QUOTE
America will never be destroyed by the outside. If we falter and loose our freedoms, it will be because we've destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865
From Within
Ride on the wagon sound asleep
Leave the journey to the beasts in harness
Are you so certain that the course they will keep
Will bring you home in earnest?
Leave the map, take no direction
Use your memory to find your way
What will happen if you don't ask questions?
With your liberty you might pay
Live your life in trust of others
Accept the laws they make at their will
Turn your back on your founding fathers
You'll find your enemies on Capitol Hill
Say what you must about the countries against us
But they are not the ones to fear
Your freedom will be lost by those you trust
You thought you'd never see it happening here
Marian
May 16, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Tell Us Your Plans
QUOTE
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists---to protect them and to promote their common welfare, all else is lost.
Barack Obama
Tell Me Your Plans
How does this president interpret the role
His Government was created to play?
It was not in place to save every soul
Micromanage their every waking day
It exists to protect us but not to neglect us
The People who contribute their part
It is not to enable those not willing to work
Who have taken entitlements to an art
It was meant to represent us, our will to proceed
Not to regulate our every waking hour
It was not to endebt us, and totally bind us
To the maximum of their taxable power
Dear Mr. Obama, I ask you this question
In all of my sincerity
Is it your idea that your hope for transformation
Is to collapse our capitalists society?
Do you want us encumbered, liberties now numbered
Like birds in a nest waiting to be fed?
Is you social justice that you want thrust upon us
Based on entitlements from birth til we're dead?
Do you see The Constituion as an ancient paper
Not worth the ink it was written?
Or will you as President continue to honor it
Along with the reps on The Hill that are sittin'?
Do you see us beholding to Chinese intervention
As our debt will continue to climb?
Do you see this country as yours and forgetting
It is also supposed to be mine?
Marian
May 19, 2011
If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists---to protect them and to promote their common welfare, all else is lost.
Barack Obama
Tell Me Your Plans
How does this president interpret the role
His Government was created to play?
It was not in place to save every soul
Micromanage their every waking day
It exists to protect us but not to neglect us
The People who contribute their part
It is not to enable those not willing to work
Who have taken entitlements to an art
It was meant to represent us, our will to proceed
Not to regulate our every waking hour
It was not to endebt us, and totally bind us
To the maximum of their taxable power
Dear Mr. Obama, I ask you this question
In all of my sincerity
Is it your idea that your hope for transformation
Is to collapse our capitalists society?
Do you want us encumbered, liberties now numbered
Like birds in a nest waiting to be fed?
Is you social justice that you want thrust upon us
Based on entitlements from birth til we're dead?
Do you see The Constituion as an ancient paper
Not worth the ink it was written?
Or will you as President continue to honor it
Along with the reps on The Hill that are sittin'?
Do you see us beholding to Chinese intervention
As our debt will continue to climb?
Do you see this country as yours and forgetting
It is also supposed to be mine?
Marian
May 19, 2011
Look To Abe
I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln
February 22,1861 @ Independence Hall.
Look To Abe
He revered the Declaration of Independence
As his political Bible
And all that he stood for
Was his country and its survival
He stood tall above his people
But it was on level ground
Freedom for all was his one true hope
In his Presidency it was found
He was a man who should be looked to
As our country begins to crumble
As The People blame each other
In ideology they rumble
Please look to Abe for guidence
He respected his fellow man
The Declaration of Independence
Held tightly in his hand
Marian
May 17, 2011
Abraham Lincoln
February 22,1861 @ Independence Hall.
