In the Shadows (Serenity)

Twilight creeps where shadows grasp,
A tender heart awakes but can’t sleep.
With every whisper and every spark,
A beacon shines and lights the dark.


Who lifts the veil, dispelling fear,
A gentle touch, a voice so sincere.
In tangled thoughts and heavy rain,
They weave the light to ease a pain.


In laughter shared and stories spun,
Two souls collide, in light as one.
Hand in hand, they face the night,
Together, both forge paths of light.


When burdens weigh and spirits wane,
A loving glance can break the chain.
In darkest hours, their warmth remains,
A word that is made to ease the pains.


So, here’s to those who's love is bright,  
Who turn the dark into purest light.  
In every moment, let it be known,  
In love’s embrace you’re never alone.

by, Sheilah Say 05.13.2025

Take This, May It Sever You Well!

Preamble

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

America

An American Reproach

My country tis of thee,

Our land it’s of you,Sweet land of liberty,

This place of careless police brutality,Of thee I sing.

Oh this I say.Land where my father’s died!

Cities where innocent die!!Land of the Pilgrim's pride!

Cities where police are allowed to lie!!From every mountain side,

In each community,Let freedom ring!

The fallen did reside!!

My native country, thee,

A country in which stolen,Land of the noble free,

Becoming a sewer swollen,Thy name I love.

But thee I love.I love thy rocks and rills,

Look and see what has begun,Thy woods and templed hills;

Too lush forests and blue waters;My heart with rapture fillsAnd the rape is yet doneLike that above.

To sounds of rapid fired guns!!

Let music swell the breeze,

Let all requiem bells toll, And ring from all the trees

Let them ring throughout this landSweet freedom's song.

No longer is freedom song.Let mortal tongues awake;

No longer a new dawn comes;Let all that breathe partake;

Citizens unite and awake;Let rocks their silence break,

Because soon it will be too late,The sound prolong.

Get up and on your feet!!

Our father's God to, Thee,

Our new God is, thee,Author of liberty,

Thief of our liberty’s,To Thee we sing.

Robber of posterity and tranquility.

Long may our land be bright

Subversive of life’s pursuitsWith freedom's holy light;

Leeches of the Bill of Rights;Protect us by Thy might,

Your protection used with might!!Great God, our King!

Our God, our government is thee!!!

All BOLD above by: Sheilah Say
Except for Preamble

Sheilah Say

Guess That Verse

1. In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate!
2. Praise be to Allah, who the three worlds made.
3. The Merciful, the Compassionate,
4. The King of the day of Fate.
5. Thee alone do we worship, and of thee alone do we ask aid.
6. Guide us to the path that is straight–
7. The path of those to whom thy love is great,
             Not those on whom is hate,
                     Nor they that deviate.

Requiem For A World

There isn’t a song for this planet,

Living breathing world of granite.

Look to its future can’t you see,

Poisoning dying slow by degree.

This passion to heal without a desire,

Bringing only muck, ruin and mire.

The worlds night light with oil fires,

Not to fear say the corporate liars.

Air smelling more foul not pleasant,

Earths people just pray to their God.

What’s the solution to this our plight,

Will it end with not an end in sight.

We opted for flight instead of fight,

Deaths door roams with it a blight.

Soon the fires slowly turn to pyres,

And living on a world that’s dying.

The requiem starts soon take a seat,

Not only a mass for the masses dead.

Requiem Mass for a planet set dying,

A Mass is for only dying or deceased.

This Mass of the Dead already arrived.

By Sheilah Say

New Pledge

Upon Us Again, The Holidays Are Dead

Here come ‘dem holidays again. Making Sam and Ben happy when you spend. First comes the big feast. Over stuffed beast shoved passed the teeth. When it’s all over sit with a huge drink. Plop ourselves the legs are up. Listening to a beat out  of a box. There it be between the feet. Don’t you wish you had a box seat?

Later comes the Friday in black. All the merchants are glad to too see it back. People shop here, they shop over there, any shop everywhere. So much traffic goes ‘round and ‘round. Ol’ Ben now wears a happy gold crown. Going on for more than three weeks. Make a head spin until the peak. Oh how all is so clean even nature has a commercial gleam.

Mothers and fathers with daughters and son’s. But this day comes mostly for little ones. A day the credo’s supposedly for all. Better to give to that of receiving at all. But in the end everyone receiving gives their all. Little ones scamper to a tree trimmed and gleaming. (The origins of which are known to us). To open up their little giving’s of tidings and joy.

We bask in happiness of the joyfulness of what a gift brings for all.

Scrambling to unwrap their scribbled on names. Next comes the cleanup than followed by a great feast. Equaled too that  of the one before the shopping black day. Then they get up and walk from the hall. Satisfied and had their fill. Go and sit back to relax. Watching that box from between the feet. When the day has gone and night falls without a sound. We all head to sleep snuggled within our beds. Dreaming dreams of sleighs, bells and dancing fire light. We look for another wonderful year ahead.

