Thursday, October 1, 2009

Poems from 2006

1.

Who sees the roles that we play on each other

Who knows how to be their own way

Who seldom reviews how it used to get done

Who plays the role of the fool.

2.

I have my family to protect

With my fortune and

My soul to protect

With my beliefs, but what if,

Someone were to come up to me

And ask about my neighbor

Across the street.

3.

Are we inside a religious ideology

battle of the minds, will, and spirits

Or, are we simply receiving our just

rewards from God for being

For being the type of society that

merits His displeasures. Do, we think

as a group of Sunday School

Christians, we can stand up

To those who are determined to

actually die for their beliefs, or do

We think as modern Christians that

our way of life is not at stake.

4.

Bring me down to your level

If you will and explain it to me

As though I were not as smart as you,

Because in so doing, you will

Teach yourself how to be.

5.

My eyes are fixed upon a goal that

Was written down for me long ago,

But, what if I fail in my attempts

To be all that I can be and need

To ask for a little forgiveness.

6.

Desires reach into my subconscious

Pushing or pulling me into a direction

Where I am not sure that I want to be,

But, one that I nonetheless find extremely

Interesting because it is one never to be

fully attained by me, as it is only a game.

7.

What are my goals for the future

Other than to survive my job…

Do I want to accomplish something

great or wonderful that will live on after-

wards, or do I just want to provide for she

who has decided to be with me through

the ups and downs of my ending career.

8.

I am not the one who will get to the top of the ladder

In this world of corporate American politics, as I do

not seem to have the killer, lying instincts of those

who have actually come before me in their pursuits

to control this life instead of the for which they will die.

9.

It is difficult not to dislike

The lady with whom I live

As her thoughts drift only

To those with whom she

Does not have to live.

10.

If it were not for all the errands that

She is willing to do and those big

Breasts of hers, I am not sure how

Much I would want to share my life

With someone so selfish towards me

That she daily seems to really be.

11.

My life with you has been challenging

And the more it seems that I convey my

Worries that you will find another, the

More you withdraw your love for me

Making me wonder even more about

You finding another man more suitable

12.

You have no respect for me or so it seems, yet,

you also seem to want me in your life; So, I

wonder if it is just to control me with Your will

and persistence until you get exactly what it is
that you want and, I just happen to be in the
wrong place at the right time in your life for what
you needed, and that love has nothing to do with it.

13.

There is no one in the tunnel

No one minding the store

No one tending to the mental

Events for who I am today.

14.

Will we have peace in my lifetime

Or is peace an illusion…

And, what is the essence of peace

So that we will know it when it arrives…

Is it peace on earth, good will towards

all men or an ending of all wars and an

Acceptance of all peoples regardless of

Lifestyles, politics, or religious ideologies.

15.

Are you sexual in nature

Do you have what it takes to

Do whatever it is that I want to do,

Or are you molded in your

Beliefs to respond to that

Which is normal and true?

16.

All of my years seem to collide with

Each other in this stage and age in my life,

and I am left without aany understandings

or beliefs as to what truth as we want to

know it today, really means to us.

17.

What is the Kingdom of God, is a recent question

that has been asked of me, and I am not sure how

To answer that question even if I knew the answer…

Is it an actual place, or simply a state of mind, or

is it where the spirit, our essence, goes once all life

And blood has been drained out of our bodies?

Can we have this Kingdom while we are alive?

Does this Kingdom live inside each and every one

Of us, but we just don't know how to access it?

18.

Can you tell me how I should really

Live my life, or will you tell me how

You think I should really live my life,

Because I want you to know I know.

19.

Are you willing to

Claim my thoughts as your own or

Do you have your own?

20.

Do you struggle with the truth as I have done

all my life or do you simply accept what others

may tell you as the truth that they think or

believe should be your truth?

Do you understand the nature of thought and

how one should formulate one's own beliefs

is one is to be truly free to accept or reject

the nature of God's Will on Earth?

21.

Where does it say that I have to live

My life as you would want me to;

Where does it say that I can only be

Like you if I am to stay with you, and

If this was your nature, why did you

Not tell me at the very beginning?

22.

I can see that you believe that my

Life, desires, wants, and needs,

Should subordinate themselves to

Whatever it is that you want, simply

Because you think that it should.

23.

Can you not love me

If I do not live my life

As you want me to.

24.

You do not take the time to notice me

As you once noticed me when we were

First together and you were trying to

Steal me away from my wife, my dear.

25.

Am I the only one who really cares

About the future of this country, or,

Are there others, who want to protect

Our way of life, not just for now, but

Our children, their children and all

Of the generations that will follow.

26.

What is wrong with Lesbian/Gay

Couples other than what we think

is stated in the Bible…

And, is it against these unions

because they are wrong or simply

because they negate the

perpetuation of the human race.

27.

It is ironic in a way that those

Who are violently against something

Somehow easily change their minds

When the something that they

Are against happens to them.

28.

God has made it possible for me

To be who I am today and seems

To be carefully orchestrating the

Direction that I take presently.

29.

Do your thoughts coincide with mine or do they

Mingle somewhere else in space and time…

Do they see the future or are they still trying to

Predict and explain the past as they think it should be

Based upon their interpretation of what God wants.

30.

I look towards you to be my source of inspiration

I look towards you to be my guiding light

I look towards you to be my strength of will

I look towards you to guide me to my rebirth.

31.

Why do you bestow your

grace upon me when there

are others more deserving?

I am not worth the time

even though I am trying,

so open the door to them

and allow them to move

into your light.

32.

My life has almost lived out its usefulness

At least in my first career attempt and

My retirement should offer me my second

Attempt that will lay the foundation and

Prepare me for my life after death.

33.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder

Or in the soundness of reality, as

Long as what we perceive as reality

Is all that we think it is and not

Simply another illusion through

Which we all must eventually pass.

34.

Is today the day where half the month

Has passed beneath our view and grasp

And now we must hurry forth if we are

To put purpose into the second half.

35.

Can you give me back

What I gave to you a

Few years back, or do

You think my love was

Yours to keep forever.

36.

In the task ahead, our purpose can only be

Offset by the progress that we are making

Not by the failures that we have discarded.

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