IN MEMORY OF LENNY AND SUNSHINE

You are and will always be As one who spawns the nurturance of love in others,
In you it flows endlessly thru all eternities, Carrying disembodied souls to their destinies;
What joy there will be when you and those youve touched can meet again,
Unetched in bone and membrane, But soaring thru space Riding the good of spirit,
Light of heart and peace of mind; Again and again In search of these things,
The wise host knows when to bow in fulfilling acceptance
To the vastness of its fate; Disregarding the limits of flesh and tissue
To embrace its journey to the stars; As it will So may the force of faith,
Draw and hold your mourning child to its tender breast,
And soothe with healing comfort your every wound,
Leaving you filled with the bitter-sweet knowledge of lifes way.

Sunshine was the tenderest of Shepherd dogs with big beautiful soft brown auburn fur.
And the first living breathing being that I could touch and feel without pain
and to love as well as protect me no matter what, and I him. He died of cancer in 1982. Lenny was like my (brother) He died of AIDS; we were separated at the time but I knew. We took turns being parent child friend defending each other from the abuse as adults that stirred our (Multiplicity). (Em 86) All my love, Em


(For My Dearest friend ALICE who found the courage and commitment to work with abused children and their parents every day before her death.)

The PEACE to WAR

Wheres the heart beat? Wheres your heart?
When we know we havent listened to all the cries; that matter!
As they challenge the fortress weve provided for the pain;
While the child within is screaming the one without can be heard rapping at our window;
And trying to get in. As the battle swells inside calling differences the same;
To realize ONE Spirits Heart understanding or deny respect and add shame.
Three times denied today, the Cross has traveled some,

To the littler the weaker, the vulnerable, the ones
Societys Children are paying all the dues,
As sublimated criminals murderers buffoons & Demon fools;
Theyre jailed beaten bound raped and tortured starved abused.
Withheld by Parent care shelter food. Love and Nurtures Essence Mother Earth turned cruel;
Trickle down; Trickle down but when, where and how.
Not only do we know what we do; We hold this illusion up to them demanding gratitude;
This our contribution to humanity applauds gaining off their backs
Off the poor tired the ill the old in fact The more sensitive more feminine,
the small; those we see as powerless and minorities all.
Not in feeble numbers, Strong; in Penance for Integrity The crime of daring to be
For trying to teach us the soft simplicity
A Wisdom born of a natural peace within being who you are.
But weve survived with our spirit here to guide us may we win incessant battles
Emerging to bear witness to the turmoil caused inside;
of SYBILs there are many, we have known in our lifetime
Once children torn and shattered to save their very lives Their Sanity Their Sanity.
I have no interest, need for pity or competing hurt for hurt