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    Our Journey
    Our Journey
    Our Journey
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    Our Journey

    By Benjamin Tatanka Dakota

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    Our journey is just beginning, as the life you lead has
    many turns.
    Our journey is a collection of poems written in a way that goes
    through many aspects of our lives. Either you have experienced
    will or seen it happen. Each experience is unique as like the
    poetry I have brought to you. I write from many aspects and views
    as we all have 2 eyes yet we see so much with them and what we
    see is so precious as it is in the moment.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 20, 2012
    ISBN9781469150475
    Our Journey
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    Benjamin Tatanka Dakota

    My name is Benjamin Tatanka Dakota. My family is from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada. I was born 10th April 1979. I myself grew up in many places. But since I was young I felt I could see things differently but as I tried to understand them, I lost the magic. Till I got to a point when I was inspired by a simple child’s acceptance of the world. Do to simple acceptance of this great world I could see much more than I could have ever imagined.

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      Our Journey - Benjamin Tatanka Dakota

      Copyright © 2012 by Benjamin Tatanka Dakota.

      Library of Congress Control Number:       2012900609

      ISBN:         Hardcover                               978-1-4691-5046-8

                         Softcover                                 978-1-4691-5045-1

                         Ebook                                      978-1-4691-5047-5

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

      Xlibris Corporation

      0-800-644-6988

      www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk

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      303293

      I dedicate this book to my mother.

      Gone in life but never in my heart.

