Won’t you love me like you used to do
Whisper my name and say I love you
Bring me flowers for no reason at all
Talk to me sexy, when you call
Gaze into my eyes ,once more
Walking over and locking our door
Lay me gently on the bed
Caress my skin from toe to head
Can’t you see I’m missing you
Everything you say and do?
Terry Shepherd
January 2016
Daily Prompt; A Friend in Need
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My very best friend. It sounds nice when I say it. I am truly blessed to have that one special person who has been there for me, and I know I try very hard to be there for her. She and I met over 35 years ago.
My mother worked at a place that needed a job. I told mom about my friend in need of a job. Magic happened and I started watching my her kids while she worked. Our friendship blossomed from that point forward.
We have never been like twins thinking alike, but we seemed to connect. We could feel what the other was thinking before it was even voiced. We became the best of friends in no time at all.
She and I used to live in the same city. She had marriage problems and I hope that I helped her through it.
When it came to me and my marriage became bad enough to cause me physical and emotional damages, I had her to lean on. Our kids are nearly the same ages.
Today she lives a couple of hours a way. When she first moved I didn’t know how I was going to live without her but through time I came to accept that she did what was best for her.
We stay in touch quite a bit. Late-night phone calls. I am the one who never wants to hang up. I keep telling her I will say goodbye but fifteen minutes later I am still chattering a way.
We text each other. We meet and go to lunches and antiquing together. She is a very talented woman. She is so talented with her voice. She is a brilliant artist. She has made some wonderful creations out of card making.
When I visit her house it is not her that I heal. It is me that heals from being around her. Surrounded by someone who loves me for who I am. I don’t think in our 35 years of friendship we have ever fought. We had one disagreement that ripped us apart at the seam, but we managed to sew it back up.
I was afraid from that one time that our relationship would never be the same, but in my eyes, it is better than ever.
She is my rock. She always has been. 
She means more to me in life than I mean to myself. I don’t know what I would do without her.
We all need someone special to call our own. We can have many friends and then we have close friends; but that very special, close friend is a gift from God and I will always treasure her.
Thank-you L.S. for being the best ever.
Daily Prompt; Party Animals
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After spending time with a group of people, do you feel energized and ready for anything or do you want to hide in the corner with a good book?
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I don’t know if it is because I am no longer in the social rings, but then again that is a silly statement. I have never been in the social rings. I guess I am thinking about when I used to pick up the keys, get in my car and run to Wal-Mart or maybe go see my girlfriend a couple of hours a way.
When I was a teen, I didn’t have too many girlfriends. They were the cat’s claws more often than not.
I had quite a few guy friends and they were less into my business and yet so much fun to hang with.
Now that I am older I can even look back to when I was a young mother. I still only had one or two friends and my family and my extended family were my friends.
Today I still have one or two close friends. I guess I have remained who I always have been. Yet there are subtle changes I see in me. I don’t like crowds of any kind. Whether it be a beautiful wedding
, or a graduation,
most likely the only way you will see that I was there is when you recognize the hand-writing and the signature on the gift inside the card.
It just makes me so nervous to be in too big of space with too many heads bobbing up and down walking and mingling.
It makes me think back in my life when I went through big-time panic attacks. My eyes would bug out. I thought I was going to lose touch with reality.
All I wanted to do is race somewhere, anywhere, just escape the crowd.
If I am forced out of guilt to attend a very special function, I latch on like a frog’s tongue to one person, two at the most.
I would hang with them and watch the clock to see what time it was so I could make a respectable escape.
Once out of the situation I would grab my smokes and inhale deeply and breathe a sigh of relief that the nightmare was over for me.
I guess this means that I like being home most of the time better. A couple of good friends does me well, and I can dress casual, shorts and Tees. Yep friends, I am definitely not a party animal.
No books, no TV, no extra energy, just give me a bed because by now I need a nice, long nap.
Daily Prompt; Unconventional Love
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Over the weekend, we explored different ways to love. Today, tell us about the most unconventional love in your life.
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In my generation it was common to grow up and plan on getting married and having some kids. Moms worked some but for the most part they still worked more inside the home instead of outside for someone else.
The conventional love. The one everyone followed suit on. Even people who weren’t crazy about being married, got married because it was the right thing to do. Not uncommon in some countries but very unlikely here where I live was the arranged marriage.
You had your spouse chosen for you. A lot of figuring and planning went into those marriages. Many times they didn’t love each other, let alone know enough to be saying I do. Can you imagine what that was like letting someone bed you at night and you had no deep feelings for them. I can imagine that they grew to love each other, or they suffered their own hell.
Love and marriage has advanced so much today. People can love each other for a one night stand. Even say the words without feeling them for the passion of a fleeting moment. Some are infatuated with thinking the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. They will fantasize about another married person, thinking if I was only married to them.
Others waste so much of their life by living a dream, hoping that one day that person will be come available, only to end up an old spinster, all alone.
I did the common thing. I married fresh out of high school. It lasted for several years and a lot of the years were good. But we are thrown rocks and feelings change. We become more mature and our needs and desires change.
Sometimes this leads to divorce or cheating for some. Others suffer through the relationship for the sake of the children.
I ended up being divorced, and married a second time, which was even a bigger mistake on my part. Now I define love totally different from when I was in my twenties.
I have room for many types of love. I love my kids. I love watching the birds and feeding the squirrels. I love my brother. I love caring for others. I love knowing that I made someone’s day special.
I would love to see a man come driving through in his car and pick me up. I have given up on the knight and shining armor on a white horse. That is fairy tale to me now a days. Now I think I can love someone for who they are. What they bring to my life, how I add to theirs. Sharing some laughs and tears a good cooked meal or movie; is something I can love unconventionally.
I have learned I don’t have to follow that yellow brick road. I can be myself and learn to let my feelings lead me. Accepting ourselves for who we are is a major thing to do today. Not feeling like I have to be like everyone else is a big thing that took me years to learn.
Can I learn to love unconventionally? Yes, I think I can, and I have in many ways
Daily Prompt; I Want to Know What Love is
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We each have many types of love relationships — parents,
children, spouses, friends. And they’re not always with people; you may
love an animal, or a place. Is there a single idea or definition that
runs through all the varieties of “love”?
Love is a feeling
A flutter
A pitter patter
That you feel
Deep inside
Your heart
And soul
Love makes
You smile
Your tears fall
Your heart melts
Love means
Never wanting
To part, be
Separated
From the idea
Of what draws
You close to
The name
When you hear it
Or touch it
When you wrap
Your arms around it
This is love
That you never
Want to disappear
Terry Shepherd
05/11/2013
Who I am 