Nowadays couples have children And negotiate as if it were a hostage situation Let the women and children be safe But leave the men as unwanted bait! That's what many marriages have become Nobody's in love anymore, and nobody's having fun Couples endure and tolerate each other Because if they split, maybe the children may suffer! Most couples begin with noble intentions To raise a child in a loving home and similar visions But, the misery and monotony of life takes over And with all the occurences around, they lose their composure Many begin with wrong reasons And then with the pressure, their children feel imprisoned Don't have kids as a retirement plan Invest now, withdraw later like a bank! Many have this strong urge to protect their legacy So all their accumulated wealth goes only to their progeny That too has a very innately selfish motive Let no other but a part of me reap the benefits, is the objective Whatever the situation, in most cases, children end up as a trump card Oscillating between both parents, with battleships in the backyard Don't use your kids as bullet-proof vests Parenting is not a competition with parents as opponents in a contest They say when you become a parent, your fangs come out With milk teeth gone, you become protective without a doubt Sure, every parent wants the best for their child But somewhere in between, intentions get defiled! Don't use your children as your ace trump card If you produce innocent souls, them you must guard Have children to love and cherish Not because you worry about your wealth once you perish Have children for the sheer joy of parenting! To love and admire all through their upbringing!
- RUELHA www.ruelha.com © Copyright Protected. All Rights Reserved
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Inhale Peace; Exhale Love. Joy will Follow! - RUELHA 
In the United States, there are a lot of financial advantages to not being married and having a family that way. Food stamps alone seem to make it worth it if the man and woman work out a plan.
I may be off track a little in relation to your poetic liberty, but I don’t think too much. 🤠🔥
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Great again Bain’s no business a difficult thing to un soul human beings!
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Bairns , I got fatty fingers
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You Know Dear Rue As i’ve mentioned Before
First Visiting Your Blog Site After You Followed
Mine My Impression Was You Were Just Another
Gorgeous 18 Year-Old Young Indian Woman
For It’s True All 18 through 100+ Year-Old
Young Indian Women Are
Beautiful This Way From
All the Indian Women i’ve Met
in Life Such Innocent Souls too
A Real Angel Pleasure Yet Really
That’s Beside the Point Your Personality,
Intelligence, And Creativity Sets You With the Stars
In the Sky Just Impressive That’s All Yet i Digress Back
to the Subject At Hand And Yes With the Covid-19 Mask
This is Obviously Just Another 18 Year-Old Indian Woman
Hehe And No i Will not Divulge Your Cassette Deck Age HAha…
Perhaps You’ve Seen a Phone With A Cord On it i Really Don’t Know
Yet It’s True i’m Really Glad
i Grew Up Without Central Heat
And Air-conditioning Then And We
Had to Boil Water to Take a Warm
Bath Oh Lord i Was Just A Skin and
Bones Kid Those Were Some really
Frigid Days Yet Now It’s Spring After
December After Christmas In Florida
Nearly 80 Degrees F All this Week Wow
Wish it Got That Warm Back in the 60’s
In the Boiling Water For Warm Bath Days
And True No TV Until 7 Years of Age We
Really Had to Use our Imagination to Play
For So Long After Graduating With 3 Degrees
From College Old Friends And New People i Met
Told Me i Was Wasting my Talents Not Pursuing A Job
for Money Yet i Was Just Happy Bringing Smiles to Folks
By Handing Out Shoes to Go Bowling and i Always Loved
to Help Folks With the Computer Scoring System As That
Was One Thing i could Do Excelling at Brand New Computer Stuff
Yet It’s True i Always Enjoyed Helping People Just Helping People
All the
Satisfaction
i Needed in Life
Yet my Father’s Side of the
Family Was All into Money
Father Leaving my Mother when
i Was 3 as She Wanted to Stay at
Home And Garden My Sister and me With
Love i am So Fortunate She Was There until
3 The Real Secret of my Success Wired for Love
By A Mother of Love the Greatest Gift oF all and
Yes i Do Believe Government Should Pay Mommies
To Stay At Home With Their Children if We Wanna Have
Folks With Empathy to Grow Up Who Are not leaning toward
The ‘Trump
Side’ of
Frigging Psychopathy
Such Cold Hearts Mechanical
Cognition Brings to Life So Living
Dead And Barely Human All that’s
Left of the Condition At All Honestly
i Don’t Regret Not Bringing Any
Surviving Children into this
World As There Are
Surely Enough
Sad Humans
To Cry A Dry River
of Tears For Sure
Very Rare Do i Find a
Real Happy Person in this
World and Very Rare Was i
A Happy Person When i Lost From
What the Word Play and Joy Even
Meant in Life and all the Warmth of
Love and Connection Moving And
Co-Creating That Makes Life Worth Living
At All It’s True Katrina and me Are About as
Close Now As ‘Perfect Couple’ As that Comes at
Least in my Eyes And It’s True There is A Couple
Around the Block Who Live All Their Joy of Life
With No Children Older Than Us Who Never
Even Tried to have Any Children And that’s
The Brow Beating Katrina Faced Through
Life Women Always Asking her When We
Were Gonna Have Children haha She
Even Got Presents From Some of them
of Sexy Lingerie Like i Needed Help
To Make it Happen i Guess Nope
No Problem At All with Smiles
Yet With Epileptic Seizures
That Wasn’t Meant to Be
For Katrina and
Again i Don’t
regret not Having
Children Not In A World
Where Lies Are Told As Truth
And People Just Don’t Frigging
Care About Each Other Except for Those Who
Do Who truly make Life Worth Living and yes it’s
True Having At least One Person is Enough Yet the
More the Merrier Verily Yes i
See As Night Becomes Day
Moving Connecting Co-Creating
Just Brightening the Days
With Colors Even
More For No
Reason Yet
Inhaling Peace
Exhaling LoVE iN JoY oF LiGHT
Just Never Running Out of Love At All Dancing
Sining Just Wired This Way All Lit Up And Warm Within..
And the Theme Song For This Is “You’ve Got A Friend”
Dear Rue by “James Taylor” i have So Many Very Sad
FRiEnDS Yet the
Thing About
Love and
LiGHT
Is it Just
Keeps Shining
And Never Gives up
i Am Surely Glad You
Are Confident Naked Enough
Whole and Complete Dear Rue
You Aren’t The Kind of FRiEnD
That Keeps Ya Up at Night Worrying About
Yet It’s True That’s How Love Evolves and
Roses Grow Taller Out of Manure Rich Life True
Ya Just Keep Loving Ya Just Keep Loving Ya Just Keep Loving That’s all…
Even When no one Calls Still There Just Still There no Matter Cold Still So Warm
Just Like
my Mother
Who Never Gave Up on me
Yep Helen and Sister Marie too
Bet if You Went to ‘The Bad Place’
Your FRiEnD Maria Magdalena Wouldn’t Give up on You Either…
It’s Not Every Day A FRiEnD Like That comes And Indeed Yes
To Be able to be a FRiEnD like that is the Best Gift of All to Give…
Like my
Mama.. It’s
True the Kids
Around Our
Neighborhood Always
Lamented That She Wasn’t Their Mother…
Thank God For Women Just Thank God For Women Period.
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*Hehe Singing
Not Sining Let’s Hope at Least..;)
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