Footprints

If you are one who must meander
Through life to seek your goals
Small steps are what you need to make
To realize your roles

If you rush about and try things
Just to fail and then succeed
The steps you make are far apart
As you find just what you need

Whatever steps you decide to take
Make them all your own
Because when you walk in somkeone else's
Your seeds are never sown
Marian

July 20, 2009

Golden yYears Limbo

Golden Years Limbo

The old couple sat wiith their hands clasped

With each other's lovingly

Wondering what became of their dreams,

Who they are, and where they wanted to be

"We worked very hard and spent money quickly

Never bothering to think there would come a day

That someday it would all be gone

And we'd have to wait our life away"

"Our dreams became reality

Much sooner than we planned

And we let it run so quickly

in an hourglass of sand"

"We tried to make a lifetime

Of dreams for us come true

But forgot about our golden years

And time for just me and you"

"Fancy cars and trendy clothes

Were the order of each day

Our children had the very best

For school and for play"

"But time passed quickly and pennies were spent

From our trusty savings jar

Too late for us to realize

What's left just won't go far"

"Now the children are gone and doing

The things we taught them well

Spend all you can on things you want

Don't even sit a spell"

"Here we sit alone and broke

Mortgaged head to toe

Our dream became a nightmare

Far too long before we go"

Marian

July 18, 2009

Welcome friends

Every once in a while I reflect on the people around me and what good friends I have. I just want to take this moment to say thank to all of you who have let me call you a friend!

Marian

The Gift

The Gift

It came to me on a gloomy day
When all my hope had gone away
A bouquette of flowers so carefully arranged
I smiled at thought it was wonderfully strange

I had pondered on my dreadful past
And thought of choices that I'd amassed
My future now was at my command
as I wandered across the rain soaked sand

I looked out to sea and thought I could
Then at the flowers, wondering if I should
Something was coming over me
That for a minute set my mind at ease

I took a flower from the ribbons entwined
And wondered who had been so kind
To leave these on my front gate post
knowing that is from where I walked the most

I picked each pettal and tossed it into the wind
Asking for answers from deep within
Someone cared enough for me
To set these flowers for me to see

I took a breath of ocean air
And squeezed the water from my rain soaked hair
I turned and began to walk away
I'd live to see another day

Marian
July 16, 2009

Believe Me, Patriotism Is Still There

It was all about the horror
When the planes came crashing in
As people's hearts found compassion
Above the violent din

It was all about the patriots
As reality had set in
Aboard a doomed and hi-jacked plane
where their choice would do them in

It was all about the love
for others that had to win
On that fateful day called 9-1-1
When the planes came crashing in

It was all about the bravery
of women and of men
Who made sacrifices on that day
Of the terrorists' mighty sin

It was all about the comfort
Given families within
The circles of those lost that day
When the planes came crashing in

It was all about togetherness
when 9-1-2 was ushered in
And Americans showed their own true colors
and new hope was to begin

To find the aura of patriotism
You only need to look within
And find just what was in your heart
The day the planes came crashing in

Marian
July 16, 2009

I know we have it within ourselves to find our patriotism and loved for our country. We need not have to look so far back in history to find it. We lived to see what kind of people we were on that fateful day on September 11, when the planes came crashing in.

Live Each Day

Live Each Day

As days go by and turn to months
You are only who you live to be
You can live your days locked up in chains
Or live them to be free

As months go by and turn to years
Changes for you become few
For each hour and day that passes
It'll be one less day for you

As spring blends into summer
Summer surrenders to the fall
Then winter with her icey hands
Leaves you no time at all

Marian
July 9, 2009

My Apathy Part Three

So here I am in my late fifties, retired, and fighting the typical health problems that come with age. I have worked, been a law abiding citizen, and for the most part a good friend and family member. I have what I thought would be a comfortable pension, as does my husband, yet we are fighting to make ends meet. Why? Because our health care premiums have gone up. the deductibles have skyrocketed, and the co-pays increased significantly. Now the current administration is pushing for a government funded health care plan so those who are uninsured will have insurance. This is totally off the wall as far as I can comprehend. I will continue to pay astronomical costs for my health care and be strapped paying the bills that are not covered while my tax dollars pay for free health care for anyone who doesn't buy their own. Now where does that make sense on any planet other than ours? People who cannot afford health care are already treated if they cannot pay. The government already has programs in place for anyone who does not have health insurance. It is called welfare, medicare, and medicaid. Now we are expected to put our children's future in further debt by creating another government funded program or nationalizing medical care. Health care reform needs to address the problems within the private health care system, capping awards for civil suits, reducing premiums to make health care more affordable to everyone, regulating the fact people are denied treatment, and reducing co-pays and deductibles.

But my life long apathy is to blame for the problems facing our country today. Had I spoken sooner and often, as well as millions of other Americans just like me, perhaps government would not have grown into the monster it has become. Democrats and republicans alike have turned our Republic into a caricature of itself.

No longer are our Representatives serving "We the People", they are feeding their own greed with pork laden agendas designed to make their lives more comfortable. They have spent this country into a corner where there will be no way to ever balance a budget again. Had we done that with our own checkbooks we would be sitting in prison right now.

This is why I am sending this to my friends. You will see now how I am taking a stand for my freedom and liberty. I can no longer remain silent for fear I may rock the boat or cause someone to think ill of me because I may see politics a different way. No, I haven't lost my mind, I have found it. I have also found the courage to use my freedom of speech. It is time to sever our ties from the likes of democrats and republicans who hold a monopoly on our future and no longer are representing their constituents.

Your friend in liberty and Independence,

Marian Beatty