DECKLER'S CHRONICLES Trying to do the right things can get you killed. Detective Deckler finds his purpose as he and Michele fights to save city and country from terror and crime, in their unique way of removing the evil minded bad guys from the streets of Plainville USA. The author's ability to transcend the norms of writing and discovery, is displayed in each story and verse. Truly an interesting art. The author writes with clarity about the differences of man to man to world. Charlie's relationship to himself and his world is displayed by the author's unique dialogue and conversation, as Charles wanders through his compressed reality . . . POETIC THOUGHTS, is a resonance of verse and perspective of the rights and wrongs of a world going nowhere, the author uses his knowledge to show this distinctive reality

WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU AND ME

By Kermit M Henry

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2012 Kermit M Henry
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4685-5712-1

Chapter One

POETIC THOUGHTS

MOMENTS IN TIME

My stories, my thoughts are of ideas with truth within, you will have to look beyond the impossible to see the possible, to feel the thoughts, to understand the truth in my work, and to see beyond the reality of your existence. It is possible to make a statement with half a truth, as a true statement. I write within my Poetic Thoughts, these possibilities, they are truth through my vision, hindsight and plenty of my doing. Read them with that possible truth and enjoy what you see and understand.

    It is about you and me, and
    Why it matters to be you and me
    We need each other
    We want to see
    What we think
    What we do
    We need to know
    That we are not alone
    We need to hear our thoughts
    We need to see our doings
    We are not able to
    Do it alone
    To survive alone
    To grow alone

    To have a future alone
    To merge our values alone
    It is about you
    It is about me
    And it matters to
    You and me
    That this is necessary
    That this is you and me
    And nothing
    Without you

    We all have our values
    This is why
    Some of us
    Fits so easily
    Into the gloves of life
    Some choose the wants
    Over the needs
    Some make no decisions
    They move with the tides of
    Those who have decided

    Daughter of my father
    But not the daughter
    Of my mother
    Learn how to take
    That pat on the back
    As a thank you
    For something you have done
    And not think someone
    Is trying to pick
    Your pocket
    For something they want
    From you

    Talk to all whom
    Have something you want
    And be the difference
    They want

    It does not take much effort
    To grow ignorances
    Just stop giving knowledge
    Stop trying to understand
    Stop paying attention
    Stop wanting more of
    The growth hormones
    Of the mind
    And you will see
    Ignorance is easy to be
    We all want something
    Getting that something
    Takes an effort
    We are not willing to do
    This ideal grows
    Into nothing
    Ignorance, is not
    Wanting to make
    The effort to
    Not be ignorant
    Into being smart

    That time between
    Awake and asleep
    When you want to be
    Awake and
    You drift into sleep
    Only to wake moments later,
    The times when you
    Want to sleep and
    Awake moment afterwards,
    This powerful
    Non-sleep
    Non awake will
    Continue until
    You take control
    Of your mind
    And sleep deeply
    Or get up
    And begin your something
    As is all your actions
    You are the key
    For a better restful sleep
    Or full day awake

    Each time you
    Think of me
    About me
    For me
    I feel good.
    If I have not
    Done wrong to you
    For you to think
    Bad of me
    And you think
    Bad of me
    I feel good.
    For you just
    Having the thought of me
    Good or bad thoughts
    Is enough to know you care
    Good or bad of me
    And maybe the bad
    Thoughts are not
    The bad of me
    That you think of me,
    But a bad thought
    Of me that is a good
    Thought for you
    To you
    To continue
    To feel the good
    Of you, to you,
    Then you and
    I will
    Feel good
    To you
    And will be
    Good for you

    We live to
    Be ready for the
    Next life
    People live to get older
    Change that idea,
    Live to be ready
    For your next
    Age of your life
    The next time
    Of your life
    Be ready to see
    Be ready to become
    Be alive to feel all
    The changes that
    You have done,
    To know that
    You are ready
    For your next life
    To live and
    Be renewed with
    Things to do

    There are two folds
    Of living
    Within your existence
    What you want to do
    Creates what you can do,
    Your times
    Within your time
    Is complete
    Is made whole
    The moment your
    Can do's becomes a reality
    The time when you
    Will know your wants
    And your can do's
    Are the same and completed
    When you fuse your have
    With your wants
    There is a third fold
    To your existence
    Where are you going?
    What will happen
    Now that you have
    Nothing to need or want to do
    Your times within your time
    Has merge into one time
    A third act of living
    Within your time
    With no vision of things to do
    Or wants to be completed
    What can you do
    What will you do
    What will you want
    With so much time

    What you do is important
    Why you did it, is personal
    What is the factual
    Part of what is done
    Why is the mythical part
    Of why you did that act
    What, why,
    Understand them
    And you will
    Understand your
    Ifs

    When I run for exercise
    To renew myself
    I do this
    Form of thinking
    I run looking into
    My future and
    Remembering
    My past
    I see before me
    And behind me
    I cannot have
    Them both
    I am trying to be
    My future and
    Be my past
    What am I
    What will I see
    What will I be
    When I stop running
    When I look
    Into my present time
    And become
    What I see

