We only thought we  knew what true love was. Our passion for each other was true, but our time together has taught us so much more.
It is the peace we share  without words.  The  faith she shows in reaching for me  while eyes still closed, firm in her belief I will be there.
It is our confidence in our love. Our faith in each other that is beyond words, beyond doubt, that we will always breath the same air!

Leslie R Hennick

I expected her to feel my sadness, and for her to care,
But all she ever gave me, was just more despair.

I expected her to see my face, my eyes in such pain
Instead I got another reprimand, and her disdain,

I expected her to hug me, and help me feel better,
But I just got her anger, that made me regret her,

I expected it would be harder, for me to just walk away,
But now that I’ve forgotten her, I smile every day!

A  poem by Leslie R Hennick 12/31/2025

Unfortunately,  I was diagnosed with cancer for the third time. I was scheduled  for a pet scan to map my disease.  I cancled because  I am tired, and not sure if I want to proceed.  Juat to get radiation therapy mon thru Friday  for at least 6 weeks. Life sucks!

My cancer stole my confidence, but returned to me my hope. It filled my mind with fear, which let me hear my heart again. It gave my people such sorrow, which raised their joyous thoughts of me. Yes, my cancer has taken much from me, but it gave me better things to see.

Leslie Ronald Hennick 8/2015 all rights reserved

Eternity, I think about that word a lot lately. What does it truly mean. Is “Eternity “ forever? Or does it mean forever feels like right now.

Because that is what forever feels like to me, right now. Right now, I feel empty, lost, and abandoned.

Right now, I am sitting alone in this gigantic vacuum of emptiness, that is my life. This cold lonely place I call me.

I am not so much afraid of right now. No, it is more like I now understand that I am hopelessly consumed by my abject despair.

This is a foundational truth of who I am. A realization of who I really am. Who I really have been, and most importantly, who I will never be.

That is who I am, a lost cause. A person who is destined to just drift endlessly between dreams of the great things that might have been. And the reality of my complete and utter abject failure.

My failure is real and it has completely consumed me. I have been betrayed by the only one who could truly betray me, me!

This is a cold and hard reality of who I really am. The bitter reality of me.
I am and always will be the reason this has happened to me.

The ugly truth that I have, and always will fail. Because I am the cause, and effect of who I am. I am my failure, I am my pain. And It is my destiny to suffer thru my infinite failures!

“This is the truth of me”.

Leslie R Hennick ©️ all rights reserved

“US” humans are just wading through our time here on this earth. Wandering constantly,  restlessly, as we  see our lives through our eyes and feel our life through our hearts.

This is our error, our great mistake, because it is what blinds us as we walk through our time.

We must  “feel our lives with our eyes.”  That and only that will open them so we can see the tryanny, injustice, and cruelty that surrounds us as we walk our life path.

We must “See our world through our hearts.” Then, and only then can we feel the truth of what we need to do, and how we have to be courageous, so we can stand up, and speak up and do what is righteous for all.

Regardless of what faith you practice, or if you have no faith at all,  It doesn’t really matter! Simply put, everyone who is alive, and everyone who has ever been alive, ends up with the same thing. “Having nothing, sharing nothing, and feeling nothing.”

We will only continue to exist in the hearts and minds of those lives we touched with our kindness, our love, and our unrelenting belief that we are all family.

“We are what we do”

Leslie Ronald Hennick 06/27/2020. All rights reserved.

“OUR JOURNEY” is not defined by our peaks and valleys. Those are just brief moments. In the frequency of our time,

The real essence of our lives lay in the journey between our peaks and our valleys

Yet  we spend so much of our precious time, either reliving our past glories,
or bemoaning our deepest failures,

And in doing so, we end up wasting the best part of our time, “OUR JOURNEY “

“OUR JOURNEY “ is that long climb where we dedicate so much effort to achieving our lofty goals,

However, it is also those many days, weeks, months, and years of hard work that we both believed and invested in each othe

Because “OUR JOURNEY “ is also all those days, weeks, months, and years that are filled with doubt, despair, and anger about our journey,

While we painfully endure our seemingly endless freefall before, we finally bottom out.

So, while you’re on “OUR JOURNEY!” Please take the time to stop and smell the roses!
It is not just a moment of  time on “YOUR JOURNEY”
It is a way of life

Leslie Ronald Hennick, copy write 7/20

All past Sols I have visited, all future Sols you shall see me again
Because every summers warmth, is my destiny to end.                                                     So prepare as you might for the dying of this summers light,
you will never be fully ready for the coldness of my night.ut as it was, so shall it will be again, for I cant stop the returning of the spring
With its explosion of life’s warmth that it is going to bring. But rest assured my warm friend, winters wrath will again return,
To plunge you back into its darkness, and once again share it’s cold burn.

LESLIE R Hennick 6/2020

I now know how finite the light is, as mine slowly dims on the horizon,

I am cold but not afraid, this life of light has brought me too much pain,

Even now as I slowly drift away in the waning of my last light,

I embrace its cold relief, as I am gently enveloped in its darkness.

So dont cry for me when I’m gone, I have found peace within my stillness.

And such great joy from the release of my ever constant pain.

I will now live within each you, in the light of  your memories,

As I peacfully await our reunion, in the hereafter, that beckons us all.

Leslie R Hennick 11/26/2019