‘WORLD IN ORDER WE KNEW'
Helpless Humans / Animals - Americans
Useless Illusion ; Self-Deceit?
...
HURTING ALL.
Either admit defeat!
Or stand
before the fall.
Never has our world been
so awfully Stained.
Putting trust into government is,
Completely insane!
Our leaders? Deceptive!, Poison-feeders
We're ranched for cheap labor. SLAUGHTERED
Forced worship, in fraudulent saviors.
(politics = nonsense)
Bureaucratic
********!
Trapped within a legal fence?
ARSON OF
REVOLUTION!
THE FIRE IS NOW LIT!
By J.R. Thornton 11-18-08
I walked down the hospital corridor
And a dragonfly I see
Staring through the window pane
Looking just for me.
My mind immediately took wings
And soared above the clouds
I looked upon the city huge
Where I was once a child.
Then the wind beneath his wings
Transported me far north
To the Nebraska Sand Hills
And the school I once taught.
Here a Cowboy riding tall
Caught my eye you see
Then I knew with all my heart
This land my home would be.
I drifted farther north again
To Dakota land,
Where we ranched and raised the kids
Our dreams to soon would end.
Back to Kansas we did go
A living was our goal.
For twenty years you worked so hard
Your health did pay the toll.
I traveled upward one last time
Our old place I see
Beneath me lies your garden site
With nothing left but weeds.
I soar over our new home
Your flowers and veggies bloom,
I picked your pretty coral rose
And brought it to your room.
The dragonfly blinked his eyes at me
His message I'd misread,
He wasn't here for me at all
But for my Cowboy, instead.
I need to thank my daughter-in-law Darcee for her help.
Cile and Darcee Beer
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