Sandy... PLEASE write more! This is such a profound write; it touches me incredibly deeply. Can't really find adequate words, but somehow you knew this one would touch me the way it does! "Trading freedom for safety," and "moving on" (deciding where to go, by looking at where I've been [paraphrased]). Sometimes, we MUST trade freedom for safety; and that's a shame. And... we must move on. Jeff
Reviewed by Sanjay Sonawani (Reader)
Reviewed on December 30, 2003
In short you described the agonies of whole mankind...
"I traded freedom for safety
Lost everything in an effort to win
Wondered what would become of me
Alone, I fought to be me again"
And how cruelly doese it happen that mankind never could be what it always prayed for!
Sandy, love the poem. Those last two lines say it all. Sometimes life holds many surprises and learning to handle them as they come can mean the difference between failing or surviving.
Inside the Methadone Clinic. Addiction to heroin, methadone, and other opiates. Destruction. The primal addiction" of the child, power and control over your own life, the institutions and the characters, the love between a mother and son. This book i
(Richard M. Feldman) Ever since I was a young boy, the only thing I wanted to be was a cowboy. I wanted to own and work on a real ranch, with cattle and horses. Especially horses.
While I never became a cowboy, considering everything I have done
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"Confusing At Best" strikes thoughts on life and living...
It is an inspiring poetic-philosophical composition.
I have learned and enjoyed the reading of "Confusing At Best".
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
"I traded freedom for safety
Lost everything in an effort to win
Wondered what would become of me
Alone, I fought to be me again"
And how cruelly doese it happen that mankind never could be what it always prayed for!
Sandie Angel a.k.a. May Lu :o)