4/15/2006 11:55 AM
We all seem to be
Our own worst enemies
There is no way
You would allow
Someone else
To treat you
As you treat yourself
9/5/2006 12:30 PM
Another day comes
Then fades away
It doesn’t bother you
You seem to have an abundance
Of time
Totally oblivious
To the fact
That your journey
Grows shorter
With each passing day
There are so many things
Of which you have no control
You can’t keep
From growing old
And you can not
Escape dying
You can strive
To be a better person
Full of Love and Kindness
When you wake up
Tomorrow
Changed from the person
Who went to sleep
Tonight
9/2/2006 8:10 AM
When you look back
At man’s time on Earth
It is called his story
It was written about men
By men
There’s been a war
For this
And a war
For that
And in every war
Man wore a different hat
And all the wars
Produced clubs of hatred
Where men wore
Even sillier hats
That covered a fear
Of all things different
Then there is woman
Feared for her strength
And wisdom
It would be great
If we could look back
On her story
Surviving abuse and slavery
It would have to be better
Couldn’t be any worse
More contemplation
More compromise
More patience
Let’s start
A war on war
And let women
Run the show
And I mean
Women who are women
Not just men
In disguise
3/21/2006 10:45 AM
Some where
Some how
Some time
Some one
Will touch your soul
Then
No where
No how
No time
No one
Will ever be the same
3/28/2006 5:30 PM
Crisis
Come in all sizes
Adjustable to fit
Your every need
I can not see
Any immediate shortage
Nothing seems too important
If it is happening
To someone else
How we came to this place
I would love to know
If there is a highway of life
We must most assuredly
Be traveling the wrong
Direction
For a five year old child
To go to bed hungry
It’s just devastating
For someone crippled
To move even a short distance
Becomes a crisis
For someone to live their life
And never know true love
A love of life
Is truly a crisis
For so many people
To live their life
And never realize
The beauty of this planet
And all the wonders it holds
Should make you
Cry
3/22/2006 9:55 AM
There is always a right
And always a wrong
You can stand in the light
Feel the warmth of the sun
Or you can hide in the dark
Worried that you will stumble
Wanting to run
Paralyzed by fear
4/3/2006 8:15 AM
A negative person is like the
Ultimate poison
Able to move around
In so many ways
Dispersing their venom
Upon all they encounter
Feeling that there is always someone
Standing in their way
Their glass is not
Half full
It is not half empty
To them it is always
Dirty
A positive person
Is like a ray
Of sunshine
Able to break through
On the cloudiest day
They wake up each morning
Knowing they are lucky
Because someone they encountered
Helped make them this way
They realize that life
Is a carnival
So they
Enjoy the ride
6/27/2006 2:25 PM
You wake up in the morning
And begin a brand new day
Rejoicing in the fact
That you have been given
One more day at the carnival
Everyone you meet
Returns the smile that you give them
And then it happens
You turn the corner
And there they are
Someone cloaked in a cloud
Of darkness
You say hello
They say
Go to hell
Don’t let it get you down
And don’t let it rob you
Of your sunshine
Just remember
That the darkness
Is just as important
As the sunshine
And there is a balance
In most lives
They just don’t go
Together
6/27/2006 10:25 PM
Open your eyes
With every new sunrise
Try to rekindle
The feeling you had
As a child
An excitement of life
But never forget
That so many people
Can’t rekindle that feeling
They never experienced it
There is an extreme duty
For those that have known
Love and Kindness
To let it blossom and grow
So that more people
Can know
The joy it brings
Open your mind
If someone placed misguided views
Of prejudice, envy, and racism
Before you at early age
You and you alone
Can decide to not let them
Be a part of your life
No one has a choice
Regarding the color of their skin
Or the status in society
That their ancestors achieved
Fear of the unknown
Can not dictate your actions
Hatred of all that is different
Should not be the rudder
That steers your ship
11/21/1979 10:30 PM
Open your heart
Every part of the universe
Beats as one
Don’t have selective Love
Openly care for everything
Give every aspect of nature
The same respect you desire
For yourself
Look at every day of your life
As a gift
It is by far
The greatest gift
You will ever receive
And don’t spend your life
Wasting this gift
And longing for a greater one
Open your heart
Look around you
Do something
Every day of your life
