I've had enough of the games & I can't allow this to happen again
I see the trouble you bring, the drama you fiend & want no part of this mess you trying to wrap me up in
I tried to direct you, chose to accept you but you chose not to follow & refused the help
Now out of respect boo I have to neglect you, I see that you're hollow, note taken, news to self
I'm the truest you'll meet, one of the realest that played
I went against all odds & tried to plant your feet but you insisted to stray
For a long time I chased you, dumbed myself down in the process going completely out of my element consumed
Caught in the thought, looking back on all that you did to me, my self stupidity is my only excuse why I never addressed the elephant in the room
Now it's over like a movies credits, roll call no more advancement in scenes
You're dirt off of my shoulders now I'm happy & sober, don't bother to call because all you'll get is my answering machine.
Again we're fighting, we break up than make it
All the time this takes up it's just causing more of a shake up
I ain't trying to creep in the night & I don't want to break up
I just want you & to be laid up sleeping on life like we don't hear the alarm when it's going off telling us to wake up
We've been here before but made changes as needed & was always able to pull though
But the problems are now pass the core, you've changed & I see it, you're like a different person now & I really don't know you
You've changed your ways & it's clear you don't be acting the same
It's like you rearranged your plays no huddle & jumped right back in the game
I let you play me once so shame on you
But vowed I wouldn't allow you make it two, so when I felt it coming again like deja Vu
I swallowed my pride because I knew you wouldn't play by the game by the rules
The realization alone messed me up I mean I thought this was love, you was my romance, my Queen
Couldn't even provide a reason for the lies & treason & refused to see me in the flesh so again here I am on your answering machine
ANSWERING A WARRING QUESTION
Why must there always be war?
Can peace not be without war?
Yes, but with less money:
Leaving power mongers
Less oppressive over
Poor you and me:-
She's two fish swimming
in opposite directions
and physically incapable
of answering my questions
always on the stick's wrong end
yet not to harp or carp
but I'm forever on the opposite
that which is pointed and sharp
would I enquire of the right one
it's the left natator who replies
with something unrelated
from out of yonder wild blue skies
and not knowing which will respond
altho' I have my theories
with only what makes sense to me
is how I phrase my queries
but as none have even been addressed
it's become a chore &/or task
I could give in let her win
and evermore simply shouldn't ask
Answering Machine
RRRRRRING…………
Hello and welcome to Oliver’s Olive Oil
Press1 to track your order
Press 2 to place a new order
Press 3 to cancel your order
Press 4 to speak to customer service
Press 5 to find our ours of operation
Press 6 to repeat these options
Press 4 RRRRRRING…….
Hello and welcome to customer service
Press 1 to get our daily pricing
Press 2 to get order our catalog
Press 3 to find out the ingredients
Press 4 to speak to someone in billing
Press 5 to pay your bill automatically
Press 6 to repeat these options
Press 4 RRRRING……..
Hello and welcome to billing
Press 1 to register a billing complaint
Press 2 to find out why you received the wrong order
Press 3 to find out why you received someone else’s order
Press 4 to speak to the billing office manager
Press 5 to speak to the managers manager
Press 6 to repeat these options
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
October 18 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Mark 10-12
Key Verse – Mark 10:51 And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ANSWERING OUR REQUESTS
Praise be to God for answering our requests:
Enabling us in our efficient toiling
Encouraging us toward earnest trust
Exhorting us for energetic thanksgiving
Empowering us along His enlightening truth
Exposing us to exemplify triumphant testimony
Mark 11:22 Praise be to the Lord for
charging us to have faith in Him:
Strongly standing upon His Scriptures
Sturdily serving along His standards
Steadfastly seeking His sufficiency
Sincerely showing His satisfaction
Serenely sharing His salvation
Mark 12:41-44 Praise be to the Saviour for
honouring our giving that is:
Cheerful by His generosity
Confident because of His grace
Compassionate through His greatness
Circumspect along His gearing guidance
Committed upon His gripping governance. Amen!
October 18, 2024
I knew when I grew up
I would be famous
Will you dance?
I laughed
Will you sing?
Absolutely not!
What is your talent?
I frankly did not know
But I knew the outcome of my talent.
Everyone will know me and love me
I will wear expensive designer sunglasses.
I will have a swimming pool and a dog hospital.
I will be more stuck up than my purple poodle.
How I get famous did not concern me then
Does not concern me now either.
When I grow up, I will be famous.
Why do I understand this man, Maria?
Because he flees the world,
For seeking peace,
For seeking truth,
Why do I understand this man, Maria?
Because he love his children, forests
Enough to leave them alone,
Because he had sufferings
And don’t know about them,
Why do I understand this man, Maria?
I too, flee the world every morning,
To seek peace amid trees and birds,
To flee naughtiness,
The world is not a such safe place.
Birds are essential, I guess
They are essential to my life,
They are essential to peace,
For peace of mornings,
Incredible peace, they weave,
They are essential to poetry,
To sensitive people,
They have such discussions,
They discuss about peace and love,
Everyone should listen to them.
In this worn chair I linger
silence in depths of night
as words flow from fingers
memories burn bright.
Silence in depths of night
as I sit in an old room
and memories burn bright
life’s remnants loom.
As I sit in an old room
my muse whispers write
as life’s remnants loom
bringing hidden dreams to life.
My muse whispers write
as inspiration steals my sleep
bringing hidden dreams to life
with precious lines to keep.
As inspiration steals my sleep
in this worn chair I linger
with precious lines to keep
as words flow from fingers.
December 17, 2022
“Did you understand The Narrative?”
And I answered in The Affirmative.
But it was a lot sugared and inventive,
What should’ve been kept and left ‘Native’
For a society still Helplessly Conservative
With her applause for stories of The Summative …
“And did you enjoy The Narrative?”
I made sure I said ‘Delicious’ in a voice penetrative
But in my mind had A Crying Alternative
I thought worth treating as Imperative
For our Youths in the eye stared by The Formative
And often dying to appear assertive …
The Understood and Enjoyed Narrative
I knew I wouldn’t delay its purgative,
All these while answering to an ear please
And clogged nostrils deny a sneeze.
Each line,
each phrase,
each spoken word,
a step toward…
the One
(The First Book Of Prayers: January, 2022)
Using the intellect
to understand God
A circle unending
no light in the fog
Our mind like a hammer
to pry and to nail
Constrained by our motion
and destined to fail
But deep in our essence
that we’ve named the soul
A voice is there calling
a bell waits to toll
To ring in tomorrow
with songs of today
Proclaiming the music
—our spirit’s ordained
(Beaupre: January, 2022)
Two days before
I found out
I would have a second grandchild,
the still small voice
asked me,
“Could you love another grandchild
the way you love her?”
You see I loved my granddaughter
with ALL my heart.
The second born would eye me,
as I’d leave, hand in hand with her sister,
each day, out the door.
Did I love her less?
Her big tear grew in mass,
puddled at the corner of her eye.
Was it there every day?
Was this just
the first time I really saw her?
I carried this tear away from her home.
Her sister would complain.
Of course she would -
suddenly there was two
playmates for grandma.
Four grandsons would join the lineup.
Would grandma choose
a favorite?
I answer the still small voice,
“I love them all, you know…”
8/25/2021
Answering The Time Machine
David J Walker
It has its own peculiar ring
Something like a summers day
Something like a mountain stream
Something like a lilac bush
Something like a quiet field
Something like a firefly
Something like a crying child
Something like a shooting star
Something like a passing train
Something like a lifeguards whistle
Something like your mother’s voice
Something like a double feature
Something like a kiss good night
Something like a summer sunset
Something like that last time
that anything
Felt real
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