What are we doing here
If not to fight for what is right?
That is your calling my friend
And mine.
So little time
So much to do
And yet—
We dare not use that
Worn out phrase
As our excuse
For lack of action.
There’s time enough
For setting our compasses
Toward that far off horizon
To kick start our engines
And follow that route
To a time and place
That we will only know
The moment we arrive
There.
A beautiful way of saying that, "we the people," have failed our obligation to our selves and to the planet when we don't aggressively fight for what is right and left what is wrong continue to grow and flourish, and eventually steamroll us out of the existence.
We must speak out for what is right and act on our conviction rather than let others do it for us while we blame everything going wrong on other people.
These few words embody the task we as Americans, and the whole planet faces. There is little credence in the words of those who deny our global essence, our inexorable relationship with the world. Yet, our leadership in this country has chosen to play out third-world narcissism as if our plight was nothing more than a sequel to Woody Allen's "Bananas." Unfortunately, we seem to have a locked-up compass pointing straight down to the burial ground of failure's victims.
These song lyrics and art are tales, tides and twinkling lights - tunes telling stories of warmth and sun, city and sand, paths that lead, and the coins we can keep in the Karma Bank. Spirit's been bypassed for sorrow, dreaming of a better tomorrow .
Note: Since my husband's cancer surgery 4/25/05, this book content has been integrated into the public speaking content for audiences interested in a sassy approach to personal and/or community awareness events. Another chapbook on intimate love poet
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Love ya!
Jane
We must speak out for what is right and act on our conviction rather than let others do it for us while we blame everything going wrong on other people.
Ron