Forest of Words

Roses are sometimes red

Violets are not always blue

Here is a sweet rendition of our love story 

That all began the day I met you 

I’m not perfect 

I have never claimed to be

I’m only the girl that has promised to

Love you for all of eternity

I have sent you every “love” hallmark card in existence halfway across the world to you

Faced every challenge from Ralph, the postman that has ever existed

I learned about even shittier postpeople who live in the US

Learned about corruption from asshats set on lining their pockets and some yummy snacks and maybe a tea; if the request is unbelievably tall, plan to bring dinner along with you and can you believe this unbelievable shit show

I love you through your ups 

I love you even more through your downs

See the best in you always

Remind you to stand up and straighten your crown

I wish you could see yourself as the king you have always been

from halfway across the world, you stole my heart, and I never want it back

I love when you tell me you love me, even more in Urdu. I love that you are patiently sharing and teaching your language to me

love even more you have taught me the curse words as well and remind me gently I don’t have to say those words out loud!

I want to hold your hands each and every day fingers linked in mine

And feel your heart beating next to mine, curl up in your arms and lay my head on your chest listen to all the stories you tell me because when your not next to me sleep never even feels truly like rest

I wander through each day facing the challenges that all seem like mountains

I have waited forever to kiss your lips

And walk through the gates of our life and

happiness one dream at a time!

Mr. Muhammad Umair, my life began when you and I became husband and wife, I love you for ever, for always my everything!

“The Life of Hank Williams” A Musical- Historical- Play Experience created by Theatre Atchison

By Lynn Marie Allen

Lynn is a freelance writer who writes about material and content she is passionate about!

Layne Roate wrote and directed “The Life of Hank Williams.” The current theatre experience is set to hit the stage in Atchison, Kansas, for a limited engagement. The theatre will show the production November 16-19, 2023. There will be nightly 7 pm showings, with Friday, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon showings at 2 pm. The play is a concert/play experience emphasizing the life of Hank Williams. Layne described that he has been with Theatre Atchison for almost a year and is thrilled to have had the creative opportunity to bring Hank Williams, his artistic interpretation of Hank’s history, to life. Layne wrote the screenplay for the current production. Layne shared he is confident that people have been listening to Hank for years, and many didn’t even realize it in this historical and musically relevant interpretation brought to life with three actor portrayals of characters. All the actors have musical and theater experience that breathes the current musical production into life. 

Hank Williams, portrayed by Chris Owen, will also play acoustic guitar in the production. Shelly Verdon portrays Sammy and Mr. Rose. Kameryn Behrend portrays Audrey and Bobby. Layne expressed he is confident that the portrayal by these actors takes his screenplay and makes it even better. Layne shared that the production will feature many of Hanks’s most popular music, such as “Hey Good Looking,” “Jambalaya,” “Honky Tonk Blues,” “Love Sick Blues,” “Your Cheating Heart,” “Lost Highway,” “I Saw the Light,” and “Message To My Mother” to name a few. Layne considers himself a musical storyteller and is privileged to have worked with such fantastic talent in this production. 

Layne shared some of the history surrounding Hank Williams and what brought the story to life for him. Hank is musically talented and recognized by Hanks’s mother, Lillie, very early. Hank got his start in the church chorus. Layne described that Hank was a part of traveling musical troops where his rise to fame began. Layne said that Hank struggled with chronic back pain that would develop into a drug and alcohol dependence. The struggles Hank experienced were not the limelight of Hank’s story but merely a backdrop of the history and relevant facts. In the end, shortly before his very untimely death at 29 years old, Hank had recently completed rehab and passed away in the back seat of his Cadillac on January 1, 1953. Hank had a strong desire to fulfill the realization of his mother, Lillie William’s. Hank will take that added with a personal determination to be the inspiration to share his potential and the human experience. Layne shared he considered it a true privilege to work with actors who could take his screenplay as he described and make it even better. Layne said the story becomes even better when the actors take what he created in his script and breathe the story to life with their effort and inspiration! If you are thirsty for more about the life and musical journey of Hank Williams, then this production will not be something you want to miss! You can purchase tickets in advance online or at the door. 

