I m just a small town country
girl and I guess i cant complain,
Even when everything seems
so wrong and I feel like i'm
going insane
I know that crazy feeling wont
hang around that long,
Cause the people in my family
help me relize that i am strong,
So when you think that uve hit
rock bottom and ur livin life in
dout,
U just gotta take the time to
look around and u'll always find
a way out,
Its the lil things that matter
most , these lil things people
dont take time to see,
Could be the only thing in this
world that will ever set you
free!!
People go along with life,striding their own way
however,for good,bad or indifferance,this is what i say
life is for the living, do not dwell the past
treat eachother equally, and shadows do not cast.
For people in glass houses, should not be flinging stones
nor mocking the afflicted,or bullies breaking bones
really,what are they thinking,it really is obsurd
my speach it is not fluent, and people finish my words
They don`t realise the frustration,how can they possibly
it`s every day life for them,i cannot make them see
the frustration, a fluent speaker takes for granted
twas not my fault, a seed did grow once it was planted.
Paul Beadnall
Sponsor Natalie Fllikkema
Contest Name Cellphones in the sauna...What annoys YOU?
Growing up I always knew what I wanted to be.
I wanted to help people, like you and me.
Some people say that all I have to do is listen,
but its more than that, I let people shine and glisten.
Yes, I am a counselor of kids and adults.
But you see, I listen and get my results.
I don't know why I am, or what I did.
I've been this way ever since I was a kid.
I can hear people and figure out their pain.
Yet, it is hard to see the sunshine through the rain.
This is the gift that was chosen for me to give.
I don't just listen to people, I help them live.
This isn't just a job to stop others from falling.
This isn't a job, its not an occupation, its a calling.
The oath I took says I will always do my best and try.
I will always fight for and help others, even if it means I die.
While some people come, others are a no-show.
They make promises, but break them as they go.
Some say they can’t do it, but don’t even try.
What is stated is truth, but it turns out a lie.
All I want are the facts as I move to and fro.
Don’t always give me the same thing, “I don’t know”.
I expect them to be on time, but they arrive late.
When I ask for the news, people often prevaricate.
Sometimes, these jokers don’t arrive at all.
Too often, those I know are enough to appall.
In this world, I know many a Jane and Joe.
Frequently, all each one says is “I don’t know.”
When I ask you this, don’t say “I don’t know”.
If I ask you that, don’t say “I don’t know”.
When I want to know, don’t say “I don’t know”.
If I want to hear, don’t say “I don’t know”.
Is your only reply going to be “I don’t know”?
Get lost you worthless trash, you had better go.
My heart is purred clean,
I feel like I am guide in a wrong direction,
Why is it the world we live, so harsh?
Why do people lie in your face?
Why God isn't there when when you need Him the most?
I am tired of waiting!
It's been 5 years, nothing has changed!
I am tired of knocking on the wrong doors.
Every time I look for you I get discourage!
Where are you?
Why do you send me to people who don't care?
Shouldn't life be fair?
My feet are stuck in the mud,
I feel like I can't go no where!
I hate to live here!
I want to be in a place that I can call home,
I want to be around people who cares about others,
All I see is lies and false advertisement!
I am tired of chasing life to make it my way!
All I ever wanted was small things,
That makes me happy!
That you take away from me!
Why are you doing this to me?
What am I supposed to learn?
Why am I supposed to wait?
Too many people living in the same place
Too many people just needing some space
Too many people with so much greed
So many people with too many needs.
Too many people with so many cries
Too much to lose yet another just dies
So much sorrow, carrying so much shame
So much is lost, with no one to blame.
Too many people with no place to live
So many people with so much to give
So much has changed, yet is still like before
Just close your eyes and then close the door.
Too many people who just cannot see
Too many people just longing to be free
Too many people caught up in this game
Better wake up it’s your thirty seconds of fame.
Too many people with nothing to believe
Too many people with something up their sleeves
Too many people brought down to their knees
So many people that are crying out please.
Too many people that just fell asleep
All of those people finding the hill much too steep
Too many die while so many weep
Too many people in way too deep.
I rose up from my bed, feeling better than I have in weeks;
With energy that has been absent, feeling rosiness in my cheeks.
I felt like I could dance and waltzed across the floor,
Twirling an imaginary partner I danced and waltzed some more.
I was light on my feet, feeling like I was floating in the air;
The shortness of breath I’ve had - no longer was it there.
Then suddenly I realized, there were people watching me,
How they came to be in my room was a total mystery.
I started recognizing faces of people from my past;
Some of whom it was many years since I’d seen them last.
Their faces were aglow; they smiled from cheek to cheek;
I turned back toward my hospital bed – where my body laid in its final sleep.
I felt an initial shock, mixed with panic and some fear,
When the meaning of my feeling good to me had become clear.
Then a nurse walked in my room and my pulse she tried to take;
She turned off all the monitors and covered up my face.
I felt a tapping on my shoulder and recognized her at first glance;
My wife who passed four years ago asked, “May I have this dance?”
MYSTERIES OF THE WORLD WILL THEY EVER BE SOLVED,AS WE AS A PEOPLE CONTINUE
TO EVOLVE. UNCOVERING THIS FINDING THAT, ALWAYS TRYING TO FIGURE WHATS
UNDER THE HAT CURIOUS PEOPLE YOU AND ME CAN,T EVER SEEM TO LET THINGS
BE.NEVER GIVEN TIME TO DEVELOP FULLY,RUSH TO JUDGEMENT NO MATTER HOW
UNRULY .TO WHERE THINGS GET SO CHAOTIC,DON,T LOOK INTO THE WHIRLPOOL IT IS
HYPNOTIC. TURN YOUR HEADS TO THE SKY THAT IS WHERE THE ANSWER LIES
You don't know me,
Why tell lies,
You watch me in my face and smile,
Then like a snake make people think otherwise.
