Sometimes you meet someone or work with someone who is so special that they have an everlasting influence on your life...

I have had the pleasure and the heartache of meeting and working with such a person...

She has made such an impression on my life that I wrote a poem for her...

A Precious Stone

A precious stone is hard to find
To unknowing eyes it it bears no mind...
A rock, a stone can be thrown away
But when polished, it sparkles all day...

A precious stone is hard to lose
It hurts inside to hear your news.
When all is lost and gone before
The precious stone is here no more...

A precious stone is like a butterfly
A beat of wing can change the sky...
It seems that life is one long test
Best be thankful for knowing the best.

A precious stone is God's great gift
To know it once is not enough...
When found and lost in one short time
It leaves a void forever gone.

A precious stone, a butterfly
Flaps it's wings to say goodbye...
Leaving now for another place
I thank the Lord for knowing her face.

To my friend Chevis,

from Bill