    Our children
    Failings are
    Their willingness
    To listen to the easy
    Side of truth
    The side where everything
    Is easy and fun
    The side that their peers
    Hears and tells to them
    The ones who listen
    To the easy sides of doing
    These youthful acts
    Of imaginations
    Of wishful dreams
    To see their world
    Through the eyes of others
    That age of believing
    That tells them they can do
    Because they said you can do
    This will not hold together
    As the child grows
    Into that something,
    He and she thinks is important
    Their strength through their parents
    Can prevent them
    From losing control
    Of their lives and
    Their hold on reality
    Some will gain from
    This dream world
    And be released into
    The world of growing up
    Others, the circle of

    Life will continue
    Trying to regain
    Their youthful failing
    Another form of
    Wanting to be
    That special something
    But not knowing how.
    Not asking for help.
    Trying to be a man or woman
    With a child's mind

    The tragedy of being
    Me, in us,
    The two people that
    Saw the world and
    Enjoyed their
    Togetherness
    Until the one wanted more
    The other lost
    The way
    I am the one who
    Lost the way
    For a moment
    That have endured for years
    That continues to
    Appear within my mind
    And destroyed the
    Connection
    To the world
    Of us.
    Without saying which one
    Did what to
    Break the connection
    Will it make a difference
    Are the two ends
    Waiting to be reconnected
    Has the world lost
    Or just waiting for
    The two of us
    To see
    The us in me

    Humanity to humans
    Is the hardest understanding
    For God to give
    To his creations
    For humans to understand
    The purpose of
    This emotion.
    God has recreated
    His humans, twice
    And still God's love
    Cannot bring understanding
    Of this emotion
    Of this love of
    Humanity within
    His humans
    Are we that unnecessary
    We cannot see
    Our salvations is
    With our entirety
    The all of us together as
    Humans with kindness

    Things are hard sometimes
    But think deeply
    You will know that
    The only easy times
    The only easy things
    Are when you were
    A baby
    You are wrong.
    The hardest thing then
    Was trying to get
    Someone to understand
    What you wanted
    What you are saying
    Now it is hard
    For you to think
    Back that far
    For you to remember
    The times when
    Everything had to be
    Done for you
    The times when you
    Wanted to do it yourself
    But could not
    It was not easy growing up
    In those easy times

    Answers for
    Questions not asked

    The acceptance of wrong is
    The realization of how
    Unbelievable truth is
    And why we do wrong
    And believe we are
    Doing right

    Wanting more and more
    And more, and
    Giving less and less
    We become over burden
    With our wants
    And mindless
    With our giving

    My thoughts are
    Stones I throw your way
    Stones to start
    Your thinking processor
    Stones to alert you
    Stones to bring understanding
    That, there are
    More Than one way
    To give your thoughts
    And understand
    Your ideals, understand
    Your purpose for doing
    Understanding
    The many ways
    To be a human
    With understanding
    Do not dodge my thoughts
    My stones
    Embrace them to see
    And become that
    Understanding person

    Knowledge is science
    Belief is religious
    Both together
    Is God like and
    At time takes God
    To understand the
    Differences of
    Knowledge and belief
    There are no differences
    Between the four words
    Just the one mind
    Taking that step
    Toward the fifth word
    Peace

    We have the
    Want to be
    We have the
    Gonna be
    There is many of one
    Which be
    Are you
    The many or the few
    The haves, or
    The wants
    You can have both
    You can be one or the other
    It is your fate
    Your decision to make
    One is easier to have
    Than the other
    You make the choice
    You live your choice

    It will happen
    To you one day
    Right between the eyes
    The knowledge
    That you knew existed
    But is afraid to see
    Afraid to let it
    Become a reality
    It will happen
    To you and
    All like you one day
    Just wait and see
    The knowledge is
    Continual and forever
    The fear is real
    The end is necessary
    But not what I want
    Not what I need
    Not what I believe.
    I know it will
    Happen to me
    As I see it happening
    Again and again
    To others
    Right between their eyes

    All things must end
    Good or bad
    The end will be there
    Must be there
    Before a new
    Something can begin

    When you read,
    Read to find understanding
    In the subject matter
    Do not look for flaws
    Reasons for not reading
    These things are easy to see
    Or you will create your own
    In any case
    They are not your reasons
    For reading
    They are your reasons
    For not reading
    Your reasons
    For doubting what
    You are reading, reasons
    To lose your understanding
    Put the material down
    And when you are
    Ready to read
    Read with understanding
    Read to see
    What is about to happen
    And you will grow
    To be understood
    As you see
    The meaning of the
    Material being read
    You will understand
    Why it is necessary
    To open your mind
    And you will enjoy
    What you are reading

    The truth born
    From a lie
    Our mind is complicated
    But one thing it does
    Is cares for the host
    Our mind will
    Recreate that lie
    We tell ourselves, to
    Makes us comfortable
    Make us feel wanted
    Then in our mind
    That lie becomes
    Our truth
    Our memory of
    Something that did not
    Happen.
    Our mind is giving
    Comfort to
    Our feelings of well being
    As we think and
    Live within that
    Fabricated truth.
    One day we will
    Open ourselves to
    Unravel our lives
    Until then
    Enjoy your truths

