Barack Obama Hope For America & Martin Luther King Jr.

ANGRY WOMAN


An angry woman opens her mouth

And shuts her mind to reason

She who stays slow to anger Is loved by more each season.

Anger snuffs the lamp of thought

And it's hard to stay serene.
Where anger rules, hatred thrives,
Then the world we love turns mean.

She who fans the coals of hate
Has no reason to complain,

If some hot sparks scorch her face,
Her anguish is thus her pain.

Anger is a human madness

Which consumes the heart and mind.
She who rules his spirit with love,

Shall be praised by all mankind.

THE PRESIDENCY


Those who wish to be President

Must practice what they preach.
For their people need inspiring

To believe what they teach.

Take heed therefore, unto yourselves

You overseers of the flock
Or the voters shall cast you out

For your futures are not of rock.

Life may place you in deep waters

Though it doesn't wish you to drown.
It's your past record that lets us know
Who you are as you smile or frown.

If you wish to be remembered

From the truth you must never part.
Power corrupts the best of us

When we stop listening to our heart.

NEVER BE AFRAID TO BE PROUD of AMERICA


America, the abundant, the place I was born

I'll cherish till the day I die.
Where the bones of past heroes lie buried in the ground

Who loved her the same as I.

Her mountains are so tall they reach for the sky;
With prairies where the green grasses grow.
There's billions of trees where wild birds nest

With creatures that flourish below.

That blue gold called water with which we are blessed
As raindrops or crystallized snow;
Changes to rivers and fresh water lakes
While the winds of our seasons blow.

There's the haunt of a whistle from a lonely freight train

Racing on ribbons of steel
With the harvest of farms and from the factories

Balanced in a box on a wheel.

Some cities have buildings a hundred stories tall

Structures of concrete, glass and steel.
A statue in a harbor, a present from France,

Describes how inside, we feel.

That flag on the moon with red and white stripes

Proves America’s dreams come true.
A country of heroes who line up to protect

The past, the present and the few.

We’ll defeat terrorism as it should be fought
Never letting Satan’s horde chase us to our door.
Safeguarding our borders and system of life
As our forefathers sacrificed before.

Never be afraid to be proud of America
And march with the brave, faithful and just.
Refusing to summit to the will of our enemies
Standing firm to preserve what we trust.

FREEDOM


In their new uniforms

The young march off
Not knowing who shall return.
With a proud devotion

They brandish their flag
Leaving loved ones to wonder and yearn.

May we all be buried

By all of our children
Is an ancient tribal prayer.
They're so easy to lose

But so hard to forget;

Such a burden for a parent to bear.

The taste of victory

Shall soon be forgotten;

But, never that which was lost.
For those rows of white headstones

In peaceful green fields
Make it easy to tally the cost.

America has survived all attempts to destroy

Knowing the cruelty of war

And we who remain

Must help keep her free
For those who can march no more!

LIFE


Life's a book written through

Where the pages are the years.
There's good, evil, false and true

With laughter, sweat, and tears.

Our days are songs composed by

God, As we set them to music with pleasure.
His cup of life is for us to drink

Though, He, decides the measure.

Hurried and worried, dawn till dusk

There's no time for a curtain call.

We burn our candles from both ends

And we're lucky to be alive at all.

Cards are shuffled and hands are dealt

For all to place their bets.
Youthful blunders, adulthood struggles

And old age with its regrets.

It matters not, how long we live

But more, how well we play our part.
For the road to heaven is always near

As long as there's truth in our heart.

AFTER DEATH


The joy of life is like a fading flower
And the wrath of death is to shrivel and decay.
Committing our spirits to either right or wrong
Simply by how we choose to live our night or day.

After death the wicked cease to be troublesome
And all who are weary have forever to rest.
People who apply their heart to seek out wisdom
Are lovingly remembered by all they have blessed.

Let there be no sad farewell after we have gone
Hopefully to heaven, where worthy souls live on.
Searching for reunion with others we once knew
Be they Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or Jew.

WAR IS THE GREATEST PLAGUE OF MAN


As war is fought it takes charge
And events spin out of control.
The madness of men can alter the soil
Which nourishes the roots of their soul.