To try and bring
Love and Kindness
To a higher level
8/8/2006 6:15 PM
There are walls
To keep you in
And there are walls
To keep you out
You spend your whole life
Gathering up things
That you will someday
Be without
Overlooking kindness
Too busy for a smile
Finding it hard
To meet someone half way
Never going the extra mile
Thinking you have forever
As the minutes tick away
Turning your life into
One endless competition
Full of mistakes
You have been told
For which you will forever
Have to pay
8/8/2006 6:25 PM
If you want
To measure greatness
You can not do it
On a scale
A good place to start
Is with someone
Who got up
Every time they fell
And kept a smile
Upon their face
When the storm
Was in their eye
And knew that they
Would not always succeed
But they always had to try
6/8/2006 11:40 AM
Fifty-four years
I have been here
It seems like two weeks
Since I was sixteen
And time accelerates
With each passing day
I have known
Abundant love
From the very first day
It doesn’t get
Any better than that
Most of the problems
I have encountered
I created
Each day
I meet someone
Who has never been shown
Love
They have never had the luxury
Of creating their own problems
They carry a burden
Every step along the way
Burdens that were placed on them
By other lost souls
My greatest hope
Is that more people will know Love
And show Love
Unconditional Love
4/20/2006 12:32 AM
What if
You never saw hatred
Or heard someone cry
Your thoughts were
Only concerned with living
Although you knew
Someday you would die
When someone told you something
It could not be a lie
You marveled at the beauty around you
The power of the sun in the daytime
The endless glow of stars at night
You were constantly thankful
You knew that you
Were part of everything
And had always been
5/11/2006 10:33 PM
Earth
Is the only place
You can get a watermelon
Such a miracle
There are people
Who believe
Calling a watermelon
A miracle
Is absurd and sacrilegious
I believe everything
Is a miracle
One that brings
So much enjoyment
Ranks high in my book
A tiny seed
Extracting minerals and moisture
From the Earth
Basking in the warmth of the sun
Growing at an enormous rate
Blossoming, then producing
An extraordinary fruit
If life
On other planets
Ever gets over
Their very understandable fear
Of humans on Earth
And travels here
It won’t be
To do harm
Only to eat
Watermelons
5/18/2006 10:45 AM
A piece of petrified wood
Part of an enormous forest
That stood
Forty-five million years ago
It makes me feel
Quite insignificant
It also makes me wonder
How so much damage
Can be done
In such a small amount
Of time
Why don’t we give this planet
The respect it deserves
Please do something
Open your eyes
And realize
You are walking
With your best friend
Everyday
4/11/2006 10:35 PM
Can you believe
That among the creatures
Residing on this planet
There are those
That could rob a blind man
Physically abuse an old woman
Sexually abuse a young child
Murder someone
Who speaks of love
Imprison someone
Working for kindness
Rob someone of their self-esteem
Kill something
For a rush of power
Turn their backs
On someone
Who gave them love and life
4/30/2006 12:50 PM
It has been four years
Since I last saw you
In one way
It seems like yesterday
In another
An eternity
They say
Time heals all wounds
Just one more time
They are wrong
If you truly love someone
The amount you miss them
Will never diminish
But I am lucky
Because the one I miss
Created me
And every time
I look in the mirror
I can see her
Smiling at me
And with every breath
I can feel her
Always a part of me
2/21/2002 9:00 AM
They took the shackles off our legs
And put plastic in our pockets
People are starving all over
And they are busy building rockets
I can’t take it any more
I get more outraged every day
And when people talk
The truth gets in the way
3/3/2006 1:29 PM
What good is a question
Where lies can be found
You look for an answer
But never stop to listen
12/3/2003 6:20 PM
Why don’t you wake up
And realize
You are here at most
For a brief moment
Would it be all
That hard
To lend someone
A helping hand
11/16/2003 6:30 PM
I think that it is time
We started trying to win
This human race
The direction we are going
Is nothing short of
A drastic disgrace
People sitting on mountains
Of money
Saying they were elected by
You and me
They are busy making
Choices
Where to buy
Another rocket
They have a gun to our head
And their hands in our pockets
Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Some are worried
About a thief in the night
Others wonder about
What’s wrong or right
