The words within these pages, in a warm and gentle way, reveal the emotions that govern our everyday lives. The poems echo new love, lost love, sadness, regret, and the need we all feel to connect with another. After love comes and goes, we are left with loneliness, and in its midst, there is always hope - the awakening that a new love can bring. Ms. Schroeder, in this first book of poetry, has communicated what all of us feel. *These poems are universal and it is my hope that the reader can relate to them and come along with me on this journey we call life.