BARACK OBAMA: a cautionary view

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Obama is so eloquent
In all the speeches that he makes.
It seems from heaven he has come
To save us all from our mistakes.

A savior could be what he is.
I will admit I do not know.
But this reminds me of a time
Another tried so long ago.

His message too was one of change.
"Do unto others..." was his cry.
It seems to me we still don't hear.
In ways some will not, others die.

So can Obama have success
In making changes that we need?
Of course he can't; no leader can.
To make these changes, we must lead.

The change we must make to survive
Is one we desperately avoid.
Instead of trying to fill it
We have to empty now, the void!

It's filled with our 'philosophies'
We think give meaning to our life
Despite a history that shows
They've given us nothing but strife.

We should take care to analyse
Our leaders and what we have tried.
We must live what is "natural".
We won't if we're Obamafied.

Barack Obama: four more years of same
Barack Obama: attack on greed
Barack Obama: fighting for change
Barack Obama: my hope
Barack Obama: victory speech
Barack Obama: inauguration day
Barack Obama: professing change
Barack Obama: sacrificing lives
Barack Obama: healthcare
Barack Obama: his Gulf oil war
Barack Obama: winning the future

CHARITY

We brag about how proud we are
Of our great gifts to charity.
But really, should we take such pride
In this state of humanity?

The poor are not a second class.
It isn't what they want to be.
They're poor because they cannot climb
Our vertical economy.

No one should have to beg for health.
We have responsibility;
But for ill health beyond control
The stricken should not pay a fee.

It should be free to reach out to
The bounds of our capacity.
To leave out those who can not pay
Diminishes society.

What sense is there in having more?
We know it doesn't make us free
For more will never be enough.
What good is this disparity?

The reason we should not feel pride
In charity philosophy
Is numbers of unfortunate
Reveal our inhumanity.

EAGLES' VISION

IMAGINE

The eagles' eyes are so alive;
Their soaring so assured.
It is no wonder men of old
Adopted this great bird

To symbolize how we can feel
When our activity
Is only that which can take us
Toward what we can be.

We should look up and contemplate
The message that it brings.
When freed, our spirit too can soar
As if on eagle's wings.

Had we the vision eagles have
When soaring on their wings,
Forever we would be released
From all those worldly things

That are attempts to fill "the void"
Found under "the last why."
Instead, we would "reach out..." and be;
And with the eagles fly.

POWERFUL MESSAGE

read Eagles and Humanity

paintings by Sandy Sandy

BELIEFS

There was a time beliefs were not,
Before our 'Mother' gave us thought
Which found then fought the void within
With made beliefs to help us win.

And now because we can't agree
There is one reason we should be,
Our senses we behind us leave
To fight for what is make-believe.

Biology can tell us why
For our beliefs we shouldn't die.
Each gives us a concocted name
Without which we are all the same.

We have unique capacities
That by our realizing frees
Us from beliefs that can't succeed
In giving us the life we need.

Instead they're causing fatal strife
That will no doubt destroy our life.
For life we have to heed the call
To see the ideal view for all.

MOTHER'S LEAVING

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Mom's ninety-one; death has to come
Yet sadness I know still.
But in her space I won't remain
When eyes begin to fill.

I'll show her only happiness
And not the pain inside
By going deep within to where
Fond memories reside.

And when I can't contain my tears
The place that I will go
Is out into our garden where
They'll make her flowers grow.

MOTHER'S DREAM
MOTHER'S GAMES
MOTHER'S HOPE
MOTHER'S MARKET MEMORY
MOTHER'S MEMORIAL BENCH
MOTHER'S SAD ATTACK
MOTHER'S WAR
MOTHER'S WAKE