Becoming Great

I am, you are, we are responsible.
Through choice and action
We design and build
Our lives.

I am, you are, we are creative.
Through active and purposeful intent
We bring our light
Into the world.

I am, you are, we are receptive.
Through our faith, hope, and love
We grow in our understanding,
Wisdom, and personal power.

I am, you are, we are what we believe.
Through our vision,
Goals and objectives
We pursue and persevere
In our dreams and aspirations.

I am, you are, we are becoming.
Through fostering,
Caring for, and
Nourishing others
We become great and
Eternally one with the ways of heaven.

I am, you are, we are great people.
Through working with superior people
We bring all people to the way of greatness.

by John E Spriggs
8/14/2007

Somebody

Daddy.
Oh, Daddy.
Please be there, Daddy.

I am sore to the bone.

My heart warms me
Like some cold,
Granite gray tombstone
Buried beneath
My bulging breast.

I am dead to my friends.
They would not know me
Even if we passed on the street.

No one comes to visit.

I am a lost child
To my family.

I am so lost
In the cold and
Darkness of this misery.

Marriage smells of prison
And rips me open
To spew venom and
Bile upon my most private
And precious parts.

I forever exist within
A cloud of stench.

The smell of urine haunts me
Worse than death itself.

I now know
That I am
The Mother of Death
For I have birthed
It’s remains.

What once lived within me
Has turned into a horror.

I alone turned a life
Into some stone-cold,
Hideous resemblance
Of a man-child.

What once moved and kicked
And wiggled within my womb,
Now cries and screams
It’s agonies
Into the deathly silence
That now smothers me.

Daddy, I cannot endure
This pain alone.

Please, somebody
Help me.

By John E Spriggs
August 29, 2007

Empathy and Bias

Empathy with the plaintiff.

Pity for the defendant.

The closest thing to bias here is mercy.

Without mercy, impartial judgment

Comes too close to cruelty,

Indifference and lack of compassion.

Law without mercy

Is a curse on the people

And the lawmakers

Who champion this evil.

Entreaties

Whispering clouds speak
Nascent entreaties to peak
Earth's languid bosom.

The Getting

Loving hearts dispense
the giving love and figure
more remains to give.

Lurking Weapons

Massive weapons lurk
Within President Bush's mind
Not in Saddam's caves.

Nuremburg

Nuremburg redux -
crimes against humanity
need prosecution.