The lone child shaking at the screams
Soon the day will end bring the night
As the night will surely fall
The screams will become louder
No one hears the screams but the child
She alone can hear them, Oh how she hears them
The screams do not come from only one
They are the screams of millions
Souls that have lost their way
Demons that play for keeps
Angels that cry for the loss
Children that fear the night
These are some of the owners
The owners of screams so sad
Screams of anger, pain and remorse
Screams that most ignore
The child sits on her bed
She is awaiting the screams chorus
The song of despair and hopelessness
The tawdry voice of fury
No way to stop the screams
For this child alone cares
Cares for the souls, demons, angels & children
She feels the pain of all
She has been cursed to see the evil
The evil all possess within themselves
The evil many use against another
The stench is strong
She is the forgotten child
The one all fear
For she is not like the rest
No sound does she make
She never speaks a word
Never has a smile passed her lips
No tears have fallen from her eyes
Not even a sigh does she make
She has been written off
Diagnose as insane
Although she is only fourteen
Many fear her silent ways
They locked her away
In a place 'for her own good'
For if she does not speak
One cannot know what she is thinking
The truth is there, the fear is real
She does not speak
For at the tender age of six
She told the tale of truth
She dared the world with her words
Telling all that if humanity did not change
Only the depraved and mephistophelean would live
She spoke only the truth
Her repayment was a room with bars
To forever keep her quiet
Many tests did they run
On this child of six
What they found scared them all
She was not like them
She had no anger
None could provoke her
She had no demands to be met
She loved them all
No matter their wickedness
This cannot be allowed
They all thought
So away she went to protect us don't you know
Many of the things she said
Have came true to the doctors dismay
Now the scientists come into play
More tests they demanded
We must find her secret
For if we do we will be the most powerful
Try as they might
No secret did she tell
No magic did she show
As she stopped talking
Slowly they went away
Shaking their heads in dismay
Now she knew their secrets each and everyone's
She saw their fear and their fates
Yet never again will she talk
For when she told them all their dirty secrets
When she cried tears of blood
When she refused their deals
They had to do it, or so they say
They locked in a padded room with a lock
Then they took her tongue & sealed her eyes
No more secrets will she say
No more tears of blood will she shed
She will never refuse us again
Yet they will never know
This child all alone
Could and would destroy them all
So with every scream she hears
With every tear she must hide
Her secrets are told to those insane
Monday, July 31, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
A Poet Writes from the Heart
Misery loves company, so I am told
Yet many wonder why I write so dark
In my heart the tears never stop
For cruelty and pain are rampant
Seeing someone smile is out of the norm
Hearing laughter is so scarce
I do not know if I became a poet
To express my pain inside
Maybe it was to give a voice to all that can't
The poor, the weak and the young
They all need someone to speak
For everyday to them is a battle
So weary are they
There is no energy to fight
So now I speak on behalf of all
I am a poet {so I am told}
A poet that writes from the heart
Yet many wonder why I write so dark
In my heart the tears never stop
For cruelty and pain are rampant
Seeing someone smile is out of the norm
Hearing laughter is so scarce
I do not know if I became a poet
To express my pain inside
Maybe it was to give a voice to all that can't
The poor, the weak and the young
They all need someone to speak
For everyday to them is a battle
So weary are they
There is no energy to fight
So now I speak on behalf of all
I am a poet {so I am told}
A poet that writes from the heart
Founding Fathers Christian, Fact or Myth?
No one disputes the faith of our Founding Fathers. To speak of unalienable Rights being endowed by a Creator certainly shows a sensitivity to our spiritual selves. What is surprising is when fundamentalist Christians think the Founding Fathers' faith had anything to do with the Bible. Without exception, the faith of our Founding Fathers was deist, not theist. It was best expressed earlier in the Declaration of Independence, when they spoke of "the Laws of Nature" and of "Nature's God." :
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation, ." The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
Still in doubt I know, so I am going to place some quotes from some of the founding fathers themselves on this matter. Let's start with Thomas Jefferson:
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth." SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS,
by John E. Remsburg, letter to William Short.
