Love Is

Learned helplessness is
Who we're in the trenches with.
We can no longer 'plead the fifth'
In times requiring privileges.

What am I talking 'bout
When privileges I tout?
Pop the boxtop and peek out
Amongst the rocks, there are sprouts.

Clearly their futures are in doubt
If we continually choose bail outs,
And watching TV to tune them out.
Stories of pensions and pay that cloud

The true story that's working out.
Educate early to avoid the caper.
Papers, check marks, stars, and staplers
Is not what makes kids cap'ler. Love is.

A Time

There comes a time when every man
Must take a stand and grab the hand
Of someone who truly needs him to
Live out his plan with dreams pursued.

Old and new alike, can be fulfilled
As long as your spirit and heart are deeply filled.
Empathy, sympathy for mass confusion.
For those are the ones needed to realize your conclusion.

Of a peaceful place where smiles are wanted
Not where happiness growth spurts have sadly been stunted.
By things and stuff, and always trying to act so tough.
Now fluff up that pillow and get back in touch.

Hopes and dreams, initially seem
Like a predisposition, where we color the scene.
Sometimes when you get there, you don't even know.
Cuz what 'once was' really isn't, now that you know.