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11/18/10

ME

I woke up late last night to a celebrity talk show.  I won't  mention the person's name.  There was a mother of an "adopted" child on the show who brought video proof, who admitted freely that she was abusive to her "adoptive" child, who everyone there reviled and could not find any excuse for this horrific abuse.

Who by the end of the show was going to get the help she called the show for, who walked off that stage, out those doors, back home to a child, who if he ever had any hope did not anymore.

I don't know about the host, but as for me I wondered how many laws in childrens names do we need, before people see, are we now going to need one dealing with talk shows and celebrities.  How many watched this show, including me, who should have picked up the phone and called the police.  How many are sworn by the laws they uphold, turned their backs on this child and his need.  How can they close their eyes at night without seeing the battered faces of children in their dreams.

This is for those children, the ones who for a brief moment might have believed if it was shown on t.v. maybe there could still be hope for...

ME

I DON'T
  BELIEVE
IN
FAIRY TALES

FOR YOU
SEE
I
LIVE IN
THE REALITY

THAT THERE
IS NO
KNIGHT IN SHINING
ARMOUR

WHO WILL
RESCUE
ME

AS THE
FAIRY TALES
WOULD
HAVE ME
BELIEVE!

THE ONLY
ONE
I
CAN COUNT
ON
FOR
RESCUE
IS
ME

I
WATCHED YOUR
SHOW

WITH JUST
A GLIMMER
OF HOPE

AFRAID
TO
LET GO

 AFRAID
TO
BELIEVE

ONLY TO
HAVE
THIS LAST
GLIMMER
OF HOPE
CRUSHED
BENEATH YOUR
FEET

YOUR SHOW
MAY HAVE BEEN
ABOUT A
DIFFERENT PARENT,
A DIFFERNT
CHILD

BUT WHEN
THIS
ABUSER
WALKED OFF
YOUR STAGE
FREE....

WHAT YOU
DID
NOT SEE
WAS

ME

10/11/10

JACK'S PLACE

DAY AFTER DAY
THEY WOULD CHAIN
HIM OUT THEIR
BACK DOOR

I MADE FRIENDS
WITH HIM THERE
THIS DOG WHO
HAD BECAME
A CHORE

TO BUSY TO WALK
HIM, NO TIME
FOR HIM ANYMORE

UNTIL ONE NIGHT
HE ESCAPED
THEM
AND I HOPE
HE'S SAFE IN
HIS NEW FOUND
FREEDOM

BUT
TODAY AS MY DOG
AND I WALKED
BACK INTO OUR
HOUSE

I SAW THE CUTE
LITTLE PUPPY
THAT THEY HAD
TAKEN EVERYWHERE
SCRATCHING
AT THE
DOOR
BEGGING TO BE
LET IN

AND IT OCCURRED
TO ME
THAT THROUGH NO
FAULT OF HER
OWN
SHE TO HAD BECOME
A CHORE

ONE
THEY WERE TO
BUSY FOR

THAT SHE HAD
TAKEN

JACK'S PLACE

I AM CONFUSED




IT'S FUNNY
HOW SOME CAN
LOOK AT A
LUMP OF COAL
AND SEE THE
DIAMOND
SHINING BRIGHTLY
WITHIN

WHILE
 OTHERS SEE
A
DIAMOND
AND ARE
BLINDED BY IT'S
BEAUTY

FORGETTING THE
LUMP OF COAL
FROM WHICH
IT
BEGAN
*****************************************************************


AUTHOR NOTE

THESE WORDS RAGED
INTO MY BRAIN
THEY DEMANDED A
A SPOT, A PLACE
ON MY
PAGE

I TRIED TO DENY
THEM
FOR THESE WORDS
I
DON'T
UNDERSTAND

AND SHUOLDN'T
THE AUTHOR
AT LEAST
UNDERSTAND THE
WORDS THAT
POUR ON TO
THEIR PAGE
THROUGH THEIR
OWN HAND???

