Chains

People seeing what they want to see,
Regardless of fact or truth,
Not caring what the damage might be.

Blindly chanting someone else's refrain,
Never asking for the proof,
Listening to the media's mad strains.

Honor, Duty, Country they disdain,
Better a One World order they hoot,
Knee jerk reaction that is plain.

Lie, steal, cheat with half true claims,
Anything to empower their group,
Never thinking to find themselves in chains.

In a heart beat it can change,
From freedom to slavery in a bloodless coup,
Led by the ones that pulled their strings.

Power is what's to gain,
Never stopping to think who,
Will suffer the pain.

"It can't happen," they exclaim,
To blind to see the boot,
Not even aware of the game.

Democracy is work it's plain,
Some would rather play the fool,
Whining when things don't go their way.

Proudly they hammer their own chains.

© YEAR - xxxx Author - Unknown

Daddy's Poem

Her hair was up in a pony tail,
Her favorite dress tied with a bow.
Today was Daddy's Day at school,
And she couldn't wait to go.
But her mommy tried to tell her,
That she probably should stay home
Why the kids might not understand,
If she went to school alone.
But she was not afraid;
She knew just what to say.
What to tell her classmates
Of why he wasn't there today.
But still her mother worried,
For her to face this day alone.
And that was why once again,
She tried to keep her daughter home.
But the little girl went to school
Eager to tell them all.
About a dad she never sees a dad
Who never calls.
There were daddies along the wall in
Back, for everyone to meet.
Children squirming impatiently,
Anxious in their seats.
One by one the teacher called
A student from the class.
To introduce their daddy,
As seconds slowly passed.
At last the teacher called her name,
Every child turned to stare.
Each of them was searching,
A man who wasn't there.
"Where's her daddy at?"
She heard a boy call out.
"She probably doesn't have one,"
Another student dared to shout.
And from somewhere near the back,
She heard a daddy say,
"Looks like another deadbeat dad,
Too busy to waste his day."
The words did not offend her,
As she smiled up at her Mom.
And looked back at her teacher, who
Told her to go on.
And with hands behind her back,
Slowly she began to speak.
And out from the mouth of a child,
Came words incredibly unique.
"My Daddy couldn't be here,
Because he lives so far away.
But I know he wishes he could be,
Since this is such a special day.
And though you cannot meet him,
I wanted you to know.
All about my daddy,
And how much he loves me so.
He loved to tell me stories
He taught me to ride my bike.
He surprised me with pink roses,
And taught me to fly a kite.
We used to share fudge sundaes,
And ice cream in a cone.
And though you cannot see him.
I'm not standing here alone.
"Cause my daddy's always with me,
Even though we are apart
I know because he told me,
He'll forever be in my heart"
With that, her little hand reached up,
And lay across her chest.
Feeling her own heartbeat,
Beneath her favorite dress.
And from somewhere there in the crowd
Of dads, her mother stood in tears.
Proudly watching her daughter,
Who was wise beyond her years.
For she stood up for the love
Of a man not in her life.
Doing what was best for her,
Doing what was a right.
And when she dropped her hand back
Down, staring straight into the crowd.
She finished with a voice so soft,
But its message clear and loud.
"I love my daddy very much,
he's my shining star.
And if he could, he'd be here,
But heaven's just too far.
You see he is an American Soldier
And died just this past year
When a roadside bomb hit his convoy
And taught Americans to fear.
But sometimes when I close my eyes,
it's like he never went away."
And then she closed her eyes,
And saw him there that day.
And to her mother's amazement,
She witnessed with surprise.
A room full of daddies and children,
All starting to close their eyes.
Who knows what they saw before them,
Who knows what they felt inside.
Perhaps for merely a second,
They saw him at her side.
"I know you're with me Daddy,"
To the silence she called out.
And what happened next made believers,
Of those once filled with doubt.
Not one in that room could explain it,
For each of their eyes had been closed.
But there on the desk beside her,
Was a fragrant long-stemmed pink rose.
And a child was blessed, if only for
A moment, by the love of her shining star.
And given the gift of believing,
That heaven is never too far.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.
Send this to the people you'll never forget and remember to send it also to the person that sent it to you. It's a short message to let them know that you'll never forget them.