      Contents

      The Lone Stranger

      The Lonesome Dove

      Life

      Father

      Love

      I’m so Much in Love

      The Love of a Lonely Man

      The Look of Love

      A Dream so True

      Sailing

      The Four Seasons of Love

      You Are in My Dreams

      The Man Who Was Never Known

      From the Heart

      Always Thinking of You

      Missing You

      True Love Story

      So Here I Write My Love to You

      Beauty in Your Eyes

      At First Sight

      This is Not a Fairy Tale

      Tears of Happiness

      Sunrise Sunset

      My One and Only

      A Friend with a True Meaning

      Why You Are so Special

      True Love Knows

      Love Always Finds a Way

      Mother

      Somewhere Out There

      Be Yourself

      Love is a Bond

      On the Inside

      Open Your Heart

      More than Words Can Say

      My Star at Night

      For the Creator

      What is Life

      Hope is All I Have

      Many Tribes Driven by the Same Spirit

      The Path

      A True Friend Lasts Forever

      I Will Always be Here

      The Tree of Life

      The Sound of the Drum

      Memories

      Our Future

      Birthday

      The Power of Hope

      My Prayer

      We Need to Teach

      My Words Have No Meaning

      Young at Heart

      Listen

      For Someone Who Cared

      Words from the Wise

      Where it Lies

      The Sound

      Marriage

      The Power of a Woman

      Teachers of Three

      I’ll Be There

      Rain

      A Warm Embrace

      Take Time

      Every Day

      Colors

      The Flame

      There is One

      I Am

      Handwritten

      Claim or Accept

      Untouched

      Trapped to Express

      Artistic Expression

      Always Special to Me

      Only You

      It Came from You

      Only for You

      A Gentle Hug a Gentle Kiss

      How I Feel

      Always Yours

      Forever Yours

      The Words that Were Felt

      Could it Be You

      A Bond

      Lost in Life

      The River

      The Puzzle that Always Fits

      Cross Paths

      The Choice

      I See the Magic

      Never Replaced

      Message in the Bottle

      The Box

      The Present

      The Guardian

      Defined

      Focus

      Connected

      To Build

      The Different

      Everything is a Part of

      Imagination

      This is Your Paradise

      The Tree

      Symphony

      The Chameleon and the Leopard

      Language

      The Bridge

      The Moment

      The Candle

      Compassion

      It Comes to You

      Recital

      The Belief of a Child

      The Crystal

      Aware

      To Share

      Raindrop

      Lost a

      Contrast

      Musical Note

      Man’s Best Friend

      Eclipse

      Can’t Buy

      Do You Believe

      Alone

      A Guide

      Find Your Voice

      Emotions

      Mime

      Not to Understand

      Spiral

      Stand

      Never Too Late

      The Brave

      The Lore

      The Inspiration

      In Your Arms

      Sense

      Touch

      Taste

      Sight

      Smell

      Hear

      A Thousand Words

      A Gift

      To Help Another

      By Candlelight

      Forever

      Empty

      Company

      World Peace

      Believing is Seeing

      The Night Sky

      Every Step

      A Poem

      In this World

      Virtues

      Found Happiness

      Patience

      Rhythm

      Tomorrow

      Yesterday

      Together

      Peace

      The Teacher

      The Composer

      The Composition

      The Clouds

      The Sky

      Why Change

      Children

      To Question

      To Plan

      The Dawn

      The Nightlife

      The Meaning of Life

      Equality

      To Dance

      Water

      Discipline

      Moved to Tears

      Birthday Girl

      Undiscovered

      The Instrument

      The Book

      Half Full

      Snowflake

      The Whale

      Adaptation

      Unpublished

      The Time I Have

      Why Disguise

      Romance

      Embrace

      Gratitude

      The Thread

      Structure

      The Lone Stranger

      As I walk through this life through the valley of pain

      I take a look at my life but what do I gain

      I treat people the same but what do I get

      Nothing but pain and some people fret

      All I am is a lone stranger

      Riding through life to embrace no danger

      Where I go nobody knows

      I appear and hide as the wind blows

      All I ask is for someone to know me

      But all they do is perceive and fear me

      I wonder what is it they fear is it I am humane

      It is true they class me as insane

      They treat me as an outcast but why is that

      It is because they fear me as a matter of fact

      I will disappear but will I return

      Will they want me back is their concern

      The Lonesome Dove

      All I am is a lonesome dove

      Flying high in search of love

      Am I on a journey in search of emotion

      When I find it will it strengthen my devotion

      I soar high I fly low

      Anticipating for love to show

      Will love appear then disappear

      If this is to happen it is my only fear

      I search for love here

      I search for love there

      I am a lonesome dove searching everywhere

      Will it bring me heaven I can never tell

      My heart is empty but I should never dwell

      Life

      Hope

      All

      People

      Perceive

      In

      Needing

      Every

      Social

      Society

      Wonderful people are dear to the heart

      That is why we should never let them drift apart

      For they are always brightening up our days

      For caring for others in unusual ways

      For helping and giving is a good reason for living

      Life is but an endless road

      Always feeling love is a load

      But always perceiving to be yearning

      But never needing to be learning

      The past always has significance

      Since we learn from our own experience

      When will the road appear to finish

      Knowing the knowledge will never diminish

      A woman is merely a flower

      Needing the love of a man to blossom and grow

      Children are merely the seed of life

      Flowing in the wind

      With no significance till they become the flower of life

      Father

      You were there for me always

      But I never realized how much you were

      If anything happened you were there

      Always caring and understanding

      But I never knew why

      You taught me what life meant to you

      Now I know you are gone

      I didn’t realize till it was too late

      To understand is our fate

      You left this world for a better place

      In heaven you are waiting

      Watching over me

      When my life is done

      I shall join you in heaven

      And we shall be together again

      Like father like son

      Love

      Love is the emotion that inspires the soul

      Without it we feel like an empty shell needing something

      But what we need is for love to be truly fulfilled

      Life has many turns but love has one direction

      When you fall in love you fall for the person not the appearance

      But people think What is the difference

      You may find many people attractive

      But you only fall in love with once and continuously falling

      They say that love gives you wings

      It makes you achieve amazing things

      You fly as if you are in heaven

      Never waiting to return but just to be in love

      It is better to love and have lost

      Than to never love at all

      Love is the ultimate power

      It is better to perceive than control

      I’m so Much in Love

      As I sit here writing this to you

      All I do is cry because my love for you is true

      I wonder why is it you do not perceive

      Is it a perfect emotion is hard to believe

      If love is a sin then I am guilty

      Without your love I will always be lonely

      You may think I love you for your appearance

      But I love you for who you are your true essence

      You may ask why I love you so

      Look inside and you will know

      I will love you from first sight until eternity

      Then you will perceive my heart is for you truly

      So here I portray my love to you

      Without your love my life is blue

      My heart beats for you until I die

      My love for you I could never deny

      The Love of a Lonely Man

      As I walk down this road

      Always feeling the heavy load

      Here as my stories told to you my love

      Always thinking you

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