Season of Hope

Sunshine and beauty arise in my soul

Love is a gift found within

Oh what a wonder, the world’s all aglow

Now it is spring time again

Gone is the cold of a brisk winters day

Gone is the ice and the snow

Now in it’s place are children at play

And willows and flowers that grow

Oh what a wonder the world in new growth

Oh what a wonder the sun

Souls are uplifted, sadness is gone

Spring time has finally begun

Spring is so precious, life is so full

Love and new growth all around

Birds on the wing singing new songs

My feet barely stay on the ground

What a wonderful feeling the warmth of the sun

The feel of a soft summer breeze

My spirit is uplifted, new life has begun

There’s a whisper of hope thru the trees

D. Rennich                 I.M.Forever       3-27-1993

The Gods

Life is full of little changes

When they happen, they re-arrange us
We don’t have a lot to say
That’s how it is, it’s just that way

We fool ourselves, thinking we have control

Then life takes over and away we go
This way or that way, no one can know
Tossed by the winds to and fro

Just like the dust driven by a breeze

Crushed and bruised dropped to our knees
Begging for help and a place of refuge
There is no answer, it is no use

We are but trinkets in a little game

We did not ask to come here and we’re sorry we came
Pawns on a chess board, trophies to play for
Lost in this fantasy, misery for ever more

Just when you think it is done, I am through

A toss of the dice, a beginning a new
They are eternal players
And the play thing, Is You!

D. Rennich          I.M.Forever             12-04-1992

My Best Friend

Year after year I wandered in vain

Trying to find the true me

Suddenly, dark turned to light

I was quite stunned

I could not believe what I'd seen

There in those eyes, the playground of time

Looking out as I looked in

Someone like me lost and alone

Searching through life for a friend

Someone who thinks and feels like I do

Someone whose spirit is free

Willing to run willing to fly

Willing to let me be me

Oh what a shock when I realized

That I had seen them before

Those eyes that I saw, starring

Back from the mirror

Why, they were just my eyes once more

D. Rennich   I.M.Forever  3-20-1993 



A Glorious Place Little Tree

                                        

But what a glorious place to live, little tree.

In summer and winter

You are always here with me

My days on McCloud Creek, have been natural and free
I brought a little sapling from my giant willow tree
I planted it next to a brook nearby, where I could still see
And say to it each morning, What a Glorious Place to be

The little tree grows stronger with each passing day
And soon the woodland creatures came to the tree to stay
And there, they raise their families, so natural and free
All because I planted a little willow tree

Stand tall little tree, you are truly beautiful
You have won the struggle to be here in this place
For many years to come I will marvel at your swaying
Your beauty, your strength but most of all your grace

My children’s children will know you
And scamper in your shade
All because of one small willow
And the journey that we made.

 D. Rennich                  I.M.Forever                    10-14-2007

Merry Christmas My Darlings

Peace on Earth

                                               

Merry Christmas my darlings

They heard their Grandma say
What in the world is going on here
Is this really Christmas day

Do you know what really happened

A long long time ago
How a little babe was born
In a land that has no snow

A great star shown above him

To give the world light
And wise men offered presents
To the babe born that night

I heard his name was Jesus

And in a manger he lay
There were animals all around him
And angels kneeled to pray

Heaven was filled with singing

From a chorus up above
As God presented to the world
A token of his love

You can learn about this Jesus

In your Bible every day
And even more important
He will be there when you pray

D. Rennich           I.M.Forever        11-2001

Written for my grandchildren in 2001

She

                                                      

She is always with me

Sometimes quiet, sometimes sad

She can be so very pleasant

And she can be so very bad

All my life I have spent with her

She’s there each place I go

There are times she’s full of laughter

Many times that is not so

For she seems a darker creature

Full of self and unconcern

Always thinking of the wrong things

Regardless of the truths we learn

She is cute in her own way tho

That’s her strongest trait so far

I can’t even quite control her

That is why, we are where we are

Now we’re fighting for control here

First it’s her and then it’s me

People never see this struggle

For it’s inside where none can see

But some day one will be stronger

Yet the world will never know

When the one becomes a winner

Then the other one must go

How I’ll miss these little battles

But the strangest thing might be

Not me who is the winner

But the winner might be she

 

D. Rennich             I.M.Forever             11-26-1992

A Winters Day

The first snow of winter
Like feathers from the sky
The children are delighted
As they watch them floating by

Each one a separate masterpiece
Made by a loving hand
Sparkling white, crisp and clean
As they fall upon the land

Morning goes by, the storm subsides
The children come out to play
There's angels to make and sleds to ride
On this first winters day

All bundled in coats and snow pants
With gloves and caps that match
They run and jump with their hands outstretched
For the snowflake they hope to catch

On one little hand a snowflake falls
But it quickly goes away
Back to the sky, back to the clouds
To be a snowflake, on another Winters Day

I.M.Forever
11-28-94