When The Day is Done is the Job?

When the Day is done is the Job?

Well I got up and saw the face in the mirror and did not like it, for some reason I did not look like the mainstream but I am! What is wrong with me, why do I feel that everything should be the way I see it and that everyone is all wrong? Now if I am not right then who is and why? Lots of questions are out there and lots of answers too. I can only stand on one and that is just what it is but right or wrong I will put it out there and see what you think.

So this journey begins and only you can tell the end because it really ends with you. Your thought matters and really should be heard but by whom and what for? This is it I am black and the other guy maybe a shade different, where do we take this and where do we say when. Because the rabbit trails are many we have to draw different lines in the sand at different times, for a couple of reasons. 1) The times are a changing and there are really different needs to be met. And 2) so that we have firm foundations to take this thing off the ground and not have good Ideas just die. The fact that I am of different color should not matter but it does, I cannot become that which I cannot see or have never been shown, I have to be shown the possibilities and I need to see the grown up me or something like me.

Well it comes back to this (color, religion, sex and so on) all the time and it makes a perfect since if you look at it from this side of the coin. We! From birth do what our parents has asked of us and we believe what they saw as our difficulties to overcome. But that is not all the media and the news have taken over, and said another story and showed us a different view. I am black and there are other colors of the rainbow that make the standards so different and the fight for some are not so clear, even today.

What to do? Well keep on pushing till it does not even matter; push the barriers out of the way for our children. The barriers like inequality and stigmatisms, and start to celebrate our differences and find the true element of love. We need to teach that some differences are there, but we have some same basic needs that are the same and that we are not without failure or fault. We can overcome the draw backs, and that each of us should be given a chance to do so and teach that forgiveness is not just a word, but it is an action that needs to be taken weather we like it or not. And now I would like to say the Job is not done it is just begun and we have so far to go before we rest. Here is a poem that I wrote some years ago.


Hugs

Here I am standing
My arms at my side
Puffing and blowing
Yet ready to cry

I am the least of your
Neighbors
In a small broken down shack
My front door I can’t open
So I enter from the back

I’ve been living alone here
For more than seven years
I saw when you moved in
I really didn’t care

I know where your church is
Just up the road
You never said anything to me
Not even hello

So what if I am real grumpy
And my life is full of sin
And yes I am a little smelly
But that’s the way I have been

Maybe if you had approached me
And treated me like a man
Maybe I would drop my guard
Then I would shake your hand

With just a little effort
Then God’s love can begin
If you say you love Jesus!
Then hug the lesser man

By GtW 1o-22-o3 cc

I would like to leave this one with you as well I think these go together.

Compassion



Compassion! Whenever I employ it,
My heart leaps for joy.
I am human, with faults!
That I know.

Humbly I express, I care!
Humbly I express, that I am blessed.

Please take my hand, let me truly help!
How else can I show compassion?

I know my faults, and I won’t call out yours.
Please take my hand! No agenda attached,
And I hope you can forgive me for all the things I lack.

By GtW o8-23-o2 cc