Simply my Thoughts By: Dean Butler
Today is your child’s birthday, mom has a party planned with guests, gifts, cake, and ice cream. It is also game day and some of your pals want to come over, have a few beers and watch the game. You tell them sure they can have their birthday party in the kitchen, we’ll watch the […]
I try so hard to open my eyes from this coma state of mind. My hand clinching yours is not the twitching kind That tear you see is not from the tremendous pain I bear. Oh yes… I hear you, I am very much aware. All the voices in my room contemplating my demise. I’m […]
I can’t deal with this cruel life any longer. I hate my life; I absolutely hate it. I know my life is irrelevant. No one cares, no one will miss me when I am gone. All that I can see in my life is the pain I have endured. The humility, the rejection, the hate, […]
Fifty years ago we were all grateful for the friends next door, or just down the road. Sometimes we even had friends across the country which we contacted by phone or US mail. Time progressed and social media came into play, connecting people all over the world that otherwise may have never met. Social media […]
It used to be a husband and wife then they had children. Those children married and had children and those children married and had children and this is how families begin. When a son or daughter marries, the family of the bride and the family of the groom become a bigger family. If a man […]
Please don’t open that door that I have locked. What hides behind it is not for others to see. My darkest secrets are hidden there, for all eternity. Never to be known by those I have mocked. The skeletons in that closet are locked away as I laugh and make fun of others. Their father’s, […]
Happiness turns to sorrow; sorrow turns to pain. With each teardrop, I emulate the same. Staring into nowhere looking for something. Never knowing what tomorrow will bring. Tears are wiped away yet their trails will stay. As this moment in time begins another day. Happiness for the moment wondering how long. A tremble in my […]
I so hate you when I love you too. One bright morning in the middle of the night. While in a blinding storm it was in plain sight. To me it’s wrong, and you say it’s right. I’m surrounded by a crowd while all alone. Standing in the rain dry as a bone. It’s where […]
A friend is torn to pieces trying to understand why her son cannot see what she sees in his daughter or love his daughter as she loves her. Why does that seem so difficult? A father wants to be a part of his son’s life, help him grow into a good man. His ex-wife refuses […]
EXCUSES ARE THE TOOLS OF INCOMPETENCE, USED TO BUILD MONUMENTS OF NOTHINGNESS. Arthur unknown Recently I was listening as some people complained about feeling left out of their own family. They know their family loves them and they love their family. Yet they feel left out. So let me share my thoughts on this situation. […]