    Time does not
    Move at your speed
    Or my speed
    Or our speed
    Time moves at time speed
    For time moments
    For some, time is moving
    At the right speed
    For others, too fast
    Others, too slow
    Each of us has a
    Limited amount of
    Time moments
    Where we enjoy
    Our time
    Our place
    In time
    Until we want
    More time
    More moments
    When we need more time
    To do those things
    We put off for a later time
    When we are moved
    Out of time's time, by
    Getting older and slower
    We search for ways
    To add more time
    To our time
    Trying to find ways
    To keep up with
    Times, time
    Time will not

    Wait for us
    Time must continue
    Time will be forever.
    We see time
    Moving past our existence
    We reach out
    To those who have
    Their time
    Their moments
    Hoping that they
    Will take us
    With them
    As they use their time
    Giving us more
    Time to enjoy
    This time.
    Time does what
    Time does
    That is move forward
    Taking with it
    Our love time
    Our fun time
    Our life time
    Time waits for no one.
    Time is forever
    Use your time wisely

    Neither will I again
    Smite any more
    Every thing living
    As I have done before
    Genesis 8:21

    Do you feel the need
    To be better than
    What you are
    What are you
    Waiting for, do it
    And feel the strength
    You have within

    Food for thought
    Every day I
    Put on two pounds
    Of weight, food and water
    Before going to bed
    The next morning I have
    Lost one and a half pounds
    Of weight
    I find I have actually
    Gained a half pound
    Until I learn how to lose
    Two pounds
    Of weight per night time
    Of my sleep
    I am going to get
    Larger per month
    Day, year of my life

    You can always
    Find an "if"
    In your probability
    When you are
    Unsure of
    The "why"
    Of your actions

    Hiding behind
    An open door
    Gives you only
    A small space to hide
    And no hiding place
    Once the door is
    Closed
    Understanding your actions
    Makes it easier
    To keep that
    Door open
    And for you
    To see whatever
    Is coming your way

    Aging creates pain
    From birth to death
    As we age
    We have pain
    The pains of living
    As we move form
    Mother's arms and caring
    To learning how to walk
    Puberty to teenage
    The pains of growing
    The growing of aging
    Learning how to live
    Amongst others like ourselves
    The pains of realizing
    That you are different
    Going from grade school
    To high school
    The pains continues
    Mentally and physically
    They both hurt
    The pain is there
    Growing as we age.
    Getting rejected
    By your first love
    Rejected at work
    For a job you wanted
    The pains continues
    We are not aware of this thing
    Or the affects of pain
    Until the pain happens

    Then it starts
    Doing what pain does
    The pains will always
    Be with us.
    We should not fear pain
    But so much pain
    So much pain
    So many days of living
    With this thing.
    The pains should not
    Hurt as much
    But it does and
    Is felt deeper than before.
    Living to age sixty
    The pains of living continues
    In short burst
    In moments of relief
    In times of rest
    The body starts to
    Shut down from,
    So much pain
    From so many days of
    Living with this thing
    So much pain.
    The pains continues to grow
    Aging creates the pain,
    The pains of seeing
    Your love ones die
    The pains of being alone
    The pains of knowing

    That you have only
    A short time to enjoy
    The life you created
    The pains of needing
    The help of others
    To do for yourself
    The pain continues
    So much pain
    So little living
    The pain grows
    The pain is alive
    You know
    To stop aging will
    Stop the pain
    And will
    Stop the living
    Which stoppage
    Will cause you
    The most pain
    Pain creates aging
    Aging creates pain
    A life without one
    Creates nothing

    About being a blank.
    There are times
    In my existence
    When I see nothing
    I hear nothing and
    I remember nothing
    These are not good times
    Just necessary times
    Of moments of necessity
    Times of my inaction
    Times not of my doing
    Times I do not like
    I want to be aware
    Of all my time
    To feel and know
    That I am alive
    That I know
    What I am doing
    With my time
    That I am using
    My time correctly
    That there are important
    Reasons for my time
    I will be ever watchful
    For those moments
    Of my blankness
    And put something
    Within those moments
    Of nothingness
    Then there will be
    No more blank times
    For me
    I am ready
    To begin, and use
    All my time

    The amount of lies
    You put in your truth
    The amount of truth
    You put in your lies
    Is a reflection of
    Your existence
    Of how you think
    Of what you want
    Others to think of you
    Can you tell
    One truth
    One lie
    One purpose
    Without combining
    The other
    To that truth
    To that lie
    To that purpose
    What does a whole
    Truth entails
    What makes it whole
    And not part of something else

    We live longer,
    We are putting more
    In our living, and
    Time is moving ever faster
    The longer we live
    The faster times becomes
    And the slower we become
    We should start enjoying
    That thing we have
    That thing we love
    That thing time cannot change
    That thing that
    Time cannot take
    From us
    Before we lose
    Our living to time

    My response
    To a better part
    Of my life
    I have lost
    She has lost
    The world is without
    And the disconnection
    Is complete
    Good bye
    My Love

(Continues...)

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