I need a hero

We need someone to love us and tell us we will be okay.

             I need a hero

What have I become? I have lost the old dreams.
I have colored my life gray and I have learn to accept less.
I'm left with shadows of faces and places I can't find.

Men will sin and dance in the seven deadly sins and learn one day.
What did I save?  We hurt ourselves daily with accepting less and living for false dreams.
I was going to save the world. I can't even save myself today.

Yesterday heroes told me. You can do anything you want. Only dreams not reachable is the dream
left sleeping and undone.  I hear echoes of voices telling me. Johnnie, you will be alright. Old wise
Grandfather had left me with good words and base. I wish I could hear his voice today.

We are monsters, demons and abusers. Promises made and broken. Liars and storytellers.
I learn after 56 years of life. We must trip and fall many times. Hope we leave something worthwