Where do we go from here?

It's a long tremulous road

and I'm unable to steer.

Follow my fears,

Trace my tears.

Once I was strong,

Now I don't know where I belong.

I write so much of love
I write to sort my mind and soul
love, what I know of love
there is love
and then there is love

the bright burst at first glance
the powerful consuming fire
the waiting, the wanting
spending time communicating
wanting to spend time communicating
the needing
the passion
the insecurity of not knowing
the loved, the lover

Taking the time after that burst
taking time to see what will be
taking time to find the real you*
learning the good things
learning if you can accept
if you will accept
the bad with the good
the warts with the beauty

Then there is love
accepting the other for who they are
for what they are
loving the whole
accepting the whole
realizing that it may be work at times
accepting that it may be work at times
being willing to work at it in those times
seeing the inside as well as the outside
loving both
even if the other is not a classical beauty
even if the other is not defined by beauty
loving both
that is love

© JACM 04 July 2009

Again inspired in part by a song. The lyrics are below, click on the title of the song to hear it (it is a beautiful song and Annie Haslam's voice is amazing, she can reach five octaves!).

Nor is he a clone of Hitler or Stalin!

He is NOT plotting the overthrow of the US Government!

He is NOT planning to maintain government ownership of GM, Goldman-Sachs or any OTHER private company!

He is NOT planning to turn the USA into a Socialist/Communist/Fascist country!

He is NOT a dupe for some Illuminati/Jewish/Masonic/Skull-and-Bones/One-World-Government gang of plotters!

He is NOT a warmonger, nor is he anti-capitalist!

Barack Obama, in his first five and a half months as President of the USA has simply done all he could to keep George W. Bush's economic disaster from becoming a full-blown depression... and so far he is succeeding.

BTW - exactly WHERE in the US Constitution does it say that we are a strictly Capitalist country, and that any government action that changes that, however temporarily, for any company, is a traitorous government?

Your arrival sends me dancing in the rain

and ameliorates history.

In silence after the storm,

my smile returns.

Wine fills my cup,

wiping away despair.

Gracious prayers fill the air.

No more wasted days drowning

in deception.