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Sunshine

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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2011-11-16 01:40 PM

How Best to Choose Your Dilemma

quote:

“My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to
save or to destroy slavery.If I could save the Union without freeing any slave,
I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all slaves, I would do it; and if I
could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone; I would also do that.”
Abraham Lincoln, letter to Horace Greeley, 22 August 1862

I am here by whim or fate
By the door or by the gate
My life is in His eyes, you see,
My strife is only caused by thee.

To make my way, step by step
Matters not if free or kept
My life is in His eyes, you see,
My strife is only caused by thee.

Was I asked to step in chain
What has caused this sad refrain?
In my land I braced the wind,
In my hand I held my kin.

By man’s greed and awesome power
Lost I centuries by the hour
Yet still the dilemma is blamed on me
All I asked was let me be.

My blood was shed before the war
Now others blood is shed by score
Now man’s greed and awesome power
Bleeds the country its darkest hour.

Now one man would cast my fate
By the door or by the gate
My life is in His eyes, you see
My strife is only caused by thee.

In the blackest light of white
A man’s dilemma caused this fright
But, my life is in His eyes, you see
My strife was only caused by thee.

~*~

I am reposting this in memory
of those who read this nearly
a decade ago, poets that I will
never forget, those who had
encouraged me...
for it matters not what color
I bear, what matters is how
I choose my dilemmas.

(c) KRJ, orig. 8-17-02
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Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
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1 posted 2011-11-16 01:59 PM

Ah, so classically written. Perfection. Thank you for the memory and the gift.

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

2 posted 2011-11-16 03:03 PM

I haven't read it, and now I have. This is well worth a number of reads, and so I will save it to return to it later.

I think, Sunshine, that there are two very overbearing problems in this once great land of ours, and that is greed twice-fold. I believe that the powers-that-be are greedy for that power. I believe that the bankers and Wall Street and all those money lenders and money changers are a problem.

I also believe that those who think this once great country owes them life, liberty and health benefits, free college, free everything just for being alive and breathing. I believe that those who want those more affluent to "share the wealth" are greedy in their desire to get their hands on someone else's money without doing one single thing to earn it.

I've had my say. I will return, often, to read this poem of yours. You did good and I had my say.

~*~ Money cannot buy happiness but its more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes than on a bicycle ~*~

JL
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since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

3 posted 2011-11-16 03:13 PM

"By man’s greed and awesome power
Lost I centuries by the hour
Yet still the dilemma is blamed on me
All I asked was let me be."

The entirety of this is awesome, this verse says a lot.
We have moved away from our central most American theme,
Live Free. Free from tyrannical government. Free from a restrictive
and overbearing regulation driven big government.
Government hands all over the business of a free people never works.

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

4 posted 2011-11-16 05:04 PM

Sunshine,
Truly a poem of historical significance. Glad I popped in on this, I would not have wanted to have missed it.
Doc

JamesMichael
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since 1999-11-16

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Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

5 posted 2011-11-16 05:59 PM

Fantastic...James

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2011-11-17 12:34 PM

I'm glad you reposted this... even though the note at the end caused me to look up the original posting... and shed a few tears over names that are sorely missed. But part of them lives on... both through their own words and the words they encouraged into existence... their gifts linger. *S*

I missed this first time around... and that's my loss for I could have treasured it through the years. *S* It's beautiful, K... it's powerful... and it's appreciated.

Martie

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California

7 posted 2011-11-17 05:46 PM

Sissie...I don't know how I missed this the first time. The title alone is filled up with poetry. You have written this time period and thought, with empathy and character. Love it!

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