Poems From the Heart

Here are some poems I have written throughout the years; hope you enjoy.

Your Angel

Let me be your angel now.

Let me show you a new way of seeing things.

You might think you have seen it all,

But its never too late to experience something new.

Let me be that new experience for you.

Let me show you what we can do.

You're not the only one that's changing.

Everyday, I'm growing, I'm growing with you.

Let me be your angel now.

Everything that has happened before I met you

were trials and tribulations.  A bitter pill to swallow

in preparation for what I am to live with you.

So that I can appreciate the special person that 

you are and the meaning and purpose you  have 

brought to my life.  Let me be your angel now, for

I know when the time comes, you  will become my Hero.

Written By Gladys Echevarria Rivera; 01/20/09.

Cherished

Compliments are not my thing.  I need to do better.

I may not wear your wedding ring.  But the feeling is the same.

Just know that you are cherished.

I see the changes in you.  I might not voice it, but I do notice.

You are not the same person I got in that car with, the day I met you.

The real you is coming through.

Just know that you are cherished.

I love the person that you are.  We laugh so hard.  We fight harder.

We compliment each other.

Just know that you are cherished.

And when you think you've had enough and you feel that your efforts 

are not appreciated and the thought of leaving crosses your mind.

Don't give in.

Just remember that I love you and you are cherished.

Written By Gladys Echevarria Rivera; 01/10/09.

B r o k e n

How can you break something that is already broken?

You can't. All it can do is gather its pieces and forge

itself into something stronger.  Something impenetrable.

That is what I have become.  Can I still feel love?  Yes.

Can I still give love?  Yes.

But will I let that love break me?  No.

That can never happen again.  That will never happen again.

Now the question is, are you strong enough to stand by me? 

Are you strong enough to let me be?

Are you wise enough to know the changes have very little to 

do with you?  And more with me?

How I need to make adjustments to let you in.

And somehow break free.  Without losing myself.

Without losing you.

Written By Gladys Echevarria Rivera; 01/07/09.

Since the Beginning

I kept hearing you say that I wasn't your girl.

But you brought me home and never let go.

Ground rules were established and codes of conduct expected.

But love has a way of making you see things differently,

and boundaries were washed away quickly.

We knew we were in love since the beginning.

You tested the waters and went out with another.

I know you were thinking of me while you spoke with her.

And at the end of that night, when you saw that I was not 

in your sight, you realized that something just wasn't right.

That something wonderful was happening.

You must of have been confused with the feelings you felt

and thought to yourself, "This is too soon."

You see, we knew we were in love since he beginning.

With everyday that passes we find a new dimension to ourselves,

a new bonding.  We are learning to talk to each other and with 

each conversation we are merging our separate lives into our life together.

The time will come when words will not be necessary anymore.

When a look or a mood or a gesture will tell us how the other is feeling.

There will be no limit to our dreams.  As long as we act as one.

There will be endless possibilities.

Because, you see, we knew we were in love since the beginning.

Written By Gladys Echevarria Rivera; 01/11/09.

Ever Since I Met You

Don't you Realize that Ever since I met you,

I have done Everything with You in mind?

My house has been prepared for You,

for Your Comfort.  Adding your Personal touches

so You can feel at Home with Me.

I Dream of a day when There will be no More doubts

or Secrets between Us.  No More fear or Remorse or

Misunderstandings.

Don't You Understand that When I met You,

I met my Soul Mate?  That for the first Time

in My Life, I feel true Happiness is finally

within My reach?  That all the suffering and

Madness of my Past is just that, The Past?

Don't You Understand that I now fell Loved?

That You are the Bearer of that Love?

Written By Gladys Echevarria Rivera; 01/05/09.

How I Know

There Comes a Time in Everyone's life

when You find Yourself at a Crossroads

and you wonder "How did I get here?"

And you look at a Path which is unknown

yet enticing and your heart starts to quicken,

and another step is taken.  And you wonder

"Where am I going?"

And You think of all the Loves you've had

and the Ones you wished you had and you

wonder "Why am I here?"

You Feel there's another Person out there, Searching, just for You.  You Hope beyond

Reason, and Pray against all Odds that somehow, somewhere that person truly

exists.  Then suddenly Without any warning, that Crossroads, that Path, that Love,

that Life you have led, Converge, and brings you to Him/Her.

Written By Gladys Echevarria Rivera; 12/23/08.

How to Survive Men and Sports

Ladies, what do you do when the most important men in your life are MIA (Missing In Action), not due to any military operation gone wrong but by the commencement of Major League training schedules, NFL drafting speculations, NBA trade offs or even, God forbid, college bound fresh faced high schoolers who show some talent with a ball?   This has been the thorn on the side of many relationships since the beginning of dawn when a bored caveman started kicking a rock around while his mate was busy making a cauldron full of supper.

That's the time when us females need to make some decisions.  We either get with the program, learn the lingo, the stats and the game and sit and relish in the competition that is big time sports.  Or we gracefully, prepare the field for our loved ones, making sure they have all supplies necessary that will allow them to vegetate in front of a television for hours at a time and forgo life as we know it.

I have had the luxury of being able to go either way.  I was raised in a household of seven boys, so the idea of spending time watching, discussing or playing any sport is second nature to me.  So, I can either engage or disengage and find some other activity more fitting to the mood I happen to be in.   Which in my world makes me pretty flexible and an interesting creature, if you asked me.   If you asked my boyfriend Scott, he would probably just say, I'm complicated.  And that's ok too. 

So, my advice to women who do not find sports appealing or even remotely interesting, embrace your choices.  But do know that you have choices.  Plan a girls' night out.  Start reading an interesting book.  Hell, call your mother, you know its been a long time.  There are plenty of ways to survive the abandonment that is the losing of our men to that evil institution called the sports media world!!!