of time
Back to the days when you were mine?
Just give one more chance for one last time.
Just one more kiss to last a lifetime
One more chance for ono last time.

Wish I Could

I wonder where you are right now
Wish I could see you somehow
Can't seem to ease the pain
Since you've been gone nothing's been the same
How I wish you could've stayed awhile
How I wish that I could see you smile for me

Wish I could hold you in my arms
Keep you safe and keep you warm
But now all I can do
Is hope and long for you
You're in my mind every night and day
Wishing you're part of me in every way
'Coz all I wanted to do was to always be there for you
Wish that I could tell you just how much I love you

I guess I should not fear
'Coz I know God can hear (I know)
And He's telling me you're alright
And there's no need to worry
Oh my baby, I am so sorry (so sorry)
If I had known, maybe you could've been here with me

Wish I could hold you in my arms
Keep you safe and keep you warm
But now all I can do
Is hope and long for you, you, you, you
You're in my mind every night and day
Wishing you're part of me in every way
'Coz all I wanted to do was to always be there for you

How I wish I could hold you in my arms
Keep you safe and keep you warm
But now all I can do
Is hope and long for you
You're in my mind every night and day
Wishing you're part of me in every way
'Coz all I wanted to do (I wanted to do)
Was to always be there for you
Wish that I could tell you just how much I love you

(Wish I could)
Wish that I could tell you...that I love you