Merry Christmas

Christmas is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future.

Merry Christmas

 and

Happy New Year

Slowly fade away

And I watch with a breaking heart as you slowly fade away.

 I find myself straining to remember everything about those moments,

 everything about you.

 But soon, always too soon,

 your image vanishes and the fog rolls back to its far away place

 and I am alone again

 and I do not care what others think

 as I bow my head and cry

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Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

 What you have caught on film is captured forever...

 it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

-Aaron Siskind-

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Notice me...

Notice me, take my hand

Why are we strangers..

Everytime I try to fly, I fall

Without my wings, I feel so small

I guess I need you

And everytime I see you in my dreams

I see your face, it's haunting me

I guess I need you

At night I pray

That soon your face will fade away

All I want...

for Christmas is

peace of mind

 peace of heart

 and peace of soul



Christmas

Remember,
 if Christmas isn't found in your heart,
 you won't find it under a tree...

Silence

 I don't hear a sound

But my own voice

Silence

A Shattered Dream

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed...

It feels an impulsion...this is the place to go now.

 But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds,

 and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons

-Richard Bach-

 

The true dream

Maybe we accept the dream has become a nightmare.
 We tell ourselves that reality is better.
 We convince ourselves it's better that we never dream at all.
But, the strongest of us, the most determined of us, holds on to the dream or we find ourselves faced
with a fresh dream we never considered.
 We wake to find ourselves, against all odds, feeling hopeful.
And, if we're lucky, we realize in the face of everything, in the face of life
 the true dream is being able to dream at all



Just words

He had a word, too. Love, he called it.

 But I had been used to words for a long time.

 I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.
It was just a word

Magical winter wonderland

Sometimes

 when I lug around a camera

I can be lucky to be in the right place at the right time

Heading for the light

I've wandered around with nothing more than time on my hands

I was lost in the night

And at times it was so blue and lonely

Been close to the edge, hanging by my fingernails

And I couldn't see the sign that warned me, I'm

Heading for the light

I didn't see that big black cloud hanging over me

And when the rain came down I was nearly drowned

My shoes are wearing out from walking down this same highway

Heading for the light

Frozen

I can't feel my senses

I just feel the cold

All colours seem to fade away

The river's frozen once again

The cold shine behind

The frozen stream

Reminds me of your eyes

Ta aldri noen for gitt

Ta aldri noen for gitt 

 Hold hvert menneske du er glad i nær hjertet ditt

 For en dag våkner du kanskje opp og innser,

 at du har mistet en Diamant

 mens du var opptatt med å samle gråstein



Life

 Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life

 -Marcel Proust-





If I could ...

If I could bring down the moon to you

I would

but even that

would ever be enough

Når vinteren kommer

Når vinteren kommer, kan da våren være langt unna?

Farewell you

I`ve been wandering around for so long

waiting

 thinking

Waiting and thinking is all I seem to do

Safe inside myself are all my thoughts of you

But it ends here today

I've been looking in the mirror for so long.

That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side.

All the little pieces falling

 shatter

Shards of me,

too sharp to put back together

But

Today is the beginning of my new life

I am starting over today

And I will focus on all good things in life

because life is too short

But you'll stay in my past

forever

Farewell you

You

As I look into your eyes

I see all the reasons why

My life’s worth a thousand skies

You’re the simplest love I’ve known

And the purest one I’ll own

How do I explain that smile?

And how it turns my world around

Keeping my feet on the ground

I will soothe you if you fall

I’l be right there if you call

You’re my greatest love of all

-Marc Anthony-

Why ?

 

why do we love again

when love has broken the heart

why does the sun shine

when the rain still falls

why does the bird sing

when the tree has no leaves

why does a floor always creak

when need is to be silent

why do so many listen

when promises are so often broken

why do we have the choice

when so often the choice is wrong

why do we care so much

when so many do not

why is the love often frowned

when the loved is to be different

-Gary M. Dean-

I carry your heart

I carry your heart with me

(I carry it in my heart)

I am never without it.

anywhere

I go you go, my dear

 and whatever is done

by only me is your doing, my darling

i carry your heart

(i carry it in my heart)

-e.e.cummings-

Drømmer

"Fortalte jeg noen gang at jeg elsket deg...?."

 " For jeg gjør det... elsker deg..."

visket hun ut i natten

 mens hun smilte.

Så våknet hun alene
 av dagslyset som skinte inn vinduet

Missing

Missing someone isn't about how long it's been since you've seen them last

or the amount of time since you've talked.

it's about that very moment when you're doing something,

and you wish that they were right there with you

Eagle

I can fly higher than an eagle,

'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

 

Sunstream

and the sky just opened up



Meaning of life

So I found a reason to stay alive,

try a little harder, see the other side.