Take the time...to live and love.
Until eternity..
God Bless


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© YEAR - unknown Author - unknown

The Parable of the Old Man and the Young

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and strops,
And builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretched forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Wilfred Owens ~ WWI British Poet

Girl on a Bed

A clear and shining Jewel
on the petal of a pure peach-colored flower,
drifting precariously on an uncertain stream
above the sparkling ripples
that carry her courageously to unknown ends -
She loves me...

The depth below is scary though.
One slip and she could fall under,
lost, beyond my reach forever,
leaving an empty petal,
drifting down the stream alone -
She loves me not...

A. J. M.

*What Made Me Me*

Long ago and far away,
In a land that time forgot,
Before the days of Dylan,
Or the dawn of Camelot.
There lived a race of innocents,
And they were you and me,
Long ago and far away
In the Land That Made Me Me.

Oh, there was truth and goodness
In that land where we were born,
Where navels were for oranges,
And Peyton Place was porn.
For Ike was in the White House,
And Hoss was on TV,
And God was in His heaven
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We learned to gut a muffler,
We washed our hair at dawn,
We spread our crinolines to dry
In circles on the lawn.
And they could hear us coming
All the way to Tennessee,
All starched and sprayed and rumbling
in the Land That Made Me Me.

We longed for love and romance,
And waited for the prince,
And Eddie Fisher married Liz,
And no one's seen him since.
We danced to "Little Darlin'",
And Sang to "Stagger Lee"
And cried for Buddy Holly
In the Land That Made Me Me.

Only girls wore earrings then,
And three was one too many,
And only boys wore flat-top cuts,
Except for Jean McKinney.
And only in our wildest dreams
Did we expect to see
A boy named George, with Lipstick
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We fell for Frankie Avalon,
Annette was oh, so nice,
And when they made a movie,
They never made it twice.
We didn't have a Star Trek Five,
Or Psycho Two and Three,
Or Rockey-Rambo Twenty
In the Land That Made Me Me.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold,
And Chester had a limp,
And Reagan was a Democrat
Whose co-star was a chimp.
We had a Mr Wizard,
But not a Mr T,
And Oprah couldn't talk, yet
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We had our share of heroes,
We never thought they'd go,
At least not Bobby Darin,
Or Marilyn Monroe.
For youth was still eternal,
And life was yet to be,
And Elvis was forever,
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We'd never seen the rock band
That was Grateful to be Dead,
And Airplanes weren't named Jefferson,
And Zeppelins weren't Led.
And Beatles lived in gardens then,
And Monkees in a tree,
Madonna was a virgin
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We'd never heard of Microwaves,
Or telephones in cars,
And babies might be bottle-fed,
But they weren't grown in jars.
And pumping iron got wrinkles out,
And "gay" meant fancy-free,
And dorms were never coed
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We hadn't seen enough of jets
To talk about the lag,
And microchips were what was left at
The bottom of the bag.
And Hardware was a box of nails,
And bytes came from a flea
And rocket ships were fiction
In the Land That Made Me Me.

Buicks came with portholes,
And side show came with freaks
and bathing suits came big enough
To cover both your cheeks.
And Coke came just in bottles,
And skirts came to the knee,
And Castro came to power
In the Land That Made Me Me.

We had no Crest with Fluoride,
We had no Hill Street Blues,
We all wore superstructure bras
Designed by Howard Hughes.
We had no patterned pantyhose
Or Lipton herbal tea
Or prime-time ads for condoms
In the Land That Made Me Me.

There were no golden arches,
No Perrier to chill,
And fish were not called Wanda,
And cats were not called Bill.
And middle-aged was thirty-five
And old was forty-three,
And ancient were our parents
In the land that made me me.

But all things have a season,
Or so we've heard them say,
And now instead of Maybelline
We swear by Retin-A.
And they send us invitations
To join AARP,
We've come a long way, baby,
From the Land That Made Me Me.

So now we face a brave new world
In slightly larger jeans,
And wonder why they're using
Smaller print in magazines.
And we tell our children's children
of the way it used to be,
Long ago, and far away
In the Land That Made Me Me.


--
You make your own reality - - - - How is your reality today?

© YEAR - 2008 Author NAME and/or INITIALS UNKNOWN

Junior

John Mellencamp has a way with words. This may be from 1993 but he could be singing about today.