Many things will forever change
Far more then wished to be.
As the wrath of war starts to destroy
Those things we fight to keep free.

War is the greatest plague of man,
Religion, state and sanity.
Any scourge is more preferred
Than the one which disables humanity.

When war breaks out, boundaries change
And all who die are a token
Of the rage that must run it's course
Before words of peace are spoken.

War I hate, though not men, flags nor race

But war itself with its ugly face.
When we lose faith in the brave, which die
Then we're not fit to greet those who cry.

What distinguishes war isn't death

But that man is slain by fellow man.
Crushed by cruelty and injustice

With his enemy's murderous hand.

War tends to punish the punishers
So the losers won't suffer alone.
The essence of war is but violence
Till the survivors come marching home.

Sometimes it's hard to defend what's right,

Sometimes we're forced to rise up and fight.
Sometimes we survive, while others must die

Sometimes never knowing the reason why.

The rush of combat is a natural buzz

Caused by fear, leaving nothing as it was.
Hunting one another like wild game

Without a shortage of those to blame.

Sometimes victory comes too slow or quick

Sometimes the cost on both sides is sick.
Sometimes God is asked to intervene

To help stop the savage from being so mean.

War is a hell we visit before death

Fueled by the whisper of the devil's breath.
There must be a reason man destroys man
But why it is so, I can't understand.

CHARACTER


Some of us are as God planned

Though many are far worse.
Our characters are not of marble

So the devil may work his curse.

Fame is what we steal or take

Character is what we give.
To this truth we must awake

So we might begin to live.

There is some good in all of us

Which may not show at first.
With good character of heart and soul

We prepare ourselves for the worst.

Show me a liar and you have found a thief

Whose character is controlled by hell.
They love what's wrong and hate what's right

And they're lucky they're not all in jail.

AMERICAN PIONEERS


Pioneers learned to adapt
To their strange demands of life;
From the moment they left home
With their wagon, children and wife.

The lone hunter of the past

Was just a man who wandered.
He returned with pelts and stories

Of campsites by the hundred.

Pioneer families planted corn

For they intended to stay.
Hostile Indians waged their war

As both sides lost loves each day.

Mother, father and each child

Had their duties to survive.
Exposed to the harsh frontier
They learned to struggle and strive.

They carved their place in history
With their lives, prayers, sweat and tools;

The builders of roads, towns, cities,
Churches, bridges, mills and schools.

THE CIVIL WAR


In 1860 life was good

Till its simpleness ceased one day.
The North wished to save the

Union While the South chose to break away.

America was torn apart

As six hundred thousand died.
Throughout four years of total war

Women without husbands cried.

The sad fact of the Civil War
Is what was left at its end.
Too many times, men's evil acts

Destroyed both foe and friend.

The problem was, once it began,

There was no peace or compromise.
Total victory must be proclaimed

Before rage would leave men’s eyes.

Destroy all that helps the enemy

Was the cry of either side.
Anything to obtain victory,
As death on horseback did ride.

Black men dressed in old uniforms

Became the Union's reserve.
They fought and died for their freedom
And their rights they earned and deserve.

Lifestyles would forever change

For all who survived the war.
It had ended as it began,

With sadness, misery and more.

Both sides prayed to the same God
And spoke words from the Bible.
The prayers of both were not answered
For all involved were liable.

SLAVERY


When you chain the neck of a slave

The other end fastens to you.
Your heart and soul become corrupt

And all which is evil you’ll do.

No government shall exist for long

Who's people are not really free.
Though around the world there are those

Who stay blind to how life should be.

Any who must enslave others

Will dwell in their own living hell

After death, they’ll join their master

In that place from heaven he fell.

But till then we’ll fight and resist

Making them put their chains away.

And those of us who may die first

From heaven shall watch and pray.

BRAVERY


Many brave souls lived before now

Unwept and unknown by their face.
Lost somewhere in the distant night

Till a poet chronicles their grace.

True bravery is shown by performing

Without witness what one might be
Capable of before the world

Without any or all to see.

