Looking thru a key-hole

Looking through a Key-hole
by Brian Thomas Armstrong

I am looking through a key-hole
But know not who I see

A frustrated dark and angry man
Who is locked inside a dim and lonely room

I vow that I won’t judge him
I try not to assume
I vow not to go and blame him
I try not to add to his misery and his gloom

But then peering through that Key-hole
Through that door
Into that room of mental doom

I realize He is Me

And then I proceed to do all four!

Be Your Own Keeper

 

Be Your Own Keeper
In times of weakness, do not revert into the type of person
who usually makes you ill.
Instead, find renewed strength in being the type of person
who always keeps you well.

     BTA

 

Skulls of Rage

Religion spouted by the Book

Religion spouted strictly by the Book, breeds Human Judgmental Violence on Others – Not Gods Divine Mercy for All! BTA

Madness in the Background

 

Madness in the Background
by Brian Thomas Armstrong

Madness in the background
That’s all I ever hear
Whether near or one block down
A deafening roaring sound
The den of chaos
Ten times as strong
Overpowering right from wrong
A madness in the background
It drives me madly insane
That is why they caught and brought me here
And locked me deep away

 

Persevere by Brian Thomas Armstrong

 

Persevere
by Brian Thomas Armstrong

My mind was full as I sat in the empty silent field outside of my deserted village
Peace was not in my mind, though my tomahawk pipe was in my hand

Sadness
Revenge
Loneliness

They were my only friends

A Buffalo Spirit appeared alongside me
It told me

Do not let them break your Spirit

Persevere

Even though they hunt you and leave your bodies rotting on the ground
They still cannot exterminate you
For you are also a Spirit of Pride and Perseverance
That not even the evil ones or the years can remove from this land

The Spirit disappeared from my eyes
But it filled the emptiness of my heart with purpose

I will survive my enemy’s madness, until the day that they become sane

 

The Human Animal

 

The Human Animal is a cruel and wicked thing, ruled by its own savage human nature
The Human Being is an enlightened entity, which tempers strength, with love and mercy;
ruled by divine spirit. BTA

 

Modern America: Crime becomes a flourishing $70 billion Dollar Prison Industry

This is what it comes to, when your country cares more about the money, than humanity - Why rehabilitate when you can facilitate for cash!

Crime becomes a $70 billion industry, and prisons are now run by publicly traded corporations.

Cash strapped States sacrifice the welfare of their citizens incarcerated family members they are in legal charge of, by farming out their social responsibilities to the lowest bidder.

This practice allows private prison contractors to uphold occupancy guarantees between 80 and 90 percent full, encouraging the private prisons to actively promote a high convict recidivism rate, and disregard good behavior for early release.

Once more, America’s dark Capitalistic nature creates an “UN-Modern American Ideal of Decency, Morality, and Ethics” That is allowed to flourish under the noses of apathetic citizens, dooming us all to future corrupt and self-destructive American government approved self-tyranny.

Man's Best Friend

Man’s Best Friend
by Brian Thomas Armstrong

A best friend is there when no one else decides to care

They are happy to see you, when no one else is there.

They eat what you eat in excitement

And sleep where you sleep

Comforting and protecting you on cold and lonely nights

A best friend also always listens to you every day

When work was hard, and relief is nowhere in sight

No matter who is wrong or who’s involved

Man’s best friend is there to make you feel all right

The best way to Fight Animal Cruelty is by being Involved! - https://www.aspca.org/get-involved

1960's style bigotry in 2015 Indiana

1960's style bigotry in 2015 Indiana

It's back to 1960's style open bigotry in Indiana! Civil Rights means Human Rights and Indiana is blatantly getting away with setting the country back half a century of progress on Civil Rights, for all Americans. Is this the kind of America Republicans want in 2016? A backwards America on Civil Rights! I remember a time in the 1970’s, when businesses in Seattle could post signs saying "No Long Hairs Allowed.” Since I was a hippy kid then, I couldn't eat at certain restaurants, shop at certain stores, and I was “legally” denied employment at many places in Seattle solely because of my hair style. Think about the Air Time and Outrage that this kind of story would get now.

The people posting those signs would seem incredibly ignorant and backward today wouldn't they. It is time to start being outraged about people today who feel they have a “God Given” right to take away other people’s Civil Rights to live normally and unhindered in this nation, just like every other tax paying citizen who isn't gay. The LGBT community should be allowed the same protections under the law as any other socially established group of Americans.

First they take away your rights, then they take away your land, then they take your life or make you live in a concentration camp. Yes this was once the way it was, not just in Nazi Germany, but here in the United States of America as well. Are we doomed to allow the hateful, bigoted, self-righteous and exclusionary citizens of our country to digress our great nation back into these shameful eras of socially acceptable acts of bigotry and hate? We all know the answer to this question is – Hell No! Tell Indiana its form of facilitating and promoting fascist hatred movements will absolutely not be tolerated in 21^st Century America!

A Summer's Thief