HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO MY QUEEN, BARBARA
(She Is 82, And On The 15th, I’ll Be 84)
Everyday,
From the beginning,
Has been Valentine’s Day
For you and me:-
And the old axiom is true:
The more things change,
The more they seem
To remain the same:-
Yes,
Over the years,
Much in our lives
Have changed;
Yet, the eternal love
That I have for you,
Has remained the same!
Hey, what else can I say?
And this is always how
It is going to be
Between you and me:-
Our onderful supreme love
Is a oneness—gracious one—
Eternally pour out in onement
From the Cistern of love above:-
For us, one and one, will always be two,
That is one, wherever we may be:
Thus, is the love of the oneness of you and me:-
I bought a Martha Stewart pan and liked it very well
now for my cooking needs I have ten or twelve
I used to drive a big old Ford Galaxy it was colored brown
now I have a green Chevy truck to get around
Once I only drank Coca Cola to cool me down
now a Pepsi even RC my thrust to drown
Blue jeans were all I wore that was a fact
now I am more comfortable in a pair of slacks
Once I always slept in PJ's to dream the night away
now in loose t-shirt and boxers on slumber's sleigh
I once watch network television for shows and news
now its all streaming for entertainment woos
I used to pray at night before I went to sleep
now I pray anytime of the day or week
The more things change they really do
but the one constant I keep as I love you.
Change is a constant
while traditions die hard
And they say the more things change
the more they stay the same...
Yet at the end of the game
it's out with the old
and in with the new
An anomaly on which
philosophers chew
The longer you live, the more things change
~ Sooner or later, the whole world's strange
'I've got an app for that' sure sounds a lot like
~ 'Would you like fries with that?'
Hey, what’s The Deal?
1/1/2018
Tom
When young, the older people ignore us
Thinking we have nothing beneficial to say.
As we grow older, the young people ignore us
Seems nothing has changed except year & day.
“The more things change the more they remain the same”
I Still Know a Few Things
The more things change, the more they stay the same
A bit of philosophy that still rings true, same old game
Sometimes we win
But much to our chagrin
Things can turn out bad and parts burst into flames
The more things change, the more they stay the same... NOT TRUE
When's the last time you encountered a knight riding through
Or a Model T Ford
With some flappers aboard
See what I mean, each day's never been duplicated in life's zoo
The King is dead and Malcolm too;
Those who are left include me and you.
Now is the time brother, what shall we do?
The Black Power Stokley left behind
Is gone into decline; faded away—
No one remembers Kwame Toure.
Pass the White House today.
You know what they say:
“The more things change,
The more they stay the same way.
How strange.
We are back at the day of no;
Back to where they called our place.
They took the ‘yes’ out the day before;
Today we remain a struggling race.
Emerald time fades to onyx night
The yoking sun shines on the brave
Energizing ebony warriors of the fight;
Least we chose to die as a slave.
As strange as this all may seem,
Know these are not words of a dream.
The enlighten know what they mean;
Freedom remains to be redeemed.
To be or not to be is not the question.
Ours must remain total liberation—
Freedom awaits its full restoration;
Thirst of the children await its libation.
The morning moon, afloat now in the west
Is white and insubstantial as a cloud
So light is her impress
And vapour hangs about her like a shroud
She stuck around to greet the sun, before
Dissolving at the edges of the earth
Now to her score
Must be added all the miracle of birth
When she returns, as it is clear she must
She’ll differ from the vision of before
Take it on trust
It will be she, though there be less of her, or more
The day you left my orbit I believed
We’d each embarked upon divergent paths
But I have since received
An education in the nature of the past
The things that leave us don’t go far away
The more things change the more they stay the same
I begged you, stay
I had no reason to; the sense of you remained
Different?
The more things change,
The more they stay the same,
That’s what someone said,
Who has no name.
If you say “I’m different”,
From this or for that,
Isn’t it true?
You’re just wearing a new hat?
WHEN JUSTICE TOOK A HOLIDAY
Justice took a holiday today;
Peace fought back the tears.
The mourners came to knell and pray:
Guilt having choked the apathy of the years.
No eulogy can change the present or the past;
No commentary can ease the lingering pain.
What a mockery is made of “free at last”;
Only God has escaped the pointing blame.
Tomorrow will bring new tales to be told.
There’ll be no victory upon this cloudy scene;
Only memories of shades of gray of days of old:
Once again, humanity blinded to what was seen.
Yes, the more things change, the more they stay the same;
God forbid, we’re heirs to lives immune to festering shame.
So keep your eyes watching God while waiting for freedom to come;
The pursuit of happiness, life, liberty and justice, is still only for some.
But let us not whine and wallow in debilitating despair;
Let us not be like those who say they just don’t care;
With our audacious faith, there’s nothing we can’t bear.
So let us keep on keeping on with the last sweet breath that is left;
Let our cry be: “America! Give us liberty! We have given you our death!”
first " there's not time like the present" then they say "haste makes waste"
then "don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today"
"the more things change the more they stay the same" some say
and in the next breath"tomorrows another day"
they say "if it don't happen naturally then leave it"
then "if at first you don't succeed try try again "can you believe it?
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