How great the brave who rest in peace

All blessings from heaven to earth.
They gave our country but their best

Those destined to be brave from birth.

SOLDIER FOR THE LORD


I'm a soldier for the Lord

Who's been up and who's been down
Though while on the battlefieldI

Have never turned around.

I face more than flesh and blood

With the devil's evil hoard.
But they shall not steal my soul.For

I swing my Lord's swift sword.

I wear all of God's armor;

With helmet, breastplate and shield.
As Satan’s arrows fly by

From his archers of the field.

The devil casts his dark net
Over any he may charm.
He’ll lead the from salvation

With has hands upon their arm.

I battle evil daily And

I pray that you’ll join me.
We're not alone in this world
For we're loved and watched by Thee.

HATRED


Hatred has plagued man since we wore skins of fur
Beating our enemies with stick and stone.
History has proven what we refuse to learn
As the seeds of hate by conflict are sown.

It's a fact, hate has been caused by religion

Or by those of different pigment of skin.
It's also a fact it's mostly jealousy

Mixed with the stupidity of men.

If hatred consumes you refuse it control

For only then can you begin to live.
We don't have to remain wicked and spiteful

We just have to be willing to forgive.

HAPPINESS


Our happiness doesn’t always depend
On our social standing in life.
Instead good health, with just pursuits
And the love of a child, husband or wife.

Whatever the blessings life may bring
We gladly clutch despite our desires.
Happiness grows like fruit on the vine
Unwelcome to be plucked by liars.

We’re never as happy or unhappy
As we suppose ourselves to be.
Sadly, some live half a lifetime
Before the light of knowledge we see.

True happiness is a wonderful gift
A joy of life, from God to man.
Though most fear it can’t last
We pray to have it, as long as we can.

Happiness helps prolong our days
Though most human joys are swift of wing.
Heaven allots how much we’ll have
As of love and deliverance we sing.

LABOR


Our workers are our saviors

The redeemers of every race.
From those who built the pyramids

To the rockets for outer space.

With our fingers weary and worn

And our eyelids heavy and red,
We feel we've earned God's blessings

As we lay down our sleepy head.

After death there’ll be lots of rest

Though the living must suffer toil

For every thing that man must have,

Comes from the air, the sea and soil.

"Yes" labor is part of life on earth

For without it we make no gains.
By work we receive life's rewards

As fortunes are made by our pains.

LIBERTY


Liberty is to be free and independent

Without slavery, imprisonment, or loss of right.
Though bit-by-bit many try to steal it away
For if they were to take it all at once, we'd fight.

So protect your liberty that others don't have

For beside life, there's nothing more precious on earth.
Too many have yearned, fought, suffered, and died for it.
And we must never lose sight of what liberty's worth.

Evil loves to strike liberty from the cheeks of all
And it's been that way since the beginning of time.
For a mind that's not allowed to have a free thought.
Becomes but a slave to the masters of mankind.

FAME


Those who wish to be, not forgotten
Just days after they're dead and gone
Must write such things worth remembering

Or commit acts, worth passing on.

We think highly of those who create
Goodness and beauty around them.
But those who squander their lives away

Our predictions for them are grim.

The fame of people should always be
Estimated by the means they used.
It’s human breath that promotes most fame

Often unwholesome and abused.

The perfume of good deeds projects fame

Performed by those with great passion.
Not by persons in corrupt temples
Whose honesty, they must ration.

JUSTICE


The path of justice shines like a light

On any whose guilt is known by all.
There's no virtue so truly great

As when the sword of justice must fall.

Except for the selfish of earth

That, which is unjust, pleases none.
I would rather die in exile

Than be a victim on the run.

Those who pass judgment to quickly

Without hearing the other side
Never wish to be just at all
But wicked and shallow inside.

The spirits of the just are kind
For hate has not consumed their soul.
The mills of judgment grind slowly
When justice with mercy's our goal.

PATRIOTS


They choose their opportunities
To become strong, not weak
By pulling up their boot straps
They acquire the dreams they seek.

Their personal goals of well being
Will never stand in the way
Of doing their public duty
No matter what others may say.