Wait! Has something been forgotten? No not a something but a someone. These are the ones, you know you like to forget, asking for money and receive many chides. They walk a beat seeking something to eat. Their unwrapped gift is perhaps a meal at a shelter. Where when a new dawning of day. These forgotten are shuffled away. The gift that keeps on giving to those who receive it daily.

So isn’t giving wonderful and fulfilling. Would you rather read more of the ones with holes in their knees, asleep under trees in the street.

Now most just do what others do. Sweep them aside to the gutter without a clue. Not out of sight but out of their minds. Going through the new year as blissful like those who sit in front of a tube. After all isn’t there place and others that take care of them, they say.

There is no moral or happiness for these people of a city street. They’re not going away just become invisible like someone annoying in the backseat. Only thing that will happen come this time next year. People shuffling around them some out of fear. Their numbers shall grow so what shall we do. Would you hide in the sand or become a leader of a whole new band.

A gift for another is happiness. A gift, from our hands.

Sheilah Say

11.18.2011 Revised 11.09.2013

An Open Letter To The President of The United States of America

Dear Mr. President/Barrack Obama/Sir,
    So, You want to get reelected. With Mitt Romney running against you. Your second term would seem to be a shoe in.

     Though what have you done!
    Al Qaeda; Excellent call there..
    Health Care; Well let’s face it you rolled over into submission. Hey! There were a lot of people counting on you. [I was not one of them, for the record].
    Medical Marijuana: That was a campaign promise. Wasn’t it? Oh I see Those were just to bring in more voters. Like when Jimmy Carter ran and said he would decimalize it. Well at least he had an excuse for reneging. As weak as it was. What’s your excuse?

Like many others I also voted for you. Not for health care, *DADT, Afghanistan or the dream act. As important as these issues are. It was for the change.

Eighth years of a President in which all he did was increase the debt. Not that I wasn’t aware you would also increase the debt. It seemed some change was needed.


     Okay, know there was the hope for bipartisan support. Which you so blindly wanted. Even though the GOP wanted to make you a one term President.

    At the beginning of your Presidency both the lower and upper Congress were controlled by Democrats. You seemingly piddled that majority away. In the slim hope of bipartisanism. You were for all intents and purposes looking like a closet Republican.

    Now you want my vote again. Mr. President why should I? What will you do in your second term that will be different from the first. Increase your harassment of medical marijuana people? President Bush at least left that to the States.

    Why not do something important. Like close down some the useless departments in the federal government? [I’m not talking about Medicare or social security either]. You would set a precedent. Not to mention cut the budget.
    What about lobbyist? There’s a campaign promise made that nothing was done about. Wall street. What about wall street and banks to big to fail? You said there would be legislation to rein these corporations in?

So Mr. President, please tell me why I should vote for you?

                         Respectfully,
                            Sheilah Say
   
*Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

And So This We Know

What is this that we know

Who has gone so far

Maybe it's war again

With someone's friend
 And so this we know

Was evil ever any good

For those in the past

Then for the future again
 

Do we leave it all up to

Politicians and their men

And just sit at home

Indulging in what is sin
 

What is this that we do

Being selfish and rude

With all the rest who live

Inside this tiny room
Get what they can, go on
Then be gone again
The door is left open
Skies fall on blind eyes
 

Do we leave it all up to
Those that have big plans
Or sit on our fat chairs
Playing seek and go hide
 
What is this that we are
Little children without care
See calm before a storm
Trash and nonsense in air 

Could it all be undone
Why not stare and pretend
Fixated on a flat screen
We'll just press send
 
Who will we leave it up to
If know one does care
Peoples of our future
Perhaps just on a dare
 
And so this we know
Knowing what it is
I'll leave it to you
And pick up over there
 
Sheilah Say

Many Things

  Friday evening I was watching Countdown with Keith Olbermann on Current TV. For those who are unfamiliar with Keith Olbermann. He is a political commentator, writer and Chief News Officer for Current TV.
  His Countdown show segmented into news worthy commentaries. One segment was on Michele Bachmann's husband Marcus and what he said about gays. Michele Bachmann is trying to be her parties nomination for President of the United States.
  Her husband has said that "gays are barbarians".

  I have been called many names in my lifetime. Barbarians has not been one of them. How this excuse for a homo sapien can judge another is beyond me. I maybe a lot of things but I an no barbarian.
If I weren't saddened by another judgement call, by one who calls himself Christian. I would have rolled on the floor in laughter.
Michele Bachmann and husband Marcus is the reason I distance myself from organized religion. Especially Christianity.

