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JLR
Senior Member

since 2001-02-04

Posts 1785

0 posted 2001-03-27 10:21 PM

What a Difference a Day Makes

Yesterday
I shared my dinner
With the cats and dog
Cried over my misfortune
Cursed the man who still tried to control me
Wondered how I’d get along
Even one more day

Today
I had my own tuna sandwich
And some canned ravioli
It was wonderful

Today
I am grateful
To be eating such a humble meal
To have such connected, loving friends
That it doesn’t take too much to make me happy
That I didn’t ask again

I’ll find my way out of this mess I’ve made
And I pray that when I do
My days of servitude will be over
My days of answering to you

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2001-03-27 10:28 PM

You just can't know how well I relate to this.....have strength.....it gets better

SEA

Mabel A. Dilley
Senior Member

since 2001-03-17

Posts 859
Seattle, WA, USA

2 posted 2001-03-27 10:30 PM

This was precisely written with sharp images that linger not in the mind, but rather at a soul's level of understanding.

"I am not now that which I have been."

Paula Finn
Member Ascendant

since 2000-06-17

Posts 5546
missouri

3 posted 2001-03-28 12:15 PM

Thats all it takes baby girl...just one day...and thats how ytou do it...one day at a time...great write

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2001-03-28 12:19 PM

JLR~
AMEN !
Let it begin !
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

ATelamon
Member

since 2001-02-06

Posts 328
Purgatory, Last Staircase, Up

5 posted 2001-03-28 02:01 AM

Sometimes the simplest is the sweetest
the fare you indulge for corporeal aware
Sometimes you have to have been there
in a place thankful for that place itself

We in this land of treasure seeming boundless
often rarely give a thought or care to what
ifs and probabilites of tomorrow to know the
nature true can only build the spirit of you

I once worked in services emergency all those
people you never think of until you need them
desperately we had no holidays always on call
just in case you or friend or family might

I recall an officer, yeah a guy in blue, hey
I used to tell those guys where to go a good
40 hours a week my joke for you he and I took
jugs of water to an old man dispossed hurt

DHS considered him too hard a case too grumpy
too hard to handle but we found him glasses too
and food and tried again and again on our own
time until one case worker who saw beyond his anger

for a reason many as it were but we found one
person in the system that would help this old
man he didn't want to be old, he didn't want
to be near blind, he didn't want his tiny

oh so tiny income stolen from him each month
yes he was angry but we took him water tried
everything we could and finally found him
help I always thought it strange me bringing

back to work DHS materials to pass about I guess every organization overlooks seomthing
But maybe the oddest part is I never met the

officer in blue on the radio or phone we

knew each other that way I could give you his
name and would recognize in an instant his
voice but in all the trips of water food and
anything we could do we never met I guess

That wasn't the important part we just both
did what we felt we had to so a long story
means what to humble dinner is not humble at
all and if you reach out you may find giving

No matter what commercials say or your indoctrination We are here to help each other it is the only way take delight in your moments they shall not come again Peace to your heart is Peace to Mankind and its greatest Feast of all

"The most redeeming facet of life is that we have the comfort of knowing it will end. Death doth love equally."

[This message has been edited by ATelamon (edited 03-28-2001).]

Nate Dogg
Senior Member

since 1999-11-15

Posts 1658
Georgia, Fulton

6 posted 2001-03-28 02:06 AM

I feel what you're saying...wonderful write!!

Nathan

ParisGrl
Senior Member

since 2000-06-01

Posts 610

7 posted 2001-03-28 10:04 AM

R.J.

You go girl! Great write....stand up for what you believe in.....listen to me. LOL maybe i should take my own advice! :-)

ttys,
Laura

vandana

Member Patricius

since 1999-10-22

Posts 10463
USA

8 posted 2001-03-28 10:26 AM

enjoy the read

DreamLess
Member

since 2001-02-28

Posts 92

9 posted 2001-03-28 10:43 AM

your words are really lovely ,I enjoyed it

thanx,

WRITTEN BY ME..(17 YRS HIGHSCHOOL GIRL)
EASY ON ME.. I'M JUST AN AMATEUR

Sven

Member Laureate

since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

10 posted 2001-03-28 12:51 PM

excellent. . . I love the power behind these words. . .

wonderful. . .

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Just A Woman
Senior Member

since 2001-03-10

Posts 507

11 posted 2001-03-28 02:14 PM

and you do it beautifully.

"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live"

~Vittorio Alferi~

jwesley
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-04-30

Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

12 posted 2001-04-03 07:41 PM

I really enjoy the way you weave emotion into your writing...yet keep things clear and
on line.

jwesley

walker
Member Elite

since 2001-02-11

Posts 2240
Florida

13 posted 2001-04-03 07:48 PM

A day does make a difference.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, all you have to do is keep focus. Very human poem, I like it!

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