How do you sleep at night?
Do you feel inner contentment ,
Making others look bad ,
Do you require fame from your "drabby" life,
What is it?
I hate it when people who say,
"I am not that kinda person",
And they are ,
Makes them hyprocrites,
I dislike hypocrites,
You wanna make me look bad,
Then do!,
Because in the end I will move on with my life,
And you will be right where you have always been,
Miserable.
SOME PEOPLE LIVE TO DIE
WHERE OTHERS TRY TO DIE TO LIVE
WE WERE BORN FOR A REASON
AND WITH A GOAL IN MIND – THAT IS
WHY SOME PEOPLE LIVE TO DIE…
SOME PEOPLE WERE BORN
ONLY TO FIND THAT THEY
WERE BEING TRAMPLED ON
AND SO THEY DIE TO LIVE
WHAT IS IT ABOUT LIFE
THAT MAKES IT SO
WORTH WHILE OR
WORTH LIVING FOR?
IS IT THE WAY THAT WE DO THINGS
OR HAVE A MINDSET THAT
WILL NEVER CHANGE ITS COURSE?
AS HUMANS, WE INTEND TO FIND
THAT FORKED PATH ONCE
LIFE CHALLENGES US
AND WHEN WE HAVE TO CHOOSE…
OUR EMOTIONS INTEND
TO GET IN THE WAY
AND THEREFORE WE
DO NOT SEE
THE WARRNING SIGHNS OF
PAIN AND SUFFERING
FOR ONCE YOU HAVE CHOSEN YOUR PATH –
YOU EITHER LIVE TO DIE
OR DIE TO LIVE…
Put forth all your effort into everything you do.
For if you keep on pushing, they won't give up on you.
Smile all throughout the day and keep your head held high.
Never show how much you hurt and never let them see you cry.
Rumors of your "struggle" will spread, and most of them will be lies.
But people will believe what they want and will believe it until they die.
Since you know that they're all waiting just to see you fall,
Prepare to be surrounded with your back against the wall.
You'll learn you can only change for yourself, and to yourself you must stay true.
You should try to avoid negative remarks from people who can't love you for you.
Life is what you make it, and you should make it your own.
Just don't forget to forgive or you'll go through most of life alone.
Some people find the path to where they need to go.
Some people ask the question, and the answers always no.
Their place in line is at the end to go and see the show.
They never seem to make it in, they're just close enough to know.
The knots just seem to slip right through their hands upon the rope.
They're hanging on with all they're might and every ounce of hope.
They spend every dime they've got to try and understand.
They practice every note they know, but never join the band.
The simple pleasures of the world, for them are never known.
They plant their seeds to feed their souls, but nothings ever grown.
You ask yourself just what it is that keeps them at arms length.
Is it that their hearts are broken and their spirits have lost strength?
I think that maybe that is true, their mourning never stops.
They try to find what they have lost, but the bubble, it just pops.
The grave is calling out their name from hope that they have lost.
They see the goal they want to reach, but can't afford the cost.
Sideways people living out on the plain
I think they've been dying for a change
sent some men up to try and make a trade
sadly we got nothin they want in exchange
Ethnocentric yankee joe
tryin to find out where people go
when they're done being part of the show
but he can't find what we won't ever know, so
Go out on the water tonight
make yourself pretty, make yourself tight
I never understood what's so good about the light
but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give up the fight
All the country girls they dance and swoon
when mr. money bags comes promisin the moon
always fails to mention that he's leaving soon
that's how it goes when you're riding the boom
They tell you money makes the world go round'
spent a few years just sleepin on the ground
when the bodies turned up, they sent the hounds
hopped the next train on the way outta town, so
Go out on the water tonight
make yourself pretty, make yourself tight
I never understood what's so good about the light
but that doesn't mean I'm gonna give up the fight
Respect is a word people don't follow
but in your mind you say why should you follow it if they don't
but as they say you have to give respect to get respect even though you don't get
it back
but b4 you respect anybody respect yourself
respect is a big word in the world
If you don't give you won't get
Respect is something you have to give everyday and all the time not just when you
feel like it
Some people don't give respect and they don't regret it but at the point your feed
up but you keep your cool but one day you will get to your breaking point
RESPECT
JUDGEING PEOPLE
JUDGEING PEOPLE IS NOT RIGHT
JUDGEING PEOPLE IS GODS JOB
JUDGEING POEPLE IS DISREASPECT
JUDGEING PEOPLE MAKES A BAD PERSON
JUDGEING PEOPLE WONT MAKE YOUR LIFE BETTER
JUDGEING PEOPLE IS NOT GOING TO GET YOU SOME WHERE BETTER
JUDGEING PEOPLE IS NOT IN GODS WORDS
JUDGEING PEOPLE CAN LEAD TO BAD THINGS
JUDGEING PEOPLE CAN HURT SOMEONE MORE THEN WHAT YOU THINK
JUDGEING PEOPLE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOU LATER IN LIFE OR AFTER
JUDGEING PEOPLE CAN GET YOU TO LOSE FAMILY AND FRIENDS
JUDGEING POEPLE IS JUST WRONG
JUDGEING PEOPLE IS GODS PLACE
JUDGEING PEOPLE ISNT OTHER PEOPLE PLACES TO DO SO
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