On My Way to Die

A funny thing happened on the way to my funeral;
I started to live.

I struggled and hurt and the pain ensued
But then I remembered.

I have not one, not two, but three
Wonderful loving creations that I brought into this world.

I thought to myself, it's their turn
And, being older and having fought the system all of my life
I guess I couldn't do to them what I'd had done to me.

I always believed that it was my parents idea for my existence....
NOW, I know better.

I am an example to my children
and I won't give up as my parents did.
I won't die from the fight.
It will invigorate me to go forward.

I won't hate
because that is what I had shown to me.
I won't lie
because that is what was told to me.
I won't quit
because that is what my parents did.
Oh no,
.... not me.

I have much more than my parents did and
although I have a lifetime of pain
from the "Bloody System,"
I never lost me.

I'm a fighter who endured the 1960s
and loved being a hippy....
true fighters you see can do the battle
with PEACE and nonviolence...
it's all in the WORDING.

I'm a woman who was tokenly
given a good job in the 1970s

I'm a 80's lady who endured
the Yuppies as they were my children's idols

I'm a 90's girl who recognized
the wisdom of my grandmother

I'm a millennium grammy who has the rights ....
the rights of passage as I've been there, done that ....

I'm a winner, I'm a fighter,
I'm a lover and most of all,
I'm a survivor.

I'm ready to fight for the VETS of Viet Nam........
they are my heroes as they endured the pain of Not winning a war.....
and coming home to an ugly country
which didn't celebrate them,
instead put them down
and stomped on them.

I'm the older generation now
but I have what past generations didn't.
I have the Internet and I have access to my own kind,
be they white, women, black, men,
yellow, youth, elderly, ageless and ageold.

I have my children, my friends, my confidants
and my heritage.
I have Germans, Italians, Phillipinos,
French, Africans, Japanese, Chinese,
Iranians, Palestinians, Israelis, Mexicans,
Canadians, Scottish, Irish, English..........
Martians........ hehe.........
and the list goes on and on.

I have love and peace
that have never been available
to me before because I have YOU.

Let us unite and let us
PEACE away the demons
that want to destroy US and control OUR world.....