Klokken luiden anders
Nieuwe klokken luiden
onwennig
gehuil van een baby
bij een doopvont
kracht als het water in de zee
nieuw leven
vol dromen
vraagtekens
als een ziel
Blijde klokken luiden
een roep
als vogels `s morgens vroeg
in nevel gehuld
bloemen steeds in andere kleuren
zonnestralen
een gouden loper
jawoord voor het leven
Doffe klokken luiden
dreunen,
als bommen
die vallen op onschuldige mensen
in een nacht zonder sterren
gras op het pad
verandert in donkere aarde
grauw en vol gaten
wolken botsen
vallen uiteen
in een regen van tranen.
Uit: "Gehucht in mijn hoofd"
Verzamelde gedichten van John van Kampen sr.
Waarom gaan de verkeerde mensen dood?
Waarom blijven er zoveel zeikerds leven?
In mijn omgeving weet ik er meer dan zeven
Ach, ik ken er zo een hele sloot.
Waarom gaan de verkeerde mensen dood?
Waarom zit God zich steevast te vergissen?
Hij haalt steeds degenen die ik niet kan missen.
En dat aantal is inmiddels veel te groot.
Youp van ‘t Hek
When you look at the stars at
night, and you see one moving
much faster then all the others
you know who is driving it:
Ayrton Senna
High Flight
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds… and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of... wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ved topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Een grens heeft niet meer waarde dan
een zelf getrokken lijn
ontelbaar zijn de grenzen die er op de wereld zijn
maar de handen van hartstocht omvatten iedereen
en de liefde laat ons voelen over de grenzen heen
een grens is slechts denkbeeldig als
een streep over het land
is zonder hart getrokken door een kil en bang verstand
maar de maan is niet kieskeurig schijnt haar licht op iedereen
en de sterren stralen elke nacht over de grenzen heen
een grens is ingegeven door wat
angst ons zegt
en is alleen van waarde wanneer hij wordt verlegd
want de wind kent geen opstakels hij waait voor iedereen
en blaast zijn lied van liefde over de grenzen heen
Marco Borsato
As long as I can dream,
As long as I can think,
As long as I have a memory.
I will love you.
As long as I have eyes to see
And ears to hear
And lips to speak.
I will love you.
As long as I have a heart to feel,
A soul stirring within me,
An imagination to hold you.
I will love you.
As long as there is time,
As long as there is love,
And as long as I have a breath to speak your name.
I will love you,
Because I love you more than anything in all the world.
Half of me died today.
Why did God take my husband away?
We cherished every moment we had together,
We knew our love would last forever.
Everything I see reminds me of him,
A stabbing pain from deep within.
We were like one person sharing the same life.
How can I be a widow, I'm not doing being his wife.
All of our plans and dreams, gone in a sigh,
Oh, why did such a good man die?
God, if you wanted him now, then please take me.
I can't live without him, set me free.
How can my life go on?
Half of me died today.
Lord I have asked so many times why he had to go.
Now I am left without him and it hurts me so.
I know I will never find these answers that keep naggin at my brain
And filling me with all this hurt and pain.
Until it is my turn to fly back home again
I Am Here
If you could see me now
how happy for me youd be
and jealous too, I know a bit
for I'm forever free
I know you miss me
I feel the hurt and see the tears
and you wonder how you can ever go on
through all the sadness all the fears
what I am hoping for
telling you in gentle whispers
is that I am here
I am with you
I know you now better then I ever did
I can feel the love from the deepest part of your heart
I can see inside your mind and know the love is there
That hasnt died, we will never part
And I am with you
I know you miss holding me
and seeing me
But I can see you so much clearer here
through angels eyes
and you are oh so beautiful, even through your tears
I am here
go quietly into the day and you will feel me
rest your mind and relax your spirit
and you will feel me
Be not afraid to be with me
Be not afraid to feel me
for that is when you will
I am here
Yesterday/Tomorrow
Where is tomorrow.......I can not see it
I can see a thousand yesterdays.........
I see the sun setting again and again yet I cant imagine that it will tomorrow
I see the stars lighting a thousand nights.....
yet I cant imagine tomorrow being anything but dark.
I see your smile as you come through the door
I hear your laughter of a thousand days before
yet I cant imagine that I will hear of that tomorrow because I cant see you today
I remember the peace that once surrounded me,
the safety that I had in knowing that you were with me
I remember the love I felt being held in your arms.....
yet as I gaze upon tomorrow......
I see that it is empty......Where is tomorrow.......
it has somehow gotten mixed up and rolled into yesterday.
That is all I have now is a thousand yesterdays of you and me......
and a thousand kisses that tomorrow will never be.....
a thousand I love yous that will be spoken no more.....
a thousand dreams of tomorrow that are trapped behind yesterdays door.....
Where is tomorrow???? It is yesterday.........
gone before it got here......
over before it started.......
Where is tomorrow......
hinding within my memory of yesterdays
A true friend is a special gift,
no mind how far apart the drift.
The space between may be so wide,
your paths may ne'er again collide,
but once you find an real true friend,
it's evermore, it has no end.
~~~ I am your friend, until the end. ~~~
A HEART AS PURE AS SUNSHINE
A SMILE THAT TOUCHES THE SOUL
A DEEP APPRECIATION OF GOD'S GREEN EARTH
A LOVE AND COURAGE THAT NEVER GROW COLD
AND THOUGH YOU ARE IN HEAVEN NOW
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS
AND I PRAY SOMEDAY WE'LL BE WITH YOU THERE
AND NEVER AGAIN BE APART
Time is too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice.
But for those who love, Time is not.
Memories
They say Memories are golden;
Well, maybe that is true.
I never wanted memories
I only wanted you.
A million times I needed you,
A million times I cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
In life I loved you dearly.
In death I love you still,
In my heart you hold a place
No one could ever fill.
If tears could build a stairway
And heartache make a lane,
I'd walk a path to heaven
And bring you back again.
Our chain is broken,
And nothing seems the same.
But as God calls us one by one,
The chain will link again.
~~ Author unknown ~~
