All powers belong to God
Those powers being abused
Belong to deceptive entity
Choice is greater than fate
For fate favors right choice
You choose good reap goodness
Rather go to pitfalls, behave
Why choose good karma instead
All good flowers wait for right time
Bloom properly and shine the most
Unexpected come surprises
Yet manage to show some reserves
Life grows where love abounds
In perfect time beauty surrounds.
She gets in the zone.
Brushes in hand she becomes a magician.
Conjuring her own fantasy world.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
Sometimes in life things are out of our control...
Especially when we feel we've given to the bottom of our soul...
Only to receive nothing in the end...
But I want you to know in me you have a lifetime friend...
It hurts that I can't give you what you want most of all...
Which is a friend on which to call...
In that respect I feel I have let you down...
And I'm sorry if I made you feel "jerked around"...
I hope we share more moments like we have in the past...
Because I never want it to end even if I can't promise I'll be your last...
Cause you see over the past few months I have grown real fond of you...
Through the good and the bad you have helped me too...
So even though time and elements are against us on all sides...
Just know that I still want to be where your heart hides.
Everything you watch on your computer or TV,
everyone you communicate with electronically,
every movement you make, to or at any locality,
are all being monitored, recorded and archived by the powers that be,
all in the name of national and international security,
but that is not the true reality,
regarding this blatant violation of our personal privacy.
With all of this personal information Anybody,
can be set up to appear as someone they would never be.
This power is in the hands of a few, not the many,
and power always corrupts inevitably,
but absolute power always corrupts absolutely,
at least that is what history has always taught me.
The powers that be in the World stand akimbo
The people in all countries hold their breath in limbo!
I AM A HERO
BLACK
Are you my kryptonite
To battle the powers that be
Discrimination, political
Spirituals warfare
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM A HERO
WHITE Are you my kryptonite
White supremacy, skinned heads
Wounded knees
Shaved cold stoned hearts
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM A HERO
NATIVE AMERICAN what tribe am I
And where am I, Are you my kryptonite
Rich men never poor again fighting rising TAXES
What a shame
This disclaimer
Black Panthers in the jungles
Just getting stronger;
Poverty clashes
Fake rented mustaches
Seasoned hick
Country kicks
All run away, no where to stay to each his own way
Just ain’t right to be individual heroes see none are right…
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
HERO AM I
Lo, I be creeping in the night…
I KRYPTONITE
1/30/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
January 28, 2020 Assignment
Written for class assignment (WIPS) North Omaha Writers Group (NOW)
Face to face
Face the facts
Get your strings off of my back
Controlling me
Force to see
Your twisted ways
I turn away
But not to die
I want to live
Out of your light
Blinding fright
Casting shadows like dead of night
I scream aloud
But no one hears
A call to arms falls on deaf ears
The dumbing down of society
Has bypass me
But played on their fears
Till the paths not clear
Back to the sight we hold dear
To envision a world not ruled by hate
And run by those who shed no tears
Those at ''The Top'' may have a degree
Whatever you think ''The Top'' to be
Groomed and smart but looking so tense
Because they have no common sense
Common sense is overlooked
Possessors of it ? - Their goose is cooked
This is because the powers that be
Have no common sense you see
The powers that be always say
The subject ''Economy'' won't go away
In fact they give me a pain in the tooth
'Economical' only with the truth !
Where's the next war coming from ?
We need another place to bomb
That is where our money goes
Creating death and a thousand woes
Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan
Look what happened in Vietnam
The ''Politics'' game fills me with frisson
Just one question - why don't they listen....?
The powers that be always say
Creating war is the only way
Making themselves a whole lot of money
On OUR taxes - it ISN'T funny
Then having made mistakes galore
THEIR troubles are brought to YOUR door
As for me ? - MY only fix ?
Stay away from politics....
So many of our children are destined to die
to insure that our automobiles continue to ride
while the powers that be in the oil industry
take our money and continue to thrive.
Many factions of the oil industry's powers that be
also have business interests in weapons manufacturing for the military.
It's a win/win situation for the powers that be,
but it's a tragedy for all of the surviving, grieving families
whose sons and daughters were marched off, then slaughtered like sheep.
All of us could save so many thousands of lives
if we just parked our cars and refused to drive.
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