Ancestors and Descendants See a Different Light

Past, Present and Future Colide with Views

Our ancestors gone
By dusk and autumn

Blink no longer
To our forefathers' songs.

We see the sheet music
And try to remember

The sweet memories
That our ancestors told.

We look into books
Of differring ages:

Some tell tales with defining actions.
Some describe a variant pose.

When we decipher
Our forefathers' notions,

We uncover
Their experience and wisdom.

Yet our children
And grandchildren

Awake to the dawn
And the spring

To hear a song
With a different ring.

They've yet
To discover

That experience,
Not books,

Brings to light
Our forefathers' views.

Oh, thank you,
Sweet teachers, who take the time,
To teach our children to read and to rhymn.

But, most of all, we truely thank you,
For teaching them - to learn for themselves.

To think, to ponder, to determine the answer
Of the questions Life gives us, to test our metal.

We thank you for teaching
Them to be shepherds,

Not sheep or lambs
Being led to the slaughter.

That we allow them
To stand on their feet

And to know their place
In their own history.

Copyright © 2009
by
Roger C. Bull

We the People

We the People
Of this great land,
Do hold our governing bodies
To the utmost heights
Of honesty, integrity and morality.

Lest not we forget,
We must hold them
To the brand
Of higher ethics.

It is by doing so
That “We the People”
Maintain the highest regard
For our great nation.

It is our God given rights
To enjoy the responsibilities
And the accountabilities
Of our actions.

We, therefore, must
Demand that our governing authorities
Do likewise:
To hold themselves to these tenets.

For a just nation to remain just,
It must stand fast to the rights of its individual citizens
And to the rights of its states to govern themselves
Accordingly.

Our forefathers fought and died
To bear the fruit of our nation,
The freedom, the justice
And the right to self governing.

Let us not jeopardize the sacrifices
Of those who fought and died
To protect our nation’s gifts
From our forefathers.

Let us hold high
The standards which they made
And displayed
For me and you.

Let us defend those standards
From the harm
Of tyranny
And social injustice.

Do not allow
The politically power-minded
Nor the greedy
To usurp the reins.

It is our government.
It is our vote.
It is our responsibility
To defend “We the People.”

Copyright © 2009
by
Roger C. Bull

We the People

"We the People" was a calling card for our forefathers. The stood up for it. They demanded individual rights. Our forefathers insisted on representation in their government. They fought for it.

What do we have now. We have a cancerous growth that politicians call government. They concern themselves with their own self-interests while our individual rights have gone neglected. Our government is self-propagating. We need to return the reigns of our governing authories to its rightful owners, the people.

Do like our forefathers have done. Stand up for your individual rights, states rights and for representation that respects us, not the governments self-interests.

Place our government in the state of accountability. Return them to responsible decision making, including the planning and maintenance of balanced budgets. Hold them accountable for their actions.

Show them the power of the people. Use your vote. It is your best non-violent weapon. Make yourself immune to politicians' double-speak and innuendo. Listen to what they have to say and read between the lines.

Educate yourself and your children. Don't allow politicians to 'dumb-down' our citizens. Insist on higher education for all of our people, that seek it. Make education affordable again.

We the People must take our stand.

Join your local TEA Party and let our governing authorities hear your voice.