Today We Have A Choice . . .

Today We Have A Choice . . .

For the past twenty plus years, our American Values have been eroded. They have been ground away by scandals and poor decisions by our leaders. We share a void, an emptiness of despair. We sit on the brink of a great abyss. Will we continue wallowing on that path, I wonder?

Today we have a choice . . . We can believe the old guard, with their messages of hatred and division splintering, thereby guaranteeing us the same tragic results or we can believe in something different . . .

Today I witnessed a glimmer of hope, from Philadelphia, the land of our forefathers, where so long ago a group of men came together for a dream. To build a new and great nation . . . Conceived in Liberty... To us, it became known as the Great American Dream, a place where all men can come together and prosper.

Today in Philadelphia a man spoke with similar words . . . He spoke from deep within his being. He spoke of racial divides as they truly are, of discriminations endured by a generation. And he spoke of bitterness towards their persecutors. And he spoke of a dream, of changes that have fused us together today as a people. And he candidly explained the bitterness.

And his message brought tears to my eyes . . . It seems so long since I have had someone to believe in. That’s all I ever wanted in a President or a Presidential Candidate. Someone to believe, to trust, someone with honesty and sincerity in his words, knowing his words can only come from the heart. Purity of heart is the heart of all Americans. And today Senator Barack Obama gave me back my Pride.

Today we have a choice, we can stay the same or we can be great once again . . . The choice is ours.


Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books:
Just Released . . . Sleepless Nights, AuthorHouse, 2007
A continuation of The World . . . through a poets eyes.

The World Outside My Window, AuthorHouse, 2004

Links: Dreams Are Yours To Share
Warriors and Wars
The Moon Also Rises
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A Second Chance . . .

A Second Chance . . .

Doesn’t everyone deserve another chance? What if you were the one in need? No one can tell what tomorrow will bring. You may be the one that needs someone to reach out to them and just be a friend.

I have traveled all over the U.S. and in each town I saw someone in need of a hand . . . Homelessness is on the rise and most of us turn our heads away, look toward the ground as we walk by.

Once I was in a Taco Bell in New Mexico. A man entered tattered and torn, pack on his back. He placed his bag on a chair and counted his change. Then he went to the counter . . . Five minutes later another man walked up to the counter. The teen finally stopped what he was doing and went to help the second man. The first man stood there a moment and then went back to his pack and sat down.

I watched, I felt the rage enter me, enter my heart . . . Then I reached into my pocket, found the crumbled five I had placed there. I stood and walked over to the man and tossed the money on his table . . . He simply said, thanks, brother. His sullen eyes looked into mine quickly and then back to the table. Tears began to fill my eyes . . . Why must we be ashamed?

What if you were in need? What would you feel then? This is not something new. They are not doing better than you. They don’t secretly live in mansions on a hill looking down on you and me. Someone once said to me, I saw it on TV those buggers make thirty thousand a year begging.

Right . . . Someone else said they were tired of those on the gravy train, once they were in a grocery line and someone was buying steaks, paying with food stamps . . . I had to ask them, I just had to . . . What if you were charged with getting the meat for company function and your only means was with food stamps? Sure you’d be reimbursed put how would you pay?

Doesn’t everyone deserve a chance at the American Dream?

Life is not so easy to everyone. Many didn’t start at the same place as you or I. Many never make it far away from where they grew up . . .


Dan Hanosh
Dreams are yours to Share

My Books: The World Outside My Window, AuthorHouse, 2004

Soon to come, Sleepless Nights


My Poetry at poemhunter.com


My Other Links: Dreams Are Yours To Share
Warriors and Wars
The Moon Also Rises
The World Outside My Window
This Side Of Midnight
Dan’s Room 2 Write

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