By Ta-Wei
Date: 31 August 1999

“Thank You..."

	I can still remember back to a meticulous time,
When I felt the happiest because you were mine.
	Mine to hold, to love, to cherish for life,
When nothing else seemed to matter because I wanted you as my wife.  (remember?)
	I can still smell your perfume on that cold breezy night,
When I held U closely as we watched that ferry pass by.
	From that moment I thought I knew what it would take,
to make it through every step of the way.

	But then the feelings started to fade,
like two doves that lost the only thing that mattered,   their faith.
	I chose the path that I knew I shouldn’t of tooken,
by seeing someone else while you weren’t looking.

	A time when we went through agonizing pain,
because we knew that things could never be the same.
	At a point in my life, I didn’t know what to do,
but my heart was telling me that, “I really do love you!”.

	So I came over and confessed,
had to let it all off my chest.
	To prove that I didn’t want us to say our good-bye’s,
I gave you my necklace, that to me , was worth more than my own life.
	That night I went to bed and started to cry,
and asked myself the same question, “why?”

	I didn’t know what I needed to do, 
had no one to turn to.
	But God prevailed and showed me the way,
as I prayed and prayed every night and every day.
	He guided me blindly as I faced my fear,
of losing the only one that mattered, through my shedding tears.
	I prayed to him for just one more chance,
this time I wanted to make it last, 
	better than all the relationships in the past.
I wanted ours to be different,
where we both can openly share our own opinions.
	A bond between us that everyone would adore,
where we could be like best friends but much, much more.

	I wanted to give you the world,
to thank God for such a gifted girl.
	I mean, you have what every man needs, 
A mind, the power, and the ability to feed.
	Feed the mind with endless points of view,
of how to look a the world as if it were new.
	you have the wealth that I could never attain,
with your family, it’s love, and how you got through the pain.
	I know I would have never gotten through,
what you had to face when your father had left you.
	And for that I was impressed by your unsurpassed courage,
it is something I will carry forever in storage.

	Your truly distinct from all the people I’ve ever met,
your fighting spirit is always well kept.
	I don’t mean that in a bad way,
it means you always have something to say.
	You have the beauty that would take infinities to describe,
both mentally and physically,
	they would fill the vast sky.

	And yet you know how to respect yourself,
not like all those other girls who just look for wealth.
	There is no number to count all the ways you’ve won my love,
They’re so many, they would outrun the stars.
	
	But recently, as time past, we grew for certain,
that eventually we would have to close the curtain.
	Maybe God put us here to become best friends, 
so that we may learn from each other until the very end.
	Or was it fate that made us cross paths,
on the way of our journey to find our other halves.
	Your picture will always have a place on my table,
so that when I’m lonely and sad I will be able,
	to think of you though we are apart,
because you’ll always have a place in my heart...


							-- Ta-Wei  9/12/98