Stay tuned for more musical history play collaborations from Theatre Atchison January 2024: A musical rendition of the music and journey of Elton John and Billy Joel. March 2024 will be an unauthorized rendition of the cult classic “The Breakfast Club.”

For everyone thirsty for a little more of the history behind Hank, as I was after speaking with Layne, I dug for a little more history. Hank was born Randall Hank Williams on September 23, 1923, in Mount Olive, Alabama. Hank began playing guitar at the age of 8. Hank made his musical debut on the radio at age 13. Hank, who you may not know, had Spina Bifida and was debilitated by the pain. In later life, Hank will develop addictions to morphine and alcohol, probably to manage the pain. Hank died at the age of 29 in the back seat of his powder Blue Cadillac in Oak Hill, West Virginia, on his way to a concert. Hank’s cause of death was a heart attack. Hank is considered one of the leading contributors to music in the twentieth century and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Award (multiple), and entered into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Photographs are the intellectual property of Theatre Atchison Productions.

https://www.atchisonglobenow.com/news/the-life-of-hank-williams-a-musical–historical–play-experience/article_d8075699-e02a-587e-ad67-ac9b49a83241.html

https://www.hiawathaworldonline.com/news/the-life-of-hank-williams-a-musical–historical–play-experience-created-by-theatre/article_045d20f3-0c73-5174-a4de-a460ab837942.html

Photographs are the intellectual property of Muhammad Umair Ch

Start and end each day with a grateful heart! So as I have each and every single day you have made my world, my heart and my soul. Meri pyari Umair Ma tum sa bohaat pyar krti hoooon

Photographs are the intellectual property of Muhammad Umair Ch

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Roses are sometimes red, Violets are not always blue, Another sleepless night again spent tossing and turning all result in a never ending ache longing for you. I reach for the spot in our bed where you’re supposed to be. Countless hours, days, nights and months spent in a stormy sea of anguish that I will never let you see. I have to wear my brave face and fight the battles for you and me. So roses are still sometimes red, violets are not always blue there will never be a single second, minute, hour or eternity where I am not hopelessly in love with you. You, Umair my calm in every storm, my light to show me the way, there will never be enough words only a simple declaration I love you!

It’s 2 am and I can’t get you off my mind. You just text 45 minutes ago to say goodnight and you and I began our dance where you are in day and I am in night!
My brain is overflowing words that I want to express to you, all the ways you melt my heart and draw me closer to you!
More people should have to endure 8778 miles apart and more days than I ever want to count! People need to realize that love is enough! Love is enough to get me through the storm of days and nights but my body shudders and aches to feel you touch me. My heart shatters a little more because the only cure is you next to me. You are my air, my heart and all that I need! You drive me wild and crazy my guram guram special extra spicy blend masala man! My heart and body ache for you, quake for you with a longing only you can fulfill! There are not enough words to properly articulate. That I need your hands to touch my curls and face and shower me with millions of kisses. Let me draw circles on your chest or back when I nuzzle into you in that spot that is mine alone! And for you to whisper softy in my ear through a million delicious kisses “baby it’s only just a tease!” that turns into a volcanic explosion that leaves me weak in the knees!
Each word I have is only an expression of all the words that dance inside my head! I have laid here for hours wishing for sleep because without you next to me in our bed sleep is either too little or too much. And now the words and found their way to paper and you just text good morning and I say I hope you had a beautiful day! My guram guram special extra spicy masala man! There just are not enough words to let you know how much I love and adore you and need you more and more each passing day. So for the time being while 8778 miles are an ever present annoying obstacle I will send up this love letter to the interweb heavens for the entire world to see, the most beautiful love story began the day a spicy Persian Prince captured the heart of a wild copper haired girl and took over the arduous task of taming his brat!