Their devotion shall prove contagious
It's the brilliance of their kind.
What you find in most of them
Is great character of mind.

With faith and courage, they must live
For their lives to be complete.
With good morals and family life
They’ll triumph, even in defeat.

They’re raised to participate
Within their community
With their fellow men and women
They enrich life and liberty.

OUR FLAG


Our flag is fabric wove of thread
Carried by heroes live and dead.
She stands for justice and courage too

With her colors; red, white and blue.

For all who serve her, there’ll be cheers

For any who die, there’ll be tears

For all who love her, life is swell

For those who harm her, war is hell.

How many moms have cried before

As they sent their children to war.
How many dads have not returned

Because our freedom must be earned.

Wars were waged where brave men died

As patriots fought side by side.

Our flag is still the pearl of earth
Because of those who prove her worth.

THE JUST AND THE UNJUST


The just and the unjust shall clash as before

As both sides seek victory valor and more.

The tyrants of evil hate that which is good
Freedom, with justice, living life, as we should.

Where the oppressed suffer the heartless rule

Using murder, fear and torture as a tool.
With a twisted mind they cause others to die

Their souls are corrupted from living a lie.

At the end of their rain most are jailed or killed

The remains of their victims litter the field.
After death, they're judged through history by us all

Condemned for ignoring sweet liberty's call.

For as long as mankind has struggled on earth

Most seek a path, to show others their worth.

While the just feel compelled to defend what's right

The unjust ravage, plunder, and kill with spite.



POLITICIANS


Most of the time as a politician stands up

Along with the truth, their brain sits down.
Promising anything and everything to anyone

While posing to the public, to be on common ground.

The higher the office the greater the corruption

As candidates compete for those dead presidents of green.
While we're taxed to death to fund their pork

Our cost for everything has become obscene.

Thank God there are some better than most
Not squeaky clean, but more honest than others.
Regardless of party, they deserve our vote
For they share our thoughts like sisters and brothers.

Politicians who wish to be revered by history

Must earn their fame by living the truth.
Any who continue to mislead and deceive

Must be shunned by the voter at the booth.

INTEGRITY

What Satan has planned for our harm

Integrity will transform to good.

Adhering to morals gives us peace

Teaching us to respond, as we should.

Sometimes we must go against the flow

Questioning what our sheppard’s may say.

For they are not God, only human

And for their integrity, we pray.

Though faith we can stay undiminished

Keeping ourselves entire and whole.

Avoiding human hate and mistrust

While struggling to preserve our soul.

With honor we obtain uprightness

And by love and compliance we gain grace.

Integrity gives us proper goals

Improving the standard of our race.

Those who laugh at the straight and narrow

Will not hear God's answer to their cry.

Those who yearn to earn their integrity

Must not steal, persecute, or lie.

FORMIDABLE FOE


America is the birthday cake of earth

As the ants march from every direction.
Thank God for all who have sworn to defend her

Serving with love, honor, pride, and affection.

Since the first day George Washington marched off to war

There have been those who have wished our demise.
Their hatred, fueled by jealousy and greed

Was defeated by our brave and the wise.

Once again, we must face a formidable foe

Who have pledged by their God to destroy us all
Misusing their faith as an excuse to kill

As for a worldwide jihad, their leaders call.

Some say we should try to appease them

For if we resist, they’ll hate us even more.
But the David's among us shall cast our stones

Defeating them, as it was done before.

SOMETIMES


I'm a soldier, who fights on foreign soil

Some say, we're here, because of oil.
But, I'll do my duty and proudly serve

Knowing death may await me around the curve.

Sometimes it's hard to defend what's right,

Sometimes we're forced to rise up and fight.
Sometimes we survive, while others must die

Sometimes never knowing the reason why.

The rush of combat is a natural buzz

Caused by fear, leaving nothing as it was.
Hunting one another like wild game

Without a shortage of those to blame.

Sometimes victory comes too slow or quick

Sometimes the cost on both sides is sick.
Sometimes God is asked to intervene

To help stop the savage from being so mean.