They call me Junior
I live here on the street
I earn two hundred dollars a week
I'd like to say
"Hey, thanks a lot"
I know I'm missin' something
But I don't know what it is
That I don't got

I sit here watchin'
The people down below
I try to imagine
The places they may go
I don't know
I stay home a lot
I know I'm missin' something
But I don't know what it is
That I don't got

CHORUS:
I see the world through the TV Guide
What a safe place for me to run
What a small little man I am
I'm afraid of everything
From golden rules to airplanes
What a small little man I am

They call me Junior
I'm caught up in this hell
Sometimes I feel better
But I never do feel well.
Jesus must have one hell of a plan for me
I know I'm missin' something
But I don't know what it is
That I don't got

And if I have anything to say
About judgement day
There'll be a crown in heaven
For those who live this way
Anyway
You know exactly who you are

CHORUS:
I see the world through the TV Guide
What a safe place for me to run
What a small little man I am
I'm afraid of everything
From the golden rule to airplanes
What a small little man I am

They call me Junior
I live here on the street
I earn two hundred dollars a week
I'd like to say
"Hey man, thanks a lot"
My name is Junior

CHORUS:
I see the world through the TV Guide
What a safe place for me to run
What a small little man I am
I'm afraid of everything
From the golden rule to airplanes
What a small little man I am

Burden

I cannot weep, for all my body's moisture
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heart.

Nor can my tongue unload my hearts great burden,
For self-same winds that I should speak with,
Is kindling coals that fire all my breast,
And burn me up with flames that tears would quench.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief...
Tears then for my precious daughter and wife,
Blows the only revenge within me.

© 1992 - 2008 R. G. J.

How I Remember You

Sitting here in this room
Feelin sad and blue
Lookin upon these faded colors
Nothin feels true

But while I sit here
and wonder why
Things Past come to me
And make me cry

But here i sit
And think of you
I lose all my colors
Of feelin sad and blue

You help me feel
A natural high
Remembering our times my love
I could reach-out and touch the sky

Yes, for a short time
I learned how to fly

© 1992 - 2008 R. G. J.

Myself

I can scream as loud as I want.
I can scream out obscenities and no one will hear.
The cage is soundproof and no one can hear me.
I want to be heard!
I want to tell the truth!
The cage is too strong and I am too weak
I can see you, but you can't see me.
There is no one good point about this situation,
You can't hurt me!
You can beat, scratch, hit, bite...Anything,
But you can't hurt me.
It's so fun to hide.
No one knows who I really am.
I don't even know who I really am.
Why am I here?
Tell me!!
Why am I here?!
I want out, but I don't want you to hurt me.
Why do you do this to me?
Why can't I be set free?
Why can't I, be me?

The Enlightenment

Sleep comes not.
Eyelids grow heavy.
Still the mind plots.
I must have her.

She - the elusive Elk,
Prancing around the edges,
Dancing under cover.
Twirling, laughing gleefully.

I - the tired hunter,
Beckoning, pleading, enticing,
Drawing her nearer,
Closer to the flame.

Shadows from the forest hide her.
Memories of the past
Providing comforting cover,
Yet leading slowly awry.

She teases, slips away,
Wary, enticed.
Daring to draw nearer,
Curious, she watches.

Pauses, uncertain,
Edging closer still.
Come and be mine.
Almost within my grasp.

Perhaps the triumph finally mine.
Patience, stillness.
Gently, silently, slowly,
Our eyes meet, gazing intently.

She bolts into the shadows.
I follow stealthily.
Flitting from shadow to shadow,
Closer still I draw.

The chase begins;
I lag behind. But who chases whom?
Appearances obvious,
Yet masqued in darkness.

She is the meat of my dreams.
I must hold her,
Taste her charms,
Join our two into one.

Each night the same endless flight,
Closer, carefully proceeding,
Only to dart away.
So close, yet so far away.

She leads for the joy of the chase.
Persistently, unerringly she goes,
Every move calculated.
I weary, slow the pace.

Unable to continue, I doze.
Lightly I percieve.
Exhaustion sets in,
I slumber, heavily.

I awaken at first light,
Her scent permeating me.
Startled, I find her
Curled in my arms.

Snuggled in comfort, protection,
Warmth, two into one.
Happiness, hope renewed,
Nestled securely, unafraid.

She knowingly smiles,
Love radiating from glimmering eyes.
A beaming smile, deep,
From within the soul.

The glow erupts, brilliance.
Love blooms and grows.
Sunshine pales
Her beauty magnificent.

The chase has ended??

© 1990 - 2008 Tarnsman - G.H.P.