Talking to myself -

Too many sleepless nights,

trying to find a meaning to this stupid life.

I don't want your sympathy,

sometimes I don't know who to be



This could be the first

day of my life

So I found a reason

to let it go



But it doesn`t

I want to say it gets easier,

 but sometimes it doesn’t get all that much easier.

Sometimes

Sometimes,

 if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge

 and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you,

 you will suddenly know everything there is to be known. 

-A.A. Milne-

Kom

Vil du vita kva ljoset er,

kom då hit og ver meg nær

Eg skal sjå deg, og seia deg

kva eg ser



Message for you

I am convinced

Yes...let`s just

leave everything and everyone behind

and live for the moment

you

and

me

The very same moon

Night after night, I look to the stars

Wondering where you might be

And I've thought to myself, is that very same moon

Shining on you, like it's shining on me

Keep on walking

I have a long road ahead of me

It's cloudy and dark it's hard to see

Will I ever get through to the end?

Been down this sling so many times before

And I told myself I would do it no more

Now I'm back on the same road again

I was aiming for the sky,

ended up flat on the ground

But once again the sun is rising,

I better keep on walking

-Salem Al Fakir-

Do you know?

Another autumn day

has come and gone

I walk alone through the park

I walk along so I can feel my breath

Without distraction, without no relief

You are always om my mind

and I miss you so much...

Do you know?

Sinnsro

-Gi meg styrke til å forandre det jeg kan,

 sinnsro til å akseptere det jeg ikke kan forandre,

 og visdom til å se forskjellen-

 

Skywatch

Mot ukjente landskap

Denne uro e ein vind

som rive i seilet,

- et sting i søvnig sinn,

Denne uro e ein sti

Mot ukjente landskap,

mot alt som kan gå meg forbi.

Så min uro må bli.

Denne uro e ein gnist

som tenne opp bålet

og blir ein brann te sist.

Denne uro e ein del

av liv eg har levd i.

For den som sette alt på spel,

har ein uro i sjel.

Må min uro holda stand

som vind, som bål og brann.

I alt eg har av tilmålt tid:

La min uro forbli.

-Vamp-

Sacrifice

A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
 What he meant is nothing comes without a price.
 So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose.
 Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right,
 and letting someone in means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building.

 Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming,
 when we don't have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss.

 When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around,
 that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.



You can bet your life

      Yes, all that you’ve give me, I know

      But all you’ve cost me, you know

      Sums up to nothing much you know,

      nothing much at all

      

Sorry for not being what you needed

For not possessing what you

Think you want

Don’t know about anyone who does

By the way, is that why

you’re still you?

Still within yourself

Tell me which part I loved

And which one I hate the most?

Did it get you ready for later

Did the others fade out, like me?

well...

I won’t come near you again

You can bet your life

I don’t think I

Even want to see you

Ever again

-Unni Wilhelmsen-



Freedom

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

-Lewis Hine-

 



Hope

No one can take away

my hopes and dreams

of a

new start

and a

new beginning



Autumn

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

-Albert Camus-



Elsewhere



I love the time and in between

the calm inside me

in the space where I can breathe

I believe there is a

distance I have wandered

to touch upon the years of

reaching out and reaching in

holding out holding in

I believe

this is heaven to no one else but me

and I'll defend it as long as I can be

left here to linger in silence

Have patience

Please don't push me,

I need to walk these stairs on my own

If you want to go faster, that`s alright.

I can`t go faster than I am able to.

Please don't push me!

I need to stay here for a while

Rest a little, reflect a little, weep a little...

go back one step, feel if I`m ready to move on

Please don't push me!

It hurts to trip over...

Maybe I`ll trip over anyway,

but at least I`ll do it my way

It`s safer that way.

Don`t try to convince me

the next step is easier

just because you`ve walked these roads before

I feel safe when you`re waiting here with me.

It is safe with you around,

I need someone to hold on to,

someone who knows the next step.

It's hard to take all these steps alone...

I'm heading on...have patience

Please don`t push me!

 

 

Autumn leaves

The falling leaves drift by my window

The falling leaves of red and gold

I see your lips, the summer kisses

The sunburned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long

And soon I'll hear old winter's song

But I miss you most of all, my darling

When autumn leaves start to fall



Courage

-Courage doesn't always roar.

Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow"-

Dagene som kom og gikk



Det kan være man oppsøker "gamle stier"
 når man føler seg ensom og alene

Man gjør det fordi det er godt å være der
la tankene vandre der...

 la tårene komme

slippe ut vonde følelser..

Sette seg ned...

 la minnene strømme på

de gode minnene

de gode minnene man ikke trodde fantes

minnene om en tid som er forbi

Det var en av de dagen som kom og gikk...

Humiliation

The last humiliation