Writing for Everyone Inspired by Only One

By Amanda Bates

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book was inspired ironically out of personal tragedy. It contains a collective of many poems as well as excerpts by mainly two authors but a few others as well. The title of this book is WRITING FOR EVERYONE INSPIRED BY ONLY ONE".
We decided upon this title for the simple fact that by publishing the book it will inspire readers with words written from several different aspects.
The purpose is for this book is to help those that are in need of comfort and inspiration, we hope that it will touch many lives and accomplish exactly that. With that being said in the event that it brings only one reader a sense of understanding that God has given us these words to relay them to whomever they are intended.
I firmly believe that all things happen for a reason nothing is by chance. In this life we must endure pain and suffering, no not one of us can avoid them.
With this book you should at the very least know that something good can come from your pain and sorrow, and that if you will allow him God is always there for you, within these words you will find you are not alone. Life is all about choices, we hope that you will choose to read this book, knowing that God inspired us to write our most intimate details about our own experiences.
There truly is something in the writing for everyone, as difficult as it has been for us to write, we pray that it is equally helpful for you to read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483612065

Amanda Bates

My name is Marlene Bellemey. I have always valued how very close our family has been and tried to live life by cherishing quality time with our unusually large extended family. Nothing in particular or special just pretty much an everyday stay at home mom walking along this journey we call life trying to stay on track following God’s direction. I had reached a milestone by age 50 God decided for my life that I had a detour to take do to the fact that one road would close forever. Now forced to go another direction as the death of my son would lead my journey into the depths of some of the darkest pain inside my soul life as we knew it was ever changed. It wasn’t until the funeral that my eyes were opened as I listened to the heartfelt words being read by so many of my family members that they themselves had written from their hearts. Until the passing of my son Robbie I had no Idea that I not only hurt so deep that this wound would inspire my broken and bleeding heart to from which these words I write continue to overfl ow. I have decided in his honor to share my most intimate love and pain I pray this will bring comfort to even just one. All we can do is live life to the fullest as did my precious son.

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Writing For Everone

Inspired By Only One

Amanda Bates

Copyright © 2013 by Amanda Bates.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2013904952

ISBN:      Hardcover      978-1-4836-1205-8

                Softcover      978-1-4836-1204-1

                 Ebook         978-1-4836-1206-5

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Rev. date: 06/11/2013

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Contents

A bridge of gold

Angels Without Wings

Ashame

Blind

Caged Spirit

Happy Father’s Day

Excerpts 2

Excerpts 4

Excerpt 5

Excerpt 6

Excerpts 7

Excerpts

Excerpts 8

Fragile Hearts

Golden Grains of Sand

Goodbye

Mother

Someone

Until Next We Meet

Why

Wings

Blessed

Judgement

Equal

Half Finished

Hollow

Human Race

Illusive

It Is What It Is

Jealousy

Misfortune

Excerpts 3

Perception

Reality

Reincarnation

Silenced

Snow Angels

Stone

Suicide

Superficial Society

Trinity

Truth

Unity

Vicariously

Daddy 78 Springs

Clothes In Our Closets,

Clothes On Our Backs

In loving memory

One Month and a Day

Sorrow

Tears for heaven

Grief

Missing You Son

Rob

Without You

A bridge of gold

to love is to give anything and everything of yourself,

to be shameless and to be unselfish always.

To look at another and see and feel true wealth,

you know that without words you hear as he prays

genuine love has power beyond any and all physical,

for this love is all held within your hearts your spirit,

to truly have been loved is beyond mystical

but to have also given love and received it

this is the once in a lifetime, the indescribable magic

if you cannot relate to my feelings and my translations

I feel pity for you, who have never known this

for all of your accomplishments what have you done?

To have gained all the material, and yet you are still unable to build anything.

Your spirit and love has already created a bridge of gold,

one that only love can cross can bring the spirit to the one you hold,

this bridge cannot be burned by those who do not know what,

for you and your love only will ever know the way,

temptation is non existence material is unimportant

love only possess what it needs to survive,

and it never takes what is not given freely,

it then would not be love but rather a mere possession taken by a thief,

to be in love is to have lived life completely.

Author and finisher: God

writing instrument: Amanda Bates… I merely held the pen

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Angels Without Wings

My heart and soul have been completely ripped into shreds,

Nothing left my precious ones stolen in the night right from their very beds,

I pray never ceasing day and night still no answers,

My heartache and devastation continue to spread as if the most terminal of cancer,

the weeks turn into months as the months into years,

A mother losing her babies is the worst of any and all nightmares

I have cried out to you dear God year after year,

You’ve failed to respond for so long, I can’t even shed one more tear.

All of the crying and praying would seem for nothing,

Leaving me like a songbird without any harmony to sing.

God did my prayers come out so wrong that it is I you could not hear?

I cannot even cry I am so numb, there are no more words, for I am certain I have prayed them all.

My sadness has turned to anger built around broken pieces, no one can penetrate this wall.

Today I prayed God that you would send me an angel, and instead you sent me two?

I only asked for one, you have always known my heart through and through.

When they appeared on my doorstep they were in pieces too.

They began teaching me to feel again, I cried out to you

We first cried tears of sorrow as we began to pray

It was as though time had turned the page a new chapter in my life all in a day.

Our laughter made us cry happy tears little by little cleansing the sorrow away,

Before we knew it we were bathing in a river of our tears we’d cried united.

Flowing along this tear filled stream going with whatever felt right.

Along our journey our tears could build no bridges and believe me we cried many.

We just continued to go upstream