Some are cutting down the trees
Others are choking
Some are losing
Arms and legs
Others are joking
Some worry about
The look of their wedding cake
Others are starving
4/21/2006 1:10 PM
Everything that you are
Was here before you
And will be here after you
You started out microscopic
Gathered particles and went about
Manufacturing yourself
Once you realize this
You begin to see
That you are no different
From anything in the universe
There is only living
And change
Continuous change
Glorious change
Humans can keep on
Telling themselves
That they are special
It is not true
You can become special
Not because of what you are
Only because of
What you do
And you also realize
That either everything is God
Or nothing is God
4/9/2006 12:30 PM
I’m not dying
To be popular
If you don’t
Like me now
You probably won’t
Care for me then
If I let the hair
On my body grow
Like the animal
That I am
I encounter much contempt
Yes, I’m an animal
In that I take much pride
But unlike other animals
I have a dark side
I am human
And slowly but surely
I have lost
All my senses
When I look around
It seems very common
4/13/2006 10:48 PM
Every sunset
Should find you
A changed person
Stronger, more able
To see and follow
All the paths
That lead to you becoming
A kind and loving person
But realize
That you can achieve
Very little
On your own
You can be a drop of water
That falls on the desert floor
And evaporates instantly
Or you can be
A drop of water
That makes its way
Down a mountainside
Joining with others
To become a major force
Of nature
Changing everything
It passes
4/12/2006 12:00 PM
In the blink of an eye
Everything can change
The things you took for granted
Suddenly are gone
That which seemed so easy
Becomes a time-consuming ordeal
You once could run
Now you can’t walk
You could see
Now everything is dark
Depending on the kindness
Of strangers
And finding more strangers
Than kindness
4/6/2006 2:15 PM
There was a man
He spent most of his time
Consumed with thoughts
Of power and wealth
He pretended to Love
The daughter of a very wealthy man
And she agreed to marry him
For a wedding gift
He was told
He would receive all the land
That he could cover in one day
He knew that the more land
The more power and wealth
One morning he started running
So driven by greed
He ran all day
Seldom resting
Just as the sun was sinking
He collapsed and died
When the others found him
They buried him where he had fallen
In the end
He didn’t actually need
That much land
7/14/1992 8:30 PM
Have we been given the free will to become slaves to our own inhumanity? We seem to be losing the human race. Running the wrong direction isn’t helping.
3/18/1977 4:30 PM
Why is it becoming so hard to get strangers to look your way or to return a smile or friendly gesture? Every day I see people who will not make eye contact, as you meet them, they stare blankly ahead with the look of a zombie. They seem afraid that you might want something from them. How did we get to this point? Where does it go from here? It must be turned around, starting now.
2/17/1988 6:10 PM
Someone can ruin your day
Take all your happiness away
Because of something that they say
Or that smile that’s just not there
10/16/1982 9:30 AM
A large amount of time and effort has been spent trying to piece together the parts of the puzzle associated with plant and animal predecessors on this planet. You must realize that the many curiosities and mysteries of this planet are located on the surface layer of a multi-layered planet. Earth has been continuously growing for an unimaginable amount of time. The oil that we are rapidly robbing from the ground represents organic material, such as ourselves covered by thousands of feet of cosmic dust. Earth’s surface shows the scars of recent meteors that embedded and completely changed both the climate and topography in vast dimensions. The many wonders that are partially visible on Earth are very recent and represent only a miniscule amount of time. Man’s existence on Earth has been the longest roller-coaster ride in the universe. Reaching enormous heights followed by cavernous depths. We must learn, just as many of our ancestors knew, that we are the keepers of this planet. It has given us so much and deserves our utmost respect. The technology that we have should be used to keep meteors in the future from colliding and destroying everything just as it has happened so many times in the past.
You have a front row seat at the greatest circus in the universe.
Enjoy the show, pick up after yourself, and be amazed.
