Poems For My Sweetie
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For Sharon: The Wisdom That Comes With Unconditional Love – After sixty years on this planet, a myriad of traumatic events and occasional glimpses of notoriety predicated on images and structured text, I still couldn’t find the elusive goal in life, i.e., the love that makes one’s heart go pitter – patter. On a whim in 2007, I met the most endearing, kind, attractive and charming woman on the planet and in a fleeting moment, realized that there is a God and his way of compensation for a life of pain was allowing me to find the gift of a lifetime. I drug my feet for nine months with occasional lectures with my friend Tom Constanten of The Grateful Dead and periodic substitute teaching while Sharon worked lengthy hours in the operating room at local hospitals. How silly of me to base a future on useless rhetoric and shallow promises when I have all I will ever need from a woman of given magnitude and a great heart. My name is etched in the annals of contemporary rock n’ roll and images have adorned several museums and galleries across the land but in the large scheme of things, who cares? It’s just “stuff” and hardly worth pondering over when I have the gift of a lifetime to cherish and hold on a daily basis. She always alludes to my goals, my priorities and aspirations and bless her heart but……my goals are to see that she is loved, adored and cherished for eternity and there is nothing more important to me than that. So…if you see me at some event in metropolitan Louisville, Lexington, Cincinnati or perhaps Indianapolis, feel free to say hello and chat about The Golden Age and those who made a difference but the greatest difference for me was and will always be Sharon Brown. She inspires me to be a better person, to excel at what I do well so, I will embark on teaching for the rest of my life with occasional journeys to selected performances that My Darling would enjoy but without her along, I feel no great need to venture away from home and leave her when I can simply hold her and feel the wonder of unconditional love of the greatest treasure on this planet. A new haircut, new attitude, a healthy woman of my dreams and to grow old with the greatest gift ever bestowed on a person, it doesn’t get any better than that. She exudes the charm and charisma of a Hollywood actress yet, her heart is that of goodness and caring…….For those who never saw the virtues of loving her, thank you for allowing me to find her. I will forever be thankful to God and to Sharon…..a simple dream of just wanting to love and be loved by her has reached fruition and as I await her return home….there is no greater joy than holding her and telling her what she means to me… I weep while she is gone, only because I miss her with all my heart but, she will be back soon and my dedication to her will forever be etched in pantheons of time as I will love and cherish her for eternity…as it should be. A wake-up call when she was ill tells me that six decades of a somewhat traumatic life was a road well traveled to end up in love with such a precious woman…. It is a sojourn I would do again if I knew she was at the end of that journey……. To announce how lucky I am is so trite in terms of text but it is a joy that I wish on all of you…… She is “My Darling” and I intend to dote over her and tell her how lucky I am and how much I love her for eternity………………… John Fogerty once wrote a tune for his wife….”The Joy Of My Life”……..he must have had me in mind when written… For you Sharon…I love you now……I will love you always…………. Cheers Don |
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