The Journey to Freedom - Book One

By H. Dirk Macgrieve

A journey in which each and every step gives us a taste of both, we all long for the sweet taste of life. But without the bitter taste of life! There is no appreciation for how wonderful LIFE'S sweet taste has to offer. © 2011 H. Dirk Macgrieve

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Oct 16, 2012
• ISBN: 9781300311911

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The Journey to Freedom - Book One

The Journey to Freedom

H. Dirk Macgrieve

A Bittersweet Journey

A journey in which each and every step gives us a taste of both, we all long for the sweet taste of life. But without the bitter taste of life! There is no appreciation for how wonderful LIFE’S sweet taste has to offer.

© 2011 H. Dirk Macgrieve

Copyright

© 2012 H. Dirk Macgrieve

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-300-3119-11

Published by LuLu Press

http://www.lulu.com

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

All rights reserved.

Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the author and/or publisher.

No copyright infringement intended! Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright has been established in accordance with title 17, United States Code. Library of Congress

Dedication

Special thanks to my father and mother, who laid the foundation for my creative imagination, as well my children that allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

To those that have been part of my life, which have shared their lives with mine. To my friends that have shared this journey along the way, to my own personal Angel, Phantom Shadow Dancer & Daisyinator, Adriana, Jarrod, David and April, Chris and Michelle.

To a few of my closest author friends who have been there to kick me in the rear when needed, so I wouldn’t give up, thank you Brianna Hughes, Robin Lane, H. Álayá Serolf, Mystique O’Connell, Shae Gallagher, Leighton Scott, Grace Rhyian, and A.K. Hadley.

Contents

Cover Page

Acknowledgements

Copyright

Dedication

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Coming Soon

Author Notes

Chapter 1

Reconcilement

Life is a most unusual Professor

Funny how life, works there is no room for errors; you make a mistake you fail, you get it right and you can fail. Professor Life doesn't like to explain itself, but just likes to throw that lesson right out there. I have learned something very real though, it’s not about the failing and believe it or not, it’s not about the passing.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LIVING!

© 2008 H. Dirk Macgrieve

Stop to think

Stop to think, for one moment. To what we leave behind, when we are past this time. We have here and what we have done for those we leave behind.

© 2008 H. Dirk Macgrieve

The Words of My Soul

I want to share the words of my soul, I want to share my feelings with you so that you may know I desire no other but you. On that day when my eyes saw you for the first time, I saw a most beautiful flower. One of the most beautiful flowers ever put on this earth.

You have a beauty that makes me drunk, to smell your sweet scent, a scent that surrounds me, this intoxicating scent that poisons my every vein, with desire to be with you. You are my rose.

How I long for your hold on me, which grips my soul and binds me, making me unable to move from your grasp. It is the quickening, that feeling that goes so far into the depths of my soul, and it has blinded my eyes to all around me.

My eyes see only you, they burn with a fire, this flame consumes me it brings my blood to boil at the very thought of you. The warmth of your lips I long to feel against mine.

To be able to taste the sweet passion in your kiss as you sip the breath of my life.

With each sunrise of the day and the sighting of the moon as the stars fill the night sky, I feel the coldness of the night air within my breath as it cuts me deep in my chest. This fire of passion that burns me ever so deeply, as it takes my soul to a better place.

A place not of this world, for there is no such place. It lives only in dreams, for with the waking of the new day brings the hope that our love does grow stronger in the warmth of the new days sun.

For in this hope I find you.

© 2008 H. Dirk Macgrieve

Closest to my Heart

When we first met, we slowly became friends, as time went by then you became closest to my heart. I used to think friendships never ended, until those unexpected feelings begin to surface.

I was always so confident that we would never part; I was always so convinced ours would never end. I was so confused of how that love we had did end, but then I realized what you never wanted to lose, was never yours from the start.

The love we held inside when we looked in each other’s eyes, it made me realize and how sharing my feelings still never did end.  So as best friends we were never from the start, to feel something more was only without a heart. As my heart needed healing I realized the truth, friends we might have been but never closest to my heart.

For us to be but one, we knew from the start to want each other it had to come from our hearts. I knew my mistake was cherished from my heart, for my biggest mistake was to think you were the closest to my heart.

© 2008 H. Dirk Macgrieve

Spoken Words

Your spoken words which you share from your heart the sweet sound of your voice, as it cuts deep into my heart. The feelings and emotions that well up within my heart, when I hear your spoken words, and how they touch the depths of my soul, your voice is but a song to