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Richy
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since 2003-05-03

Posts 3050

0 posted 2010-07-02 08:00 PM

They say that when we are dependent
we are lesser, weak, and
helpless.

Now help me out here,
that is the lesser of
being, independent
right?

I mean who of us,
would ever want to consider themselves
humble, and vulnerable?

Oh god certainly not me.

I’ve always had the answers
to, cough, everything
I never needed.

Independent,
is good yes?

Being on one’s own, separated,
unaided and unallied.

Funny how the Temperance Movement
of, self restraint
brought about the prohibition period
when this country was actually born,
from an addiction.

An enslavement, if you will
that almost died in the fight
to break its own chains of bondage
itself.

We should all be so addicted
again.

We should all be,
in dependence,
of each other
once more.

All we ever wanted
was to be able to be
dependable to someone…

right??

All we ever needed
was someone as well
that we could depend on
from time to time
to time…

to time.

True?

We are one creation indivisable,
altogether in this.

This is,
our village earth
under one undivided sky,
surrounded by,
one
big
unbroken
ocean.

That is on loan to us
from gods, and earth,
and existence, and
destiny.

Our destiny,
to have the intelligence,
and the,
dignity
and respect,
the gratitude
and the compassion
to be right,
to do what’s right
for our
home
and for our,
great big…

family.

Can we all be
dependable,
once more?

I don’t know…

How much hope do you have
in the pocket
of your heart?

I guess it all just
depends.

If we want to continue
enjoying this beautiful earth
or just be the dirt beneath
that we are walking on
today.

If our life is worth dying for
in the war of our daily frown
of freedom and bliss
then it too
should be worth living for
during the smile of peace,
and the declaration
of our own dependence.

Our dependence to each other,
and ourselves.

May the winds always
blow sweet and unfettered
across the faces of free people,
not just here
but everywhere.

As hearts together
of reddened glare
burst high in flight
into the tears of
heaven
and arms,
of night.

[This message has been edited by Richy (07-02-2010 08:42 PM).]

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2010-07-02 08:37 PM

I'm thinking, my friend, that your questions back in and upon themselves. I would like to depend on my neighbor's eyes, that they might note something gone wrong in the neighborhood, and notify me if I can assist.

I would like to be independent in choice on my neighbors, to the extent that I don't live in a war-torn area.

I would like to be dependent upon my children to visit me when they wish, allowing them their own independence to do so.

Vice versa.

It's a good question, Richy...how to perceive independence, and depending on how it is interpreted, dependency.

And I'm sure that in the mix, it will all depend on Depends....no matter which way you slice it.

But right now, I'm thinking that our nation needs to be more dependent on the independent...the folk that strive to make this nation one as a nation, and allowing that we govern ourselves with civility, compassion, equality, and liberty...and requisite guidelines.

It's only a test...and voila...citizenship is recognized.
.
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis

and I'm sure this poem might not have been written to generate such a response from me, but on this particular weekend, knowing my history as I do?

I thank you...for your right in posting it...my privilege in reading it, my right to issue my response.