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Acting A Fool
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Don't want to look back, don't like the here and now, pray for tomorrow...that's all we've got.

I'm sick of people telling lies
devoid of morals lacking respect
vomiting out children
they raise themselves
responsibility...
fades to black.


Prayer is taken out of schools
no time to teach...
life skill tools
letting them do
what they want to
parents have no time for you.


Shocked when cops show up at the door
shackled children appear in court
remorse runs down empty halls
parents cry...
not from shame
they too deny.


Where did you go wrong?
echoing in serial killer minds...
you gave them everything
money could buy
but...
love from yourself...you did deny...


Acting a fool...fools have multiplied!


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 Reviews of "Acting A Fool"
Reviewed by Fr. Kurt Messick
Reviewed on June 1, 2004
:-)

Reviewed by Fletcher Bailey (Reader)
Reviewed on April 26, 2004
Your words should printed in a user manual and sent to every parent on the planet. Great write.

Reviewed by Marie Wadsworth
Reviewed on April 11, 2004
"Who's the more foolish: The fool or the fool who follows him"
-- Obi Wan Kenobi, "Star Wars"

Reviewed on April 5, 2004
excellently written and so much truth here! Outstanding,

Reindeer

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on April 3, 2004
"an acorn doesn't fall far from the tree"

Reviewed by na na (Reader)
Reviewed on April 3, 2004
Sometimes Zenith we act foolishly toward our children, because our love tells our hearts to be loving, kind, and gentle toward them. We practice what we feel with clouded vision and do much damage to them. There is a place for discipline in each families life. Knowing how and when to exercise it is sometimes very hard to determine. Bill Murray

Reviewed by Carmen Ruggero
Reviewed on April 2, 2004
"...fools have multiplied", is absolutely right. We've have slowly become more and more permissive. Too accepting of values that have never been our own. Live and let live, doesn't mean what's always been wrong, is suddenly right! Morality has dropped and children are raised accordingly. Good subject.

Carmen

Reviewed by William Bonilla
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
Amen Zenith
right on track

William

Reviewed by Ron (sketchman) Axelson (Reader)
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
You hit the nail on the head
Parents don't know the meaning of
loving their children anymore.
Great write ~Z~

Reviewed by - - - - - TRASK
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
QUOTE:

________________Only Fool's Never Make Mistakes_

Congrat's For Tellen It Like It Always Was!

Your True Friend, TRASK

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
AGREE...Ed & Rufuz

Reviewed by Daniel McTaggart
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
In my mind, schools should supplement what parents teach their kids. Take prayer out of schools and you weaken the chain of their moral focus. Why not have silent prayer? Kids can still pray according to their own religions and teachers won't worry about "offending" anybody.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
How true these words.

Reviewed by George Carroll
Reviewed on April 1, 2004
Powerful write on a problem that is not going to go away until parents take the responsibility of raising and loving their children and teaching them correct values.


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