Exactly . . .

https://www.alamy.com/bones-of-an-animal-in-the-desert-view-through-

a-magnifying-glass-against-the-background-of-sand-image247337440.html

I'll be the first to defend your right

To say exactly what you feel.

If you are stifled;

Unable to speak,

I will make is damned certain

You can whisper it or shriek

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First . . .

https://royscovenantcorner.com/2017/06/23/j

ust-a-lump-of-clay-2/

. . . demo of Until I Tried


Words are all that I have to express
All the things I would like to be able to tell you
But don't quite know how.
Couldn't before and still can't do it now.
During all of this time that's transpired
Little's changed but a lot has occurred in my thoughts
And my feelings for you.
Countless superior intellects have searched for answers.
I never gave it a whole lot of thought.

Until I tried
To let you know how much I feel inside
For you.

I have always believed that it's true .
Very few things I'll ever encounter will be quite
s precious as you.
The magic between us so rare and so new.
Though I'm not one of those that you find
Who has always the need to express to so many
Exactly what he has in mind.
I find I have this burning that's deep down inside me
For words I never needed before.

I can't imagine ever having my life depend upon eloquence
And maybe it doesn't.
But after all this time together it seems long overdue.
And in the end it probably doesn't make a difference in how you feel
If I never say it.

Now I'm daily rehearsing the way
To articulate every syllable nuance
And stress when I say
How much I need to have you here today.
And I won't give it up easily
I suspect that it's just as important to you
As it is now to me.
The words we use themselves have no meaning.
So all the more must I make it right.

Now that I try
To let you know how much I feel  inside.
Until I tried
To let you know how much I feel inside
for you.


Until I Tried
©2007 Raymond M. Jozwiak
(rough, low-fi demo for copyright purposes)

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Irritation . . .

. . . the state of feeling annoyed, impatient, or angry.
synonyms:  annoyance, exasperation, vexation, indignation, impatience, crossness, displeasure, chagrin, pique . . .


. . . all that you feel when reading the news these days. . .


Irritation & Quittance
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Burning . . .

. . . Grey



Do you mean you were just lying there?

Out of reach of anyone who cares

They have bound you with their loving arms

In the distance I still hear you sound the alarm



Can you see yourself more clearly now?

As if you stepped out of a cloud

Beginning when it seems to end

Above below merging



Your mind doesn't feel

Your fingers don't think

Your eyes do not touch

While the heartbeat goes skipping away



It's now and then you're living

While you wait start the giving

Prove it it's always there

Burning grey without its flare



Obligated but one hand is tied

Constant chattering within your mind

How to leave it no one cares

To hear the silly language spoken there



There's a love that empties its own veins

As they spend they fill up again

The flow traffics through eternity

Carries on in all purity



Now you feel and you think

You see and you touch

With a matrix that springs from your heart

To your hands through your head

Burning grey

(Burning Grey performed by OHO at Pleasant Valley Golf Club, 

October 2016;  

Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak)

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Never . . .

. . . too soon. . .

. . . to hear this again. . .


Heard somebody say
They overheard you
Just the other day
A simple word
About the way we get along
If only I were sure
Of the semantics
Having doubts 'cause I'm
One hopeless romantic
Could it be
You're slipping away from me

What will I do
If what I'm thinking is true
And you want to be
Really free of me
I won't last very long
Very far from your heart
And this third-hand intelligence
Might be the way that it starts.

Heard somebody say
They thought they saw you
Walking in their way
You were not alone
They said he didn't look like
Thinking to myself
Must be mistaken
Try not to believe
but still badly shaken
Why would you
Deceive me in things you do

So many years
Sharing our laughter and tears
Lasted very long
Maybe I was wrong
Not to ask you
Why you feel
We've drifted apart
And this third-hand intelligence
Might be the way that it starts

Are my sources reliable
Wait and see
Wait and see
Is my psyche too pliable
It could be
It could be

If somebody said
The sky was falling
Would you believe it's true
And change your direction
From spinning round
When it hits the ground

That's just not true
Any believers are few
When you've seen it all
It could never fall
Any more than
I think you could
Tear us apart
And this third-hand intelligence
Might be the way that it starts

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Are Two . . .

. . . ALWAYS better than one?


(from http://www.notable-quotes.com/h/hypocrisy_quotes.html#oOoL0Dtjk21AcqkT.99)
"Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins."
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

"Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him."
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER

"A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things."
WILLIAM HAZLITT

"For neither man nor angel can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone."
JOHN MILTON

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Inside . . .

