Suffering

There are so many people suffering from chronic depression. It saddens me that they don't seek the professional help they so desperately need, because modern medications and therapy techniques can free them from their depression. I wrote Suffering as a wake up call to anyone who feels trapped with no way out.

Suffering

She suffered through a lifetime

Filled with grief and pain

Darkness that could never find a light

She sought to make life bearable

Tried time and time again

But now her soul had lost the will to fight

All the years of sadness

Consumed her will to live

She couldn’t find a way to make things right

Exhausted from her struggles

With no strength left to give

She pondered other ways to face her plight

Running out of options

Wanting it to end

The suffering had reached so great a height

A bottle filled with sleeping pills
Was then her only friend
She ended all her suffering last night


Steven Pein
25 September 2010
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Air-raid drill. Everyone get under your desk.

Do you remember when we were kids back in the 1950’s and they used to have air-raid drills at school? They’d have us all get under our desks for safety. Well, that’s the reason they gave us anyway. I think there may have been a different reason, so I wrote Air Raid Shelter to explain it.

Air Raid Shelter

In school so long ago

The sirens used to blow

Warning us of nuclear attacks

And on our teacher’s cue

Beneath our desks we flew

Believing that the teacher had our backs

Why we sat that way

Dawned on me one day

In one of my insightful brilliant flashes

With H-bomb heat so high

Beneath our desks we’d fry

And that would help the folks ID our ashes

18 September 2010

Steven Pein

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Making Do

Retirement is when you relax, travel, and enjoy the fruits of your labors. Well, that's what it's supposed to be.

Making Do

Clipping all the coupons

Hunting for the sales

We’re watching every dime we spend these days

The future’s looking bleaker

With every passing day

And we don’t think this problem’s just a phase

Real estate’s too risky

CD’s don’t pay squat

The Market has us practically in tears

Here we are retired

And we can’t make a dime

On money that we saved up all these years

No sense in complaining

It doesn’t help a bit

We’ll get by no matter what it takes

We’ll eat more hamburgers

We’ll eat franks and beans

And say goodbye to lobsters and to steaks

Steven Pein

14 September 2010

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