One more by Thomas Jefferson:
"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ'" (don't attack me I'm only quoting)
How about George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a Universalist who denied the existence of hell) was invited to become an army chaplain, the other chaplains petitioned Washington for his dismissal. Instead, Washington gave him the appointment. On his deathbed, Washington uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance:
George Washington and Religion by Paul F. Boller Jr., pp. 16, 87, 88, 108, 113, 121, 127 (1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX)
John Adams: "Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?" Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli. Article 11 states: The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
Now on to Thomas Jefferson, third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, said:"I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian." He referred to the Revelation of St. John as "the ravings of a maniac" and wrote: The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power, and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonism engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained,": Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 453 (1974, W.W) Norton and Co. Inc. New York, NY) Quoting a letter by TJ to Alexander Smyth Jan 17, 1825, and Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr., pp. 246 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to John Adams, July 5, 1814.
Ethan Allen, whose capture of Fort Ticonderoga while commanding the Green Mountain Boys helped inspire Congress and the country to pursue the War of Independence, said, "That Jesus Christ was not God is evidence from his own words." In the same book, Allen noted that he was generally "denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian." When Allen married Fanny Buchanan, he stopped his own wedding ceremony when the judge asked him if he promised "to live with Fanny Buchanan agreeable to the laws of God." Allen refused to answer until the judge agreed that the God referred to was the God of Nature, and the laws those "written in the great book of nature" :Religion of the American Enlightenment by G. Adolph Koch, p. 40 (1968, Thomas Crowell Co., New York, NY.) quoting preface and p. 352 of Reason, the Only Oracle of Man and A Sense of History compiled by American Heritage Press Inc., p. 103 (1985, American Heritage Press, Inc., New York, NY.)
Finally let's hear from James Madison: "What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy." Madison also objected to state-supported chaplains in Congress and to the exemption of churches from taxation. He wrote: "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
These founding fathers were a reflection of the American population. Having escaped from the state-established religions of Europe, only 7% of the people in the 13 colonies belonged to a church when the Declaration of Independence was signed. They knew no religion is capable of handling political power without becoming corrupted by it. Even .the original Pledge of Allegiance—meant as an expression of patriotism, not religious faith—also made no mention of God. The pledge was written in 1892 by the socialist Francis Bellamy, a cousin of the famous radical writer Edward Bellamy. Its wording omitted reference not only to God but also, interestingly, to the United States:
"I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The key words for Bellamy were "indivisible," which recalled the Civil War and the triumph of federal union over states' rights, and "liberty and justice for all," which was supposed to strike a balance between equality and individual freedom. By the 1920s, reciting the pledge had become a ritual in many public schools. The words "my flag" were changed to "the flag of the United States of America" in the 1920s. Congress added the words "under God" in 1954, when the greatest threat to the United States was the "godless" Soviet Union.
Now I just provided you all with some facts of history not well know, but I will leave it up to you the reader. The Founding Fathers, Christian? Fact or myth?
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation, ." The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
Still in doubt I know, so I am going to place some quotes from some of the founding fathers themselves on this matter. Let's start with Thomas Jefferson:
"I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth." SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS,
by John E. Remsburg, letter to William Short.
One more by Thomas Jefferson:
"The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ'" (don't attack me I'm only quoting)
How about George Washington, the first president of the United States, never declared himself a Christian according to contemporary reports or in any of his voluminous correspondence. Washington Championed the cause of freedom from religious intolerance and compulsion. When John Murray (a Universalist who denied the existence of hell) was invited to become an army chaplain, the other chaplains petitioned Washington for his dismissal. Instead, Washington gave him the appointment. On his deathbed, Washington uttered no words of a religious nature and did not call for a clergyman to be in attendance:
George Washington and Religion by Paul F. Boller Jr., pp. 16, 87, 88, 108, 113, 121, 127 (1963, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, TX)
John Adams: "Where do we find a precept in the Bible for Creeds, Confessions, Doctrines and Oaths, and whole carloads of other trumpery that we find religion encumbered with in these days?" Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli. Article 11 states: The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.