So here are a few things you should know about me. I’m honest to a fault, I love without measure and I try to walk gently through this world. I try to sparkle more than I hurt anyone or anything. I have more puppies than I should with the top being my Oliver who has seizures and was a premie. I give to literally EVERYONE and never take for myself! I have EVERY single day LOVED, ADORED and treasured my husband, Umair. You can be absolutely certain I have fought battles loving Umair that no-one will ever know and most of them came from FAMILY!!

I have would and will give up EVERYTHING for Umair! I love Umair and he is my AIR. Umair has often said life easier before HIM! The simple facts is that UMAIR loved me to life! A life I had never lived! My life simply was empty before him! I am not rich, far from it because if I was I would have been in Pakistan by his side everyday while I proved to the world what’s real!

I have listened to countless immigration attorneys laugh in my face about our age gap and the country he is from the embassy will rip him to shreds you need time to prove you’re real. Let me tell you how real I am. I have fought battles with my family harder than immigration trying to prove we are REAL. Let me ask you this when people in the same country want to be together where are the relationship police to say whether or not it’s real?

I may not have much in this world in fact less than much but it’s all entirely for him! Umair loved me back to life and the reality is life wasn’t easier before him it was shallow, empty and hollow! And I’m sorry I didn’t shout it out before! Because the burdens of the world is that people who are right next to you will take all you have and more without a single regret! I don’t care what people think or say I would walk through fire every single day to be by his side! There is nothing and no one on this planet who has ever made me feel more safe, loved and protected or alive! So if you get the chance to love and be loved take it over stupid random bullshit because I can tell you the payout is so much more than you would or could possibly ever imagine!

Forever! For Always, my heart, my everything is YOURS Umair!

I am a girl who never had much but gave all that I have and more. I have a lifetime full of empty pockets is what the naked eye might see. But I have a pocket full of silly, sweet wishes, ones I always carry with me! A pocket of treasures that are priceless to me!

Two love letters from my shohar, Umair, your broken zipper and your expired passport and a lifetime of wishes. That combined with my scarfs and beautiful ricksha, my heart is overflowing with love for the man I adore. And now forever etched in ink or digital print a love story that can never be erased! I am off to forever and a place where wishes and magical dreams can safely be etched in ink for the entire world to see!

a couple favorites of Umair and Lynn

Photograph by Muhammad Umair Ch

Once upon a time in an entirely random and imperfect world there lived an entirely ordinary and imperfect girl.

As it so happens as this particular story goes, the girl fell in love with a man. His name is Umair and there has never been a day he has not taken the girls breath away and she is overwhelmed by the sea of emotions and love that only seems to deepen and grow stronger with each passing day.

This man, Umair could not be more different from anyone she has ever known. He just happens to live on the other side of the planet a simple fact that shreds the girls heart to pieces a little more each day!

It was recklessly cruel to throw up so many obstacles to keep these two apart. All they have ever wanted is to spend their days and nights lost in each others arms!

Away from the cruelty of the world the girl spends her days and nights wishing to be captured in the strength of Umairs arms where she can nuzzle that spot entirely hers alone! And for all the bullshit that separates the two to just stop!

Once upon a star struck daydreamers dreams a girl longs for and aches for this man. Each night as she longed for him more and more she would race to her dreams, race to the place where a ocean of sadness separated by miles and obligations didn’t threaten to blow out the candle on all her hopes and dreams. To run and find the safety in the night where Umair is oblivious and unaware of the circles she draws on his back. Fluttering him softly with thousands of kisses and wishes he will never know were placed. Each and every one of them filled with love and hope for the life where these two can be together dreams of paradise and a place in the world for Umair and Lynn.

Once upon a star struck dream my wishes are reality.

When I say I’m gonna love you until forever it’s just not long enough Umair