"NEW BUT USED"


It's new to me but it's really used
We live in a world with children abused
Today there was a gasoline crunch
Tomorrow someone will go without lunch
You stand in lines for things you need
Or do you really? Maybe it's greed
Why must we be someone we're not
Shouldn't we be happy with what we've got
Some protest the building of a nuclear plant sight
They march, picket, and sometimes fight
The religious movement will come to an end
When each of the faiths, they must defend
Everything this earth has to give is free
Why must we charge an outrageous fee?
Will there ever be a cancer cure?
Sit back, relax, and have another beer
The government taxes everything we buy, sell and own
And that's why the people bitch and moan
The oceans are polluted by some oil tanker spill
We turn down our thermostat and catch a chill
The boat people were put adrift in the ocean to die
While millions of people didn't even bat an eye
We must try to help and understand
The entire race of our fellow man
The society we live in, is winner take all
But sooner or later, that winner will fall
Women are degraded by unwanted men
Sometimes they're convicted and sent to the pen
The endangered species of the earth
Have been fighting for survival, since their day of birth
We board a plane to fly somewhere
But the engine falls off in the air
The violence I see on a television show
Is nothing compared to the real life I know
On Halloween night, the children go trick or treat
But how many will die from the candy they'll eat?
Peace on this Earth shall never be
Until we open up our eyes and see
The damage we've caused unto our own kind
It could bring insanity to any mind
In a day when everyone is separated by race
Maybe we'll destroy ourselves beyond a trace
There's only one thing that I know to do
And that's to turn to God, and start over new
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away
Let us now bow our heads in forgiveness, and pray


October 1979, RLH

"TRANSITION OF LIFE"

Nine months of preparation, it takes us to be born
Then from the womb we're pulled, and the cord of life is torn
Our world of protection, the security we once had
Has left us now, and its all but gone, except for mom and dad
The parent's job has just begun, they must teach us all they know
For every day we live and learn, as the mind and body grow
The body only grows so much, until its fully grown
But the mind keeps growing and never stops, by learning knowledge we've never known
The one thing that we learn in life, the only thing of which we're sure
Is that from the time of birth we experience this thing called life, for which there is no cure
We have all been placed upon this world and we have all asked the question why?
The answer is to experience life and death, for each and every one of us will surely, live and die
But we have nothing to fear from death itself, only the fear of not knowing
For none of us can truly say what it will be like, or where we're going
It must be harder to be born, than it is for us to die
Facts are facts, and truth is truth, and they cannot tell a lie
It takes nine months for us to be born, into our earthly position
But only one second, for us to pass, into our final transition


September 1979, RLH