When people came here
They thought the streets were paved with gold
For some it was
For most it was not
The widest margins stretched between
all that we say
all that we saw
all that we do
We cannot make it the same for everyone
We must try
On some things we must try
Inspired forever by care and concern
Our hearts continue to beat and form
The rhythm social consciousness
We try to avoid the befuddlement
Standing ready to advance
Yet, smells of wealth and good wishes
Packaged by the those who desparately wish
To keep us down
We take the tonic
It is a farce we are waylaid
They are not us
While we silently linger along the path
Holding our heads up looking forward
Living as best we can driven by death and loss
Because it is different for them
We know when we keep our head down as they
Continue to speed up and pass us
The streets are not paved with gold.
Copyright 2011 by SheilaTGTG55
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Remember Emma G. - If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal.
:-) / R
Ron: Great line, I completely agree!
Poppi: As a small business owner, I know a lot about health insurance. I also know a lot about how it works for the benefit of the insurer, I worked in human resources for some time. I lived through the transition you spoke of and I live here now in this incredibly bad economy. In a fb conversation today a friend posted this:"Two Harvard studies done years apart have both concluded that 62% of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by medical bills. MEDICAL BILLS!!! And ironies of ironies, most of those filing had insurance. Only in America." I believe it was really Bush that destroyed the middle class and Reagan set up the faulty "economics" that bred it. I say this as a person who almost always identified myself as a Republican and as a person who for the last 25 years has been wondering how I ever thought that was a correct thing to do. When the party swung hard to the right, I stopped taking what they said as gospel. That is the problem with so many of it's followers today and those who support its ideology, it is filled with all kinds of side tracks on the truth and science.
It is too much.
They are not us"
No they are not us, and we are literally in a fight to the death. They decided a long time ago there were too many of us and they are special. THEY are not just the very rich, THEY are those who gave up their humanity. Don't they "feel" different to you Sheila?
"It's the greatest poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." Mother Teresa
Peace, comfort and love to you.
I know poetry is not your usual choice but I think it was just right on this occasion. Well done.
One lady on FB said that free health care would never work in the US like in Canada anad went on and on and on...
Thats the problem.. no one wants to work together.. Health care has been free since 1966 ion Canada..
Its sucks sheila in the US..it really does
HUGGGGGGGGGGGGG
♥R
Hawley: Yes, yes, fool's gold.
Algis: That was a very kind thing to say, and lyrical too.