Boundaries of Romance

By Yolanda Orozco Mendez

Boundaries of Romance is a poetic classic and true account of a lady in search of true affection. It takes her through the storm, through the sun and when she was making up her mind to pack up on Love, she finally sees a glimpse of Light at the end of the tunnel. It shines all over her and gradually she learns how to come out of her shell. She learns of the audience she was created for and everything starts to take a new turn.

Every issue in life has a boundary and the ability to know our limits makes up responsive and energetic to the ultimate search for which we are actually created to be in life. The mind of the author of this book has being to places, interacted with people and related with the who is who in the major ruling sectors of a viable economy.

Every line scribbled down from her pen is worth the read, the written experiences are immeasurable; it cuts across casual to corporate way of getting with the right people. Romance is an ability and Yolanda Orozco Mendez knows how its web is spun. This book has a confirmed potential to heal the readers heart from a dented relationship.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781469182674

Yolanda Orozco Mendez

Yolanda Orozco Mendez is a prolific writer and a woman of many parts. She is presently working on her new book, ‘The Way Love Goes’ and three children’s book on the line-up. Her writings are highly inspirational for she writes from first hand experiences and her works have been rated to bring motivation and healing to her immediate audience. ‘Boundaries of Romance’ was inspired by a dose of experiences she encountered while searching for that raw desire that always fills up our inner vacuum when we finally launch out in faith unto the unknown. Using motivating poetry is her niche and she pegs the pillars of her work around it. She sees poetry as a strong mode of expression that can travel into the depth of the one who doesn’t live on the surface. She also sees it as a force that can recreate the abstract and give it form in more than one dimension and having a new meaning each time it is revisited. Boundaries of Romance carry a confirmable healing potential that can transcend a mind from its feeble state into an uplifted version that make life worth living. Yolanda is an author with divine authority and her books are a must read.

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Copyright © 2012 by Yolanda Orozco Mendez.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgment

A Beginning

Well Now, My Sweetness

At First Sight

The Merry-Go-Round

The Puzzle

The Key to My Heart

The Game

The Web

Sounds of Love

The Picture

The Light

The Second Key

The Questioning

The Connection

The Power of the Word

The Emptiness

What You Wish For

The Dance

Broken Trust

Protector

Fairy Tale

Visions

The Road

Many Firsts

The Stars

In His Eyes

Tell Me

The Doors

Overrated Love

Destiny

Who Am I

The Revelation

Acknowledgment

My gratitude goes first to God for giving me the strength to go through all the rough times in my relationships.

I would also like to express my love for Luap Aden for bringing out the best in me and thanks to Joseph Orale whose poetic quota brought harmony to this project.

My story is entwined from the early days of my youth where every young girl dreamed of a happily-ever-after relationship, but as the saying goes, Life is not a bed of roses. It’s a seesaw characterized by ups and downs, and how we deal in it determines whether we would end up in happiness or sadness.

The love I gave to the man I married was innocent as a child’s love. Initially, he treated me like a queen, but all of a sudden, everything started to go downhill. I had never fallen in love before then, so I could not understand what was happening along the way because what I offered was pure and unrefined. I became like a waterfall, constantly trying to whistle out something in tears that no one could understand. All that took place was a mystery that I could not solve. The only thing I took away with me after many years was my heart full of scars and hurts to show the battle I fought to win but lost. My life would be incomplete if I did not talk about him as he was my heartbeat for the many years I spent with him. I refer to him as the boy I once knew and talked about; he became an irresistible storm. The incident stays like a branded foundation in my heart and mind.

Then came the divorce. I freed myself of this man, and I learned to like myself once again. I built my home with newness of self. I was comfortable and at peace for once in my life. I ventured out to meet someone once again and was swept off my feet by a man whom I refer to in this work as my sunshine. He was everything a woman could want—the looks and charm as I’ve never seen. I met him a year after I put my past behind and was given the ride of my life. My sunshine was there for me when the weakness of my old life would hit me; his comfort was what I needed at that time and day. He truly brought sunshine where dark clouds once covered my sky. Things began to take a different toll as I struggled to define my role in my sunshine’s life; it was like building a faulty foundation. It was shocking to learn what some men could be capable of doing to your heart.

Along came another man whose substance I could not decipher but hovered above me like a light. He never would leave my sight, always there reassuring me with his words of insight. This light had a mission that I did not understand, but I kept him as my friend. He saw the faulty foundation and made it his first obligation to get it restored. He broke into the fallow grounds of my life and brought out a hidden treasure in me that has been seeking for pores to erupt from. The page he opened for me is new and demanding, and at first, I found it hard to understand the course he was charting. I desired true love, and he has given me more than I bargained for. They say in this world, nothing is perfect and that’s a true word. It all depends on us if we can decide to keep our imperfections silent and display them as perfect. If that will bring you true happiness, go ahead and press play.

Thus, I’m picking up the pieces to try and make sense of my past, present, and where my future is leading. It made me understand all the boundaries, the boundaries that surround life and love. I have learned and I am still in the process of knowing that some of life’s crossroads are blessings.

A Beginning

Introduction Boundary

Love is a request full of many romantic adventures

And we must pose well to grace its album of pictures.

Our minds are introduced to all real and fake images;

Therein we grow and stand up to present challenges.

If we can keep our ship calculated from capsizing

Then the demand for our presence keeps on rising.

If in our deep desires we can burn a little more,

We move in realms of peace, isolated from any war.

When our eyes and ears are fresh and naive,

We can attain anything we think of or conceive.

But here we are, always in yet another complication

And all we have is to handle its steering of motion.

Our war leaves us with stars on our shoulders,

While all the scars concealed in our hidden folders.

No one cares about our guts and the cuts we encounter;

They only stare in admiration as our medals conquer.

As much as every beginning looks flavored and warm,

We must brace up for the oncoming distant storm.

Every happening in life has a beginning; every situation is a sequence of a previous one. The romance we all experience one time or the other started with a seed in the form of sight, notion, or words. In our present day, we can’t elaborate on the boundaries of romance without laying full emphasis on the power of words, for words have the highest force on the earth to sustain love, romance, and affection. The power of words can awaken our heart, our imagination, and our spiritual inner connection. One word can intoxicate us and make us live in a euphoric world for the rest of our days.

When I was a child three years of age, I lived in Chula Vista, California. On a beautiful sunny day as I played outside my doorsteps, along came several playmates and a teenage girl, a grown-up and worldly in my eyes. She proceeded to have us sit in the grassy area and told us that we could actually touch the sky. Wide eyed, we looked toward the sky, thinking what impossible feat. Even at the age of three, I was no fool. She had us lie down and look toward the sky with extended arms. WOW, we could actually touch the clouds and the sky. How amazing it was. She was right. What an experience. The clouds flowed through my fingers. I remember lying there, letting my imagination run away with me. At that moment, I felt a connection spiritually with a higher being, a being I later in life chose to seek.

I have realized that an open heart, a naive heart, can be captured by one word. Just a word of sweetness can cause a flood wave of feelings or experiences that you’ve never before felt. The sweet sound of a seized word by our heart can send us reeling, reeling into another dimension where it looks like life has no meaning or sense. Words are meant to be used as a soothing balm, like a