Let us Not

Let us not step over the dead to wax poetic.

Raise your voice and your pen.
To wake those that lazily turn the channel and a blind eye.

Children need us. Their parents need us. Take a stand before we too are knocked down.

Reviews

[Neville]

I'm glad you have now said what so many must surely be thinking .. some words just need to be both shouted and writ .. to be heard and serve as a permanent record for those who might follow in many years to come .. if indeed there are that many years to come .......................... Neville

[Carola]

ahh!! my sentiments entirely, i'm with you cherrie. 👍👍👍
i'm forever writing to politicians, bureaucrats & whomever, voicing my opinion.
the more folks write & complain the more likely something will be done about a situation.
read my recent letter to NATO.
cheerio carola

[Chris Shaw]

He has plans. He will not stop at Ukraine. Sooner or later this is going to get much worse. Action required not words.

Chris

[Cherrie]

That is a fact and a scary one.

[William Michael Reeves]

Ok. Give me Putin's address and I'll send him 'I Am A Man'.

[Cherrie]

:) I was thinking of something a little more hands on.

[William Michael Reeves]

We'd have to translate our words into Russian bullets that they understand. Then deliver them in person to the Kremlin. An army of poets lamenting the loss drowns Putin in tears.

[Lisasview]

Yes, the doing is what is important...well said Cherrie..
Lisa, now in Spain

[Cherrie]

Yes I agree:) thank you

[Lisasview]

You are quite welcome

[keith]

i need not venture onto my soapbox when you have so beautifully given notice it is time to do something rather than watch

[Cherrie]

Thank you. Words can rally a group but at some point action is required or they are just words. read moreThank you. Words can rally a group but at some point action is required or they are just words.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

When one man speaks with words and another with bullets and bombs, it's only a matter of time until the words are silenced. The pen may be mightier than the sword but we are quite a ways removed from the age of knights and chivalry. America has lost its backbone and we have a weak and senile leader who can barely function. He gave a speech the other day then turned to shake hands with thin air. Then, he walked around in circles a few seconds, perceivably trying to gain an idea of where he was before walking off stage in the wrong direction. That is simply sad for someone who is supposedly the leader of the free world. It's all on video. You can't make this stuff up.

[Cherrie]

It's true. It's important for everyone to understand doing nothing and hoping it will just stop is fools-gold and s fast track to destruction.
When we do nothing (that is not minding our own business) we side with the villain.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Well, if you want nothing done, there's nobody better to put in charge of it than a Washington bureaucrat who's been getting by on doing nothing for over a half century. John Kay said in 1969 that our vote was now a "meaningless joke". Every day I see evidence confirming his belief. Voices are being censored in media and silenced while the American bureaucracy does it's shuffle off to Buffalo sidestep from the global stage.

[Cherrie]

Yes. I will continue working to vote. But politicians no longer care about voters only private agendas.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we just let it happen....
and the disease of apathy, and take care of myself...just spreads.
Sooner or later we will be dragged into this physically....why not now...?
j.

[Cherrie]

Exactly didn't Pearl Harbour teach us anything? Never wait for an invitation to a war the cost is devastating.

[Gee]

Seems like we, the world, are having to stand helplessly and watch as Russia does whatever it deems its right.
God only knows how this will end Cherrie.
Hope you are well

[Cherrie]

It's crazy nations speak out but do nothing.
They want words to fight against a battle of flesh and blood. And yes only the Father knows. I pray for their safety and a speedy end to this war.
:) we are doing well. Raising grandkids and working. Little time for anything else.