If you say I closed my door

And if I've ceased to feel

I'll open up and let you in

I'll find out if you are real.

But only if you need and want

Me there,

in timeless hours.

I'll take your hand

I'll share your smile

I'll be your desert flower.

Life and love can often be a struggle for us. Author R. Lee Hendon expresses his struggles in Of Life and Love, poems that are self-revealing and self-indulging.

Perhaps we can identify with his somewhat fragmented and broken life experiences. Perhaps we can gain a greater understanding of our common life experiences, leading to some ahas!, to give joy, love, and direction to life's challenging adventure. Come what may, the journey is not over until it is over.

About the Author

R. Lee Hendon has lived in the South most of his life other than thirteen years in Atchinson, Kansas. He was the first in his family to graduate from college: Milligan College and Vanderbilt Divinity School. Ministry was his chosen profession for forty-five years, retiring in January 2015. He is an avid motorist, have ridden to and through every state in the U.S. and every province in Canada, tent camping as he goes. He has two wonderful children and four marvelous grandchildren. His retirement avocation has become triathlons.

Hendon currently lives in Waycross, Georgia.