Life goes on, it kind of rolls, and the important part is the ride, and of course, to stay on.  It's where we learn about ourselves.  Through pain and fortune and all life's experiences.  This begins the era of computer dating (i.e. match.com).  This leads to a wild time in my life, discovery of one self, and making some very good friends.  I had a roommate, a pretty cool, somewhat oddball, named Corrina.  Not much to say about her other than my plants disappeared mysteriously, and she brought home a lot of doggy bags, from one time only dates.  She had lots of one time only dates.

The thing I remembered was that she computer dated by aol.com.  I figured what the hell (pardon my French).  Love at AOL led to Match.com.  I just had a "Loved and lost" relationship, and I was feeling pretty badly going into the 2002 holiday season.  2002 was my only bad year since I turned forty.  The next three years provided me with some important relationships and friendships and they were all good years. 

At the end of 2005, I decided to try Match.com again, actually, all I did was look to see if they still had my profile accessible.  I typed my user name and guessed my password and it was still there.  I hadn't used the service in almost two years nor had emails or anything from Match in almost as long.  I guess that because I logged in, it must have flipped a switch at the Match headquarters (automatic response), and the next day I started getting advertisements again, and emails from ladies.  It couldn't have been more than two days later that I got an interesting message from a lady that intrigued me enough to pay a membership fee to correspond.  After a few more messages and some lengthily phone calls, we decided to meet at a Starbucks.

Her name is Pam, and she works at the San Diego Wild Animal Park.  She is a zoo Keeper (animal handler) and also has a position in the education department.  We hit it off great.  Within two months, I proposed.  Seems kind of fast, I know, but the marriage was for down the road a ways.  This poem I wrote for her was for Valentine's Day, 2006.

Sometimes you just know

There’s still more, than waves beating the shore

It’s more than hope that still keeps me afloat

There’s a shadow, really, touching only a part

It covers briefly that part of my heart

It shows up at night when things aren’t quite right

A faint apprehension that stays out of sight

It calls to me with a tinge of fear

Repeating a message, it’s time to steer clear

Time to take a new tack, slightly alter my track

Open the doors and simply don’t look back

Take control of what’s mine, bask in that sunshine

Decide where to go, decide, what I know

The time has come, between the moon and the sun

There is no better time to make the two one

We meet for a start, with a jolt to my heart

Red halo, old soul, our worlds come apart

There’s touching and tracing, my lips to your cheek

In taking my breath, eyes open only to peek

Stroll hand in hand, attached at the hip

The beverage, our life, we alternate sips

Young souls included, members of our pack

The fiery angels, Amanda and Dak

Happiness a sound, it rings in the wind

Smiles abound, racing round and round

Together finally, the journey’s begun

Sailing the sea, our maze, the first race is won

I’m not in a hurry, now, and never more

One day at a time, savor, devour, implore

The completeness we know isn’t only a show

Its luminescence, sunshine, not merely a glow

Sometimes the wild wind will blow

Sometimes you just know

D Copper 2/12/6