My Life, My Diary, My Poems, My Time to Share

By Leroy Cooper

As It Was Written

January 16, 2022

02:00 Hours

As it was written from the time of my divorce,

my life began to change and seemed to take its own course.

As Twenty Clicks into the Wind was written, my mother had found and read.

She called me and told me she cried. But I didn't stop. I kept writing more instead.

Every day that I wrote, my mother kept note.

She kept everything that she saved in a file.

Till one day, it built up, and I put it in a big pile.

Kept on writing, I did. Speaking about the love I had for my son.

Till one day, we strayed away. And our bond had come undone.

Then one day, I got into a bind, so I came up with a thought.

To bring my past back up. The pages that I've written may someday be bought.

So as I took a look, I made my diary my book.

My life, my diary, my poems. Now it's my time to share.

Every line that I've written is now complete and all there.

Everything that you read is exactly what you're gettin'.

While I tell you what was said, is...as it was written.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9781662483967

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My Life, My Diary, My Poems, My Time to Share

Leroy Cooper

Copyright © 2023 Leroy Cooper

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2023

ISBN 978-1-6624-8395-0 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-8396-7 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

My Diary

About the Author

As It Was Written

My Life

P-o-e-m

My Time to Share

Country Boy

Twenty Clicks in the Wind (2001)

What I Want

One Love, One Son, One Life

The Sad Caller

Fallen

A Time To Remember

Sad Caller

Eleventh of December 2003

Wheel

Will You Ever?

Baby's Mother

Mom

Three Lucky Sevens

December 7, 2003

2003

A Dream Come True

A Moment in Life

A Soldier's Life at NTC

A Tired Man

A True Friend

Alive

Anger Grows

Another Day

As I Lay

As I Wake

Ashes to Ashes

Beautiful

Block

The Blues for NHR

Brink

Candle Light

Can't Take Away

Celebration

Change Is Coming

Cloudy Sunshine

Coming Home

Completed

Dad

Darkness of Hell

Dear Brink

Dear Lord

Dear Son

Dream

Dreams 1

Dreams 2

Empowered

For Every Day

Good Timez

Good Night, My Lullaby

Graceful

Grateful

Grieving

Heartbroken

Hope

I Do Assure You

I Miss Your Love

I Salute

If I Could Make a Rainbow

In Motion

Insanity

Letter Home

Life of a Soldier

Lonesome and Blue

Lonesome Souls

Lost Again

Lost in Confusion

Lost in Thought

Love Lost

Love

Memories

Miracles of Jesus

Mom and Her Squirrel

Just a Moment of My Thoughts

Moments

Mom's Advice

My Bed

My Daddy

My Friend

My Heart

My Mind

My Thoughts

Mystery Within

Hope Ranch

Old Dogs

Once Teary-Eyed

Other Side of the Fence

Past and Present

Path to Sobriety

Pick Me Up

Poem to Mom

The Queen of Hearts

Remember When

Restless

Rise

Romantically Funny

Say to You Howdy

Sentimental

Sheila

Taking Things for Granite

The Boom

The Light

The Wedding Song

New Hope

Veteran Soldier

Voices in the Box

Waiting

Way I Feel

Withered Rose, Poisonous Thorn

As I Grow

Crazy

Directions

Gone

I Was Once

Life's Construction

My Gratitude

My Ways of Coping

Precious Moments

Quote

Sands of Time

Seesaw

Shattered

Soldier

The March

This Year

'Tis So Sweet

Traffic

Winter's Frost

Wonder Why

American Poet

Angel from Above

The Awakening

The Beauty Within

Chasing Ghosts

Confidence

Domino

Empty Flask

Forgotten

Joyful

Lost Sleep

My Best

My Greatest Love

Peace

She Could

Struggles Within

The Battle

The Best

The Devil's Vow

The Sky Is Falling

When I Speak

My Diary

These words that I write.

Are a diary of my life.

Some are strong.

Some are not.

Some you might remember.

While others forgot.

True for the world to see.

Way to kill my pain.

It's the only thing that keeps me free.

As I write.

I feel lifted.

Dumb as a box of rocks.

But in this way, I feel gifted.

My poems are my way of life.

My poems help me.

Like my bayonet.

While others leave me.

It still hasn't yet.

Yes, some are depressing.

But some may have you smile.

You are not alone in life.

For we all have our own style.

About the Author

My autobiography

Who am I? you may ask.

This I wish I could tell…

I was a child filled with laughter.

With parents of divorce.

I was the dream with a happily ever after.

That was one day thrown off course.

I am a father to a son.

I was once a husband to a wife.

I am a soldier stuck on the battlefield.

I am the man who's lost his way in life.

I suffer from addiction

I am troubled with my past.

I no longer put myself on restriction.

Still broken but now with a cast.

Today I continue the fight to remain sober.

Today I feel super.

But as I turn my life, my diary, and poems over.

Today, I am…

Leroy L. Cooper

As It Was Written

As it was written. From the time of my divorce. My life began

To change. And seemed to take its own course. As "twenty clicks

Into the wind" was written. My mother had found and read. She

Called me and told me she cried. But I didn't stop. I kept writing

More instead. Every day that I wrote. My mother kept a note. She

Kept everything that she saved in a file. Till one day it built

Up and I put in a big pile. Kept on writing I did. Speaking

About the love I had for my son. Till one day, we strayed away.

And, our bond had come undone. Then one day I got into a bind so

I came up with a thought. To bring my past. The pages that

I've written may someday be bought. I made my

Diary my book. My life, my diary, my poems. Now it's my time to share.

Every line that I've written is now complete and all there. Everything

That you read is exactly what you're getting. While I tell you what was

Said is…

"As