Comfort Zones ( thanks to Larry C for the idea)

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ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

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my own state

0 posted 2002-02-04 12:09 PM

Move in and out of intolerable zones
paradoxically comfort is not within reach
for gents whose lives are bent on stress
words of warning are issued
when it comes to trips into unknown waters

We lead lives within shields,
comfort zones of great appeal
and put up barriers to repulse and shun
somebody does talk to the down and out
others say talk to lechers is taboo.

Talk to gents who live with stress
in comfort zones of great appeal
skirt embarrasing issues, lecherous ones
point to fiends of rocking the boats
see ships of fools, they continue to float.

Repulse and shunned by moral definers
the charges of minors come to courts
comfort zones where we know how to deal
sentences of warning for juvenile offenders
comfort has it, we wade in charted waters.

gossip exchanges behind the curtains
question are asked, why take the brunt
comfort zones are cool with in shields
why talk or listen to the down and out
but if we let them rot in jails
we sadly fail.

[This message has been edited by ecrivan (02-04-2002 12:14 AM).]

Larry C

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since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

1 posted 2002-02-04 12:12 PM

Martin,
Our jails are way too full! I like your moral conscience and your social awareness. We need more of this kind of thinking.

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

2 posted 2002-02-04 12:17 PM

In fact I think so too, would like to stir some interest on this can of worms here, otherwise America risks the votes of confidence it gets on priding itself for the
efficient law and order it advertises!

Madame Chipmunk
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since 2001-12-05

Posts 8296
Michigan

3 posted 2002-02-04 12:44 PM

Very good poem, Martin...overcrowded jails and prisons are a big problem in this country.

copyright2002 Lyra Nesius

"poetry is life distilled" Gwendolyn Brooks

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

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my own state

4 posted 2002-02-04 01:02 AM

So I urge some of you to at least develop some consiousness of helping to get some of the "shunned" back into society so that they can contribute

amusemi
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since 2001-12-08

Posts 1262
A State of Disarray

5 posted 2002-02-04 01:34 AM

Martin, I love that you care so deeply, but this is a tough one for me. I try to support those who have made it to the half way house and offer them jobs, offer them an ear and encouragement. Great write!!!

peppermint35
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since 2000-05-28

Posts 1106
Texas, USA

6 posted 2002-02-04 03:13 AM

Martin, you've touched on a tough issue.. and one that so needs to be not just talked about.. but something done about...

But the masses cry for "justice" and cry for blood... and we just keep on.. not thinking, not caring.. just following like sheep... never pricked by conscience and most assuredly never troubled by original thought...

Thank you Martin.. indeed.. we DO need to do more than talk about these things..!!!

Pepper
"A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth."
Percy Bysshe Shelley

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

7 posted 2002-02-04 11:50 PM

Amusemi and Peppermint,

this goes with my poem on jail penpals and was inspired by a statement from Larry referring to comfort zones which I like.Tremendous wealth can be obtain by edging out of your comfort zones and helping somebody who can change for the better

Victoria mentioned buying a subscription for a prisoner so he could keep up with what's going on in the world, RGWells suggested that a helpful ear is
sometimes all that is needed.

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