Sheilah Say           

Free Will الإرادة الحرة

ونحن جميعا نعيش حياتنا وفقا لإرادة حرة. وهبت الإرادة الحرة في كل واحد منا عند الولادة. ومن الإرادة الحرة مما يجعل كل قراراتنا سواء كنت تعتقد أن هذا أم لا هو اختيارك. (انظر الإرادة الحرة في العمل).

ليس هناك سوى حق واحد صحيح. لا يمكن أن يكون هذا الحق أخذ منا. لا بأي شكل من الأشكال. أنا أتحدث عن الإرادة الحرة. وهبت لنا من في بداية عصرنا. كيف نستخدم هذه الإرادة الحرة 'هو موقفنا' اختيار '. ومن المزايا الأخرى لاختيار 'الإرادة الحرة. لدينا 'اختيار' كيف نستخدم حقنا لا يمكن إنكارها. إذا كنت بحاجة إلى مثال على ذلك. مجرد قراءة صحيفة يومية. يبدو لي أن أكبر استخدام 'اختيار' من خلال 'الإرادة الحرة. هي السيطرة. على وجه التحديد ، والسيطرة على الشعوب الأخرى الإرادة الحرة.

حقائق وجه دعونا. السيطرة على شخص أو مجموعة من الناس. ثم يمكنك التحكم في كيفية اختيار لاستخدامها 'الإرادة الحرة.

والمسيء كبيرة من هذه السيطرة والحكومات. عن طريق استخدام الرقابة وغيرها من وسائل وحشية في كثير من الأحيان. أكبر المسيء أن التاريخ قد تعرف. هو الدين المنظم. اليوم ، في عصرنا ، فهي لا تزال أكبر. السيطرة على الناس عن طريق تخريب 'الكتاب المقدس'. الديانتين الرئيستين في عالمنا. السيطرة على 2 مليار شخص. الكنيسة الكاثوليكية وحدها 750000000 أبناء الرعية. الإسلام 1000000000 اعطاء بحمد الله تعالى. يمكنك أن تتخيل السيطرة؟ الدين هو السبب الرئيسي للدولة اليوم الاضطرابات. على التفكير ، وبدأ كل شيء مع الكنيسة الكاثوليكية. ألفية ونصف. عندما تقرر بالنسبة لنا. وكان هذا التقدم سيئة. حتى لأكثر من 900 سنة. الخراف التي كنا آنذاك. بعد طول عمياء. كل ذلك يأتي نزولا إلى 1 شخص واحد. اتخاذ القرارات بالنسبة للجماهير. هذا هو السبب في أنني أرفض للاكتتاب ، أو أؤيد أي نوع من الدين المنظم.

وهو يحتوي على جميع القيام به مع 'الإرادة الحرة' والسيطرة على 'اختيار'. لكنني كنت أشعر بالملل شيء لك بما فيه الكفاية. نقطة التشدق كل هذا. كن حذرا. البحث عن نفسك بين مختلف 'الحقيقة' و 'الشر'. هناك المزيد من مروجي الشر في العالم اليوم. ثم في أي وقت في تاريخ كوكبنا. لا تسمح لكم الإرادة الحرة 'و' الاختيار 'لتكون منحرفة من جانب آخر. انها لك. انه ينتمي لك. استخدامها بحكمة على حد سواء.

 الإرادة الحرة يؤدي أيضا لنا لاتخاذ القرارات التي تتحول إلى أن  تكون السيئة. لقد جعلت عددا من القرارات التي تحولت الى السيئة.  ومع ذلك لا شيء التي أحرجت لي في مثل هذه الطريقة. هذا ولقد  تم إعادة النظر في الاتجاه الذي أتكلم. أريد أن أبقى هذا بالطبع ،  لأن "أنا الذي أنا فقط". "كيف لي وأنا هو. الذي سأكون هو لي.  وفي النهاية ، إلا أن يكون لي ". ولكن لن يكون هناك  أوقات عندما  توضع عار على عاتقي. (مرة أخرى الإرادة الحرة  في العمل).  الإرادة الحرة ، والجميع بما في ذلك أنها لم لي كذلك. الارادة  الحرة. ليس هو عظيم!

 قل Sheilah

Parody for None (A General View)

We who are among the vast great majority of unknowing. Either because we’re political aligned [far] right, [far] left or moderate. Religious aligned extremist, conservative or none of the above. And always simply shove our heads in the sand. Rather than learn the WHOLE awkward truth. About a current and/or past event, subject or newest worship. Just cannot go on floundering in ignorant bliss. Which is our knowledgeable world view. And narrow as some of us may be. Better wake up and smell the 21st century.
People are blatantly lying, falsifying truths, sublimely building imagines of fear, ineptitude and loathing. Just to gain the edge for rivalry justification.
This is what our system is slowly gaining acceptance. While losing the voice to question.

Question authority!
Question the voice!
Question the majority of a minority*!

Question but also learn.

"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." (Timothy Leary, Benjamin Franklin)

Sheilah

*Not a race related statement