Now on to Thomas Jefferson, third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, said:"I trust that there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian." He referred to the Revelation of St. John as "the ravings of a maniac" and wrote: The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from its indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power, and pre-eminence. The doctrines which flowed from the lips of Jesus himself are within the comprehension of a child; but thousands of volumes have not yet explained the Platonism engrafted on them: and for this obvious reason that nonsense can never be explained,": Thomas Jefferson, an Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie, p. 453 (1974, W.W) Norton and Co. Inc. New York, NY) Quoting a letter by TJ to Alexander Smyth Jan 17, 1825, and Thomas Jefferson, Passionate Pilgrim by Alf Mapp Jr., pp. 246 (1991, Madison Books, Lanham, MD) quoting letter by TJ to John Adams, July 5, 1814.
Ethan Allen, whose capture of Fort Ticonderoga while commanding the Green Mountain Boys helped inspire Congress and the country to pursue the War of Independence, said, "That Jesus Christ was not God is evidence from his own words." In the same book, Allen noted that he was generally "denominated a Deist, the reality of which I never disputed, being conscious that I am no Christian." When Allen married Fanny Buchanan, he stopped his own wedding ceremony when the judge asked him if he promised "to live with Fanny Buchanan agreeable to the laws of God." Allen refused to answer until the judge agreed that the God referred to was the God of Nature, and the laws those "written in the great book of nature" :Religion of the American Enlightenment by G. Adolph Koch, p. 40 (1968, Thomas Crowell Co., New York, NY.) quoting preface and p. 352 of Reason, the Only Oracle of Man and A Sense of History compiled by American Heritage Press Inc., p. 103 (1985, American Heritage Press, Inc., New York, NY.)
Finally let's hear from James Madison: "What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy." Madison also objected to state-supported chaplains in Congress and to the exemption of churches from taxation. He wrote: "Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together."
These founding fathers were a reflection of the American population. Having escaped from the state-established religions of Europe, only 7% of the people in the 13 colonies belonged to a church when the Declaration of Independence was signed. They knew no religion is capable of handling political power without becoming corrupted by it. Even .the original Pledge of Allegiance—meant as an expression of patriotism, not religious faith—also made no mention of God. The pledge was written in 1892 by the socialist Francis Bellamy, a cousin of the famous radical writer Edward Bellamy. Its wording omitted reference not only to God but also, interestingly, to the United States:
"I pledge allegiance to my flag and the republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The key words for Bellamy were "indivisible," which recalled the Civil War and the triumph of federal union over states' rights, and "liberty and justice for all," which was supposed to strike a balance between equality and individual freedom. By the 1920s, reciting the pledge had become a ritual in many public schools. The words "my flag" were changed to "the flag of the United States of America" in the 1920s. Congress added the words "under God" in 1954, when the greatest threat to the United States was the "godless" Soviet Union.
Now I just provided you all with some facts of history not well know, but I will leave it up to you the reader. The Founding Fathers, Christian? Fact or myth?
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Just In One of Those Moods
Ancient Dance
Light, a dim soft glow,
Reaches through the night,
Reflecting in eyes that know,
That dance with giddy delight,
A touch, supple and sure,
Caresses the waiting skin,
Sensation real and pure,
To glorious to be sin,
Meeting in sensual embrace,
Inner fires burn and flair,
Moving with ancient grace,
Cries pierce the air,
Magnificent release,
Inevitable end of the start,
One last delicate kiss,
As ancient lovers part.
Light, a dim soft glow,
Reaches through the night,
Reflecting in eyes that know,
That dance with giddy delight,
A touch, supple and sure,
Caresses the waiting skin,
Sensation real and pure,
To glorious to be sin,
Meeting in sensual embrace,
Inner fires burn and flair,
Moving with ancient grace,
Cries pierce the air,
Magnificent release,
Inevitable end of the start,
One last delicate kiss,
As ancient lovers part.
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