War is a hell we visit before death

Fueled by the whisper of the devil's breath.
There must be a reason man destroys man
But why it is so, I can't understand.

PEACE


The people of earth face many problems
Struggling to make their living and maintain peace.
There are differences in language, faith and race
With misguided hate unwilling to cease.

To solve these problems that plague mankind

Man must strive as never before.
Demanding justice with truth in settling disputes

While recalling with pain, the casualties of war.

War is an emotional release for man

Practiced since the first stones were cast.
Could it be nature's way of thinning the numbers

As the fallen are consumed by the past.

May the future show mercy on all who survive

With their visions of innocence forever lost.
Prayerfully, someday man will cease wagging war
Avoiding through peace it's consequence and cost.

THE HINGE of HISTORY


The hinge of history swings in all directions

As the happenings of the past are written down.
Out of all that has occurred since man's beginnings

Less has been recorded than waits to be found.

Babylonians kept chronicles of history
Hebrews wrote the past as a dramatic story.
Greeks had no faith in the future at all
Believing mans repeated errors doom his glory.

Christians added a new dimension to history
Looking forward to Christ’s return to earth.
An on going drama involving man and God
Believing all are created of equal worth.

Some have asked why must we study history

It just encourages us to live in the past.
When we forget history we repeat its mistakes

As the outcome of humanity is cast.

SHOULDER TO SHOULDER


Americans harmonize in sentiment

While facing the challenges of life.

Shoulder to shoulder we defined our land
Through hardship, sacrifice and strife.

We are eager to oppose our enemies

Wherever they raise their head.
Our principles must be practiced

To avoid being conquered or dead.

We fail to see the merits of a dictator
Only freedom to work and pray as we please.
Most seek guidance from a higher power
As we share our concerns on our knees.

We have always held liberty close to our hearts
Unwilling to surrender to demise.
Whenever its existence was threatened
We have chosen to follow the wise.

We can’t foresee what the future may bring
Though we give it our best not to fail.
Every 4th of July we illuminate the sky
Proving freedom is alive and well.



AMERICAN SOLDIER


Our soldiers line up to be remembered

As the best of the best at their job.

They wish to be needed and depended on

To save all we love from the mob.

They risk their life and limb for liberty
Standing firm against evil unwilling to break.

To be part of something greater than themselves
They are willing to sacrifice whatever it will take.



MYSTICAL JOURNEY


Children identify with our fears
Where adults share our dreams.
Life is a mystical journey
With laughter, sadness and schemes.

A never-ending quest of struggle
Where everyone has their role.
Sometimes wrong, sometimes right
Facing problems, which take their toll.

Even the beautiful someday shall fade
As year after year they grow old.
With aches, pains, wrinkles and grief
The answers of a lifetime unfold.

How long will we be remembered
For better or for worse?
For being tender and understanding
Or just another person’s curse.

Truthful and honest with family or friends
Staying clear of any who lie or sneak.
Guarding against actions selfish, and cruel
Free to be generous and unique.

After death who will miss us
When to heaven we have gone?
Will family cry our name in tears
As in their hearts we live on?

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.


Reverend King, one of the most influential black leaders
To ever march for civil rights and justice
Was born to a minister and a teacher of school.
Educated to where he earned his P.H.D.
Becoming a pastor marching against what was unfair and cruel.

Leading a boycott to protest bus segregation
He gained national prominence in 1955 and 56.
As he preached and marched for freedom for all
He was jailed, threatened, spat on, and beaten
As for peaceful demonstration he would call.

Marching to Washington, D.C. In 1963
He was one of the leaders of faith
Voicing concern for the plight of the poor.
Soon there after, he was killed by a sniper
In Memphis, supporting workers rights and more.

King dedicated one of his books to his children
Praising God and praying for mankind’s future
With words for all to prayerfully remember.
To be judged, not by color, but by character
Shunning violence never to surrender.

Dr. King will be remembered down through history
As a man whose mission in life was the enrichment of others.
“A Soldier For The Lord” with goodness of heart
Risking everything for man’s freedom and equality.
From his legacy of self-sacrifice we must refuse to part.

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