Excellent!!

Love Tinka

Brilliantly done, very wise words!
Birgit and Roger

Excellent, truthful write. It is pure and simply, satan. I saw some idiot man on Dr. Phil trying to make something called "polyfidelity" seem morally correct. He was true to two women. What a crock! I'm as fired up as Jerry.

Beautiful, full of wisdom and to the point. You have described what a change can do to our life whether we like it or not. And more changes are on the way which are strange to us now if we see or hear but become normal when we get used to them. Thanks Eileen and GBQ
Abdi-Noor

I think the crux of marital failures is the same for most moral failings; someone's ego is driving instead of a loving spirit. Furthermore, modern man, especially in America, increasingly mistakes lust for love or assumes the entire relationship should be like the giddy times of infatuation. But true love is a decision and committment, something much deeper than fleeting feelings. That's why we take marriage vows, to say before the village and God that we have made a decision to love this person, to stay with this person come hell or high water. However, vows mean little in this country today either. I understand that sometimes a marriage will not work no mattter how hard we try, but I think some people make up their minds not to try very hard because they want what they want. If it's no longer the bond of matrimony, then they are just as hellbent on destroying the marriage as they were originally on walking down the aisle. Again, ego! Only their self-desires and self-needs matter to them. Okay, that's my sermon for this morning. LOL. Thank you for the thought provoking write, Eileen.

Definitely, today's hectic lifestyle is terrible on relationships. However, in my case, my husband and I are together in everything we do. And yet...still no bliss. Sometimes, marriages just aren't meant to be, no matter how close the friendship. ~ Sara

It seems that morality is no longer a necessary component of our society. No one assumes responsibility for their words or actions and when it comes time to fess-up, then comes the finger pointing. I lived a wild life, but all that I did and the consequences I had to accept, I did without trying to shift the blame on someone else or whining about the punishment. Do the deed-do the time, a simple fact that we all should understand. A very thought-provoking piece, Eileen.
Take care,
Sherry

timely

The trouble with sowing wild oats is that you often wind up praying for crop failure. :)
This is very powerful. But guess I don't need to preach to the choir. Keep making folks think!!

Eileen, you have captured the reasons that America is going to hell in a handbasket with a jet engine. Very good presentation of the questions of modern life.

Bobbi

When we lost that "front porch" dialog with our neighbors, then is when things started to change. One thing I liked about living in Texas was that people still "visited" with each other before they would talk business. Arizona is somewhat that way, but not like the friendliness of Texas.

(And I am STILL shocked, Eileen, which is why I am becoming so vociferous in my old age.)

Eileen,

You ask many thought provoking questions in poetic verse; I feel that the trend setters are only following in the footsteps of their "leader": Satan, the thief that comes only to steal, kill and destroy. It's time we stand up and boldly say, "No more!"

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

You got me fired up, too. :) Thank you!

All good comments that I can heartly agree with

I tend to agree with Rage below, it is the dastardly strategy of Lucifer to break and fragment our society, undermine our morals, and destroy our faith !
We each must stand tall, and protect the values and standards that make up a just, caring society Eileen
TY
Peter

I am one of those who think ill of the morals of this country. Yes, I know, I was a hell-raiser for a big chunk of my adult life, but there was a difference. I had the morals of an alley-cat maybe, but I also had good upbringing and I knew to hang my head in shame from some of it. I have always been an advocate of "doing-it-behind-the-barn" when you decide to do things which are frowned uppon. Well, now they have brought the barn to the block you live it and call it progressivness. Bull! It was trash then and it is trash now, but we have progressed so far in the mire and muck of Sodom and Gomorrah that is is even shown of television. Good poem. Stoked me up.

Eileen,

Fantastic write; as always, a job well done! BRAVA, Diva of the Den!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :D

It is the strategy of the dark to separate, break apart and attempt to undo the oneness, to remove the coherence of all things, bodies, feelings and thoughts that exist in the universes. The whole it can never beat, but each individual fragment it will try to annihilate. Thanks for providing matter to consider. Take care,

RAge