10/2/10

LEGACY - AFTER THOUGHTS

As I was washing dishes this evening, my thoughts took flight, as my thoughts often do, while performing mundane chores (shades of Piers Anthony)

My mind turned to the lovely comments posted on my Blog post "Legacy" and how touched I felt that this person was not only kind enough to comment, but that she "got me". I do realize that to a lot of people I appear hard to understand, I coined a phrase that I feel suits me best "I am like a chameleon caught in a kaleidoscope" still working on that blog.


As my mind revisited her words I thought also of another kind woman whose visit and comments brought pleasure to me and how someday my child and grandchildren will one day view these also. It occurred to me that these and all future people who comment will become a part of this legacy I leave.

I just wanted to say again Thank you, it makes me proud that my loved ones will one day find you as well and that I can be proud of the choices I made in the people whose words and lives I enjoy and admire.

The pictures are of my 4 beauties, My daughter, her 4 year old twins, and my rose between the thorns who is 3. By the end of the year I will be blessed with another set of twin girls.

10/1/10

LEGACY

MY WORDS
*
ARE NOT
AND
HAVE NEVER
BEEN
ABOUT YOU
*
THEY HAVE
AND
ALWAYS WILL BE
ABOUT ME!
*
A
SAFE HAVEN
*
A
PLACE I CAN
LAY
MY HURTS
MY ANGER
TO REST
*
A
PLACE TO SHARE
MY JOY
MY LOVE
MY PEACE
*
SO IF YOU
COME HERE
TO RELIVE
YOUR PAST
*
YOU WON'T
FIND IT
HERE
*
MY HOPE IS
SOMEDAY
MY DAUGHTER
HER CHILDREN
AND
THEIRS
*
WHEN I
HAVE
BEEN LONG GONE
*
DEPARTED
FROM THIS
EARTH
*
THAT THEY
WILL
FIND ME HERE
*
MY LEGACY
*
MY WORDS
**

8/11/10

August 11, 2010

DREAM
*
*
*
I JUST AWOKE
FROM A DREAM
OF YOU
*
YOUR KISS
STILL
LINGERS ON
MY LIPS
*
WE WERE YOUNG
ONCE AGAIN
LAUGHING, LOVING
ENJOYING EACH
OTHER
*
HOW STRANGE
AFTER ALL
THESE
YEARS
*
ALL THE MEN
I'VE KNOWN
AND
LOVED
*
YOURS IS THE
ONLY
SCENT
I
REMEMBER
*
THE ONLY
KISS
I CAN STILL
TASTE
*
THE ONLY
FACE
I HAVE NOT
FORGOTTEN
*
THE ONLY MAN
I
DREAM
OF

7/26/10

EULOGY FOR THE LIVING

Bet you never thought
I'd get around to you!
*
You are fixin to roar with
laughter if I know you
*
When this started
meandering through
my mind
*
My first thought was
why do we wait
to sing someones
praise?
*
Until we are reading
their eulogy
ready to put them in
their grave!
*
Sorry!
*
And no
you are not ready for
the grave.
*
There's still my
sisters
honey-do list
and whatever
I can add
to increase your
days!
*
I just don't want to be
one of those people
you see.
*
I want to tell you
as I have
before
that you are a
Brother-In-Law
*
I adore!
*
Not for the million
and one
things you've done
for my daughter
and me
*
Not
for the patience you've
shown through
lifes trials and
tribulations
as children(Hers, yours and
does anyone else
want thems)
have grown
*
I want you to
know
*
You are a
Brother-In-Law
to be adored
*
For the tears
you cried
*
The agony you
endured
*
When for that
brief moment in time
*
When
my sister died
and you did not
know how you
could have lived
without her
*
I will never forget
the love you felt
the relief you
had for
*
your wife
*
your life
*
I love you
because you
are the man
who loves
my sister
*
so much
*
so well!.