Look To Abe
He revered the Declaration of Independence
As his political Bible
And all that he stood for
Was his country and its survival
He stood tall above his people
But it was on level ground
Freedom for all was his one true hope
In his Presidency it was found
He was a man who should be looked to
As our country begins to crumble
As The People blame each other
In ideology they rumble
Please look to Abe for guidence
He respected his fellow man
The Declaration of Independence
Held tightly in his hand
Marian
May 17, 2011
Destiny
QUOTE
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695
Destiny
Choice Is but a state of mind
A misconception of the truth
Free will was offered from days behind
Meant to lead us through our youth
Paths were ahead, to avoid or take
It was for ourselves to ponder
Trying to trick our destiny for our own sake
Taking different roads to wander
Free will is but a carrot
On a string to lead us ahead
The key is not to parrot
But individuality is ours instead
Whatever fate confronts us
Still leads to Heavens door
Whatever road is your destiny
Shall be traveled forever more
Marian
May 4, 2011
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695
Destiny
Choice Is but a state of mind
A misconception of the truth
Free will was offered from days behind
Meant to lead us through our youth
Paths were ahead, to avoid or take
It was for ourselves to ponder
Trying to trick our destiny for our own sake
Taking different roads to wander
Free will is but a carrot
On a string to lead us ahead
The key is not to parrot
But individuality is ours instead
Whatever fate confronts us
Still leads to Heavens door
Whatever road is your destiny
Shall be traveled forever more
Marian
May 4, 2011
Value
QUOTE
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something suffers damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom
Value
Broken treasures, just ordinary at one point in time
Revered for the history it represents
Repaired with golden loving care
Set high upon a pedestal
Broken hearts, of ordinary people
Once loved, or so they thought
Broken hearts can be repaired
With some one's golden touch
Something once loved, someone once loved
Important in some point in history
Repaired because it is something or someone
That once had made an impression
Something is never nothing, someone is never no one
Meaningful is every thing and being
To someone who loved and treasured it
And put them high on pedestals
Marian
March 22, 2011
When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something suffers damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.
Barbara Bloom
Value
Broken treasures, just ordinary at one point in time
Revered for the history it represents
Repaired with golden loving care
Set high upon a pedestal
Broken hearts, of ordinary people
Once loved, or so they thought
Broken hearts can be repaired
With some one's golden touch
Something once loved, someone once loved
Important in some point in history
Repaired because it is something or someone
That once had made an impression
Something is never nothing, someone is never no one
Meaningful is every thing and being
To someone who loved and treasured it
And put them high on pedestals
Marian
March 22, 2011
Trust
QUOTE
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust
Trust is an experiment to be proven or lost
You have to be willing to pay what it cost
If trust is true and proven to survive
The bond with that person forever will thrive
If your trust is misplaced and your heart is broken
Take in in earnest that fate has now spoken
If your feelings are some of complete devastation
It's not you who has tarnished your own reputation
When the one you had trusted has broken his vow
And you're left with the pieces forever and now
Be proud that you'd given his word half a chance
Let him have what he sees as his victory dance
Marian
May 19, 2011
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust
Trust is an experiment to be proven or lost
You have to be willing to pay what it cost
If trust is true and proven to survive
The bond with that person forever will thrive
If your trust is misplaced and your heart is broken
Take in in earnest that fate has now spoken
If your feelings are some of complete devastation
It's not you who has tarnished your own reputation
When the one you had trusted has broken his vow
And you're left with the pieces forever and now
Be proud that you'd given his word half a chance
Let him have what he sees as his victory dance
Marian
May 19, 2011
Ourselves
QUOTE
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
1854-1900
Irish poet, novelist dramatist
Ourselves
We like to see ourselves as part of something
We bask in inclusion in a group
But individually we have our own values
Step proudly, or see how low you can stoop
We are stronger in the herd, we feel protected
But individually must realize
Are we really dedicated to the good of us all
Or will we cut each other down to size?
We must stand for our values, be silent no more
Even if your friends have locked their doors
Because it's faith in yourself that delivers your soul
To what God promised as your reward
Marian
May 19, 2011
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
Oscar Wilde
1854-1900
Irish poet, novelist dramatist
Ourselves
We like to see ourselves as part of something
We bask in inclusion in a group
But individually we have our own values
Step proudly, or see how low you can stoop
We are stronger in the herd, we feel protected
But individually must realize
Are we really dedicated to the good of us all
Or will we cut each other down to size?
We must stand for our values, be silent no more
Even if your friends have locked their doors
Because it's faith in yourself that delivers your soul
To what God promised as your reward
Marian
May 19, 2011
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