Twenty-five years on there are many lessons
Learned and still waiting from 9/11.
When American history is reviewed
Only a few clear days stand out,
Boston Tea Party, Pearl Harbor, World Trade Center
Yet how many Americans know these days,
And how many even care?
That’s lesson one.
New York City now has a Muslim mayor
Openly sympathetic to the terrorist jihad
That made that day something to celebrate
Making him at least a “Terrorist-lite”.
Somehow in the place least expected
The world has been turned upside down.
That is lesson two.
9/11 of course changed America
Paving the way for a new world order
A war on terror and surveillance state.
Which despite all misgivings, all assurance
It would soon be over and go away
We have accepted
And so it now appears just here to stay;
A sad and sobering lesson three
For a land of the free based in liberty.
What comes next, what’s left to learn?
That for liberty to last it must be earned.
(9/6/26)
God you are the smartest, you take it all away, only to turn our head and make us see the light.
God thank you for all the time you give us to make our life shine bright, thank you for all the times we fell we learned lots of lessons, and got some bruises too.
God thank you for giving us a chance to get back up and make amends.
God we are trying to follow good ways, please don’t give up on us, we will pray and work to make you proud.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
Steps and Lessons
There lies
Steps that go down
And down
And down
To the Quiet Pool that Is my Soul
What are the steps?
But lessons learned day by day
Week by week
Year by year
So when does one find this deep and quiet pool?
Hmm
Better yet be the question of what lessons will lead one to the Soul of Me.
Sometimes we want to cry, we want to let it out the pain that others have caused, sometimes the cry stays in, we hold it and pray.
Losing your family, losing your loved ones, losing memories can cause us to feel down.
God told us to pray, to not lose our way, for all things in life work together for the greater good, that in the end God will take actions for all the pain others have caused.
Cry for all the lost children, lost people, lost lives we remember them all and pray.
God told us to pray, to not loose our way, for all things in life work together for the greater good, that in the end God will take actions for all the pain others have caused.
So, cry, love, laugh, pray and remember in the end God will take care of all of the bad things that caused us pain.
For God told us the true battle is not for us, it is between evil and good, and we are just in the middle building a list of the bad.
We ask God to take away all the people that cause pain, to remove all the negative and lead us to a Godly life, make the tears leave our heart and mind.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
Be thankful for all our blessings, for the times we survived the test of the day, the moments that we had to hope to be okay.
Life can give us moments that make us feel down, we can feel like we can’t carry on, we can be on a road that has no way out, like we are in a room that has no lights.
Thankful to God, for all our blessings, for finding our way, for learning our lessons.
Sometimes we feel lost, we lack mentors, we lack ways to improve our life, we suffer, we cry, we pray for better days.
Thankful to God, for all our blessings, for finding our way, for learning our lessons.
Be thankful to God, for giving us ways to find our way home to heaven someday, for love, for time, for all our positive thoughts and ways, for life can change with just a thought.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
Laws of Life 's Lessons
Life's Lessons hit tender, then
Claw,
Teach youthe truth in the wake of every flaw.
Streets don't whisper they inscribed their laws
Inked in struggle, sculpted in scars.
Every steps a test you saw,
Every win's an expense you draw.
Life doesn't contort just cause you pause-
Lessons shape you, Laws don't save you-
Corruption 's the cause.
We must not lose hope,
As it’s our only rudder
In marine tumult.
a simple right turn
we end up in a ditch
where did he go wrong?
O precious full moon, so far away.
Even though it's night, you made my day.
O moon, you're so very bright tonight;
I love to gaze into your light.
This much I learned from you.
We are not alone in what we do.
As goes time, you and I also change.
You shine even though not always full.
Your brightness and size vary,
But you are always the moon.
You never try to be other than the moon.
You are not near as bright as the sun.
I cannot stare into the eyes of the sun.
But oh my dear moon, I see you clearly.
You are not as large or as popular,
But like the sun, you rise and set.
You didn’t hand me boxes wrapped in bows,
Or silver trinkets bought upon a whim.
Instead, you took me where the river flows,
And taught me wealth is found in catching bream.
You gave the gift of a persistent mind—
To cast the line again, to watch, to wait.
To look beneath the surface and to find
That patience is its own rewarding state.
I became a treasure hunter of the human heart,
You taught me the value of a quiet space.
You taught me how to pull the world apart,
And to find the gold in every simple place.
The rush of water, and a bending reed,
The stillness of a humid afternoon—
You showed me that the only things we need
Are found beneath the sun and silver moon.
So I will let the others keep their fragile things,
Their fleeting goods that tarnish on the shelf.
I have the wealth that only nature brings,
And all the truths you taught me of myself.
Life counts everything;
She is such a subtle judge;
There's no nepotism.
The taller a tree rises
The deeper its roots do sink
To brave the wafts of wild winds;
The higher a man mounts up
Lower his grips need descend
The ground of humility.
Cry for all we lost, all of our friends that failed to make it till now.
Cry for the times, we made bad choices, we failed because others did not give us good instructions.
Cry for the times we could have made a difference, but were afraid of repercussions.
Cry for the ones that never saw the light of day, for they were made to go away.
Life will make us cry, we will learn lessons, and some lessons will make us sigh.
We will need to carry on, and learn lessons, we will need to see the bigger picture, and remember that history will always remember the cries and sighs we had in our lives.
Our life will be our own, so cry and sigh, and love and forgive, and let out all the negative, so the positive will have room to grow within.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
They forgot my birthday, I thought it was a joke, I waited all day for the big moment.
I sat and waited for the cake, but they never made the cake or said happy birthday.
I was about 9, when they forgot, they must have had more important things on their mind.
Birthdays are important and we like to feel loved, so for all that have had their birthday forgotten I say Happy Birthday to all.
Life will test us, it will do things we can never imagine, we will wonder if this is some kind of test.
Forgetting us in ways and times, can make us feel down, so you need to know that you are not alone.
Birthdays and events will come and go, but you always have yourself to love and care for you, like an artist makes mistakes we learn from all the cracks in life, so fill them in with love and care.
So, celebrate today and all your days, love yourself, forgive, and make yourself number one, and never let anyone take you down.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always
As a poet
you need a profession
beyond the written word
Neal Hall
an ophthalmologist
Robert Burns once farmed unheard
One hand to feed
the other
as labor stakes its claim
Before
the words were uttered
— the genesis of fame
(Lessons From Neal: October, 2016)
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