Words are all that I have to express

All the things I would like to be able to tell you but don't quite know how

Couldn't before and still can't do it now

During all of this time that's transpired little's changed

But a lot has occurred in my thoughts and my feelings for you

Countless superior intellects have searched for answers

I never gave it a whole lot of thought



Until I tried to let you know how much I feel inside

Until I tried to let you know how much I feel inside

For you



I have always believed that it's true

Very few things I'll ever encounter will be quite as precious as you

The magic between us so rare and so new

Though I'm not one of those that you find

Who has always the need to express to so many exactly what he has in mind

I find I have this burning that's deep down inside me

For words I never needed before



Until I tried to let you know how much I feel  inside

Until I tried to let you know how much I feel  inside

for you



I can't imagine ever having my life depend upon eloquence

And maybe it doesn't

But after all this time together it seems long overdue

And in the end it probably doesn't make a difference in how you feel

If I never say it



Now I'm daily rehearsing the way

To articulate every syllable nuance and stress when I say

How much I need to have you here today

And I won't give it up easily

I suspect that it's just as important to you as it is now to me

The words we use themselves have no meaning

So all the more must I make them just right



Now that I try to let you know how much I feel  inside

Until I tried to let you know how much I feel inside

for you



Until I Tried
©2007 & 2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak
from Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak
Now available at Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak



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Try . . .

Words are all that I have to express

All the things I would like to be able to tell you but don't quite know how

Couldn't before and still can't do it now

During all of this time that's transpired little's changed

But a lot has occurred in my thoughts and my feelings for you

Countless superior intellects have searched for answers

I never gave it a whole lot of thought



Until I tried to let you know how much I feel inside

Until I tried to let you know how much I feel inside

For you



I have always believed that it's true

Very few things I'll ever encounter will be quite as precious as you

The magic between us so rare and so new

Though I'm not one of those that you find

Who has always the need to express to so many exactly what he has in mind

I find I have this burning that's deep down inside me

For words I never needed before



Until I tried to let you know how much I feel  inside

Until I tried to let you know how much I feel  inside

for you



I can't imagine ever having my life depend upon eloquence

And maybe it doesn't

But after all this time together it seems long overdue

And in the end it probably doesn't make a difference in how you feel

If I never say it



Now I'm daily rehearsing the way

To articulate every syllable nuance and stress when I say

How much I need to have you here today

And I won't give it up easily

I suspect that it's just as important to you as it is now to me

The words we use themselves have no meaning

So all the more must I make them just right



Now that I try to let you know how much I feel  inside

Until I tried to let you know how much I feel inside

for you



Until I Tried
from Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak ©2007 & 2014 Raymond M. Jozwiak, coming April 7, 2015

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In Between. . .

Sometimes (especially at my age) life seems like a series of coping with bad things.  These things involve either a physical (although sometimes psychological) issue of my own or of others close to me, or sometimes death itself.  Not trying to be Debbie-Downer or anything here.  It's just how I feel sometimes.  

But in the meantime, I have to live my life to the fullest in between those times.  I must take advantage of all the good things and people in my life.  Living this way should and will strengthen me to cope better when the bad things do roll around. 

And I really don't want to be a pessimist because, as a good friend of mine often says, the glass is half empty AND half full at the same time.

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GENERALizing. . .

. . . about the rich or the poor gets us nowhere . . .

Mitt Romney says that since our current President practices the "politics of division" (he obviously lives in a cocoon),  many intelligent (maybe that's the missing element) Americans are quite conscious of the existing rift between rich and poor in this country.  Pew Social & Demographic Trends found 66% of Americans see strong conflicts between the two groups, and a full 19% more than did in 2009.

Almost half of the people interviewed said they thought rich people are rich because they were born into rich families or know the right people and a comparable percentage thought the rich earned their riches through hard work, ambition or education. 

Well, both groups are correct.  And like any other group of two or more human beings, within each of those rich populations there are good, honest, principled people and there are lying, cheating, dishonest charlatans as well.

Much like the perception that rich (sometimes not-so-rich-yet conservative, white-collar-middle-to-upper-middle-class) people hold that poor people are poor because they are lazy and therefore do not work hard, have no ambition and are as a result (or as a cause) have no education.  And they are right also. . . that is about SOME poor people.  But if they are speaking of a group of two or more poor people, they are not considering the good, honest, principled people who have tried but have suffered setbacks, disadvantages, discrimination, bad luck, bad circumstances or bad timing who have not been able to attain the success that some may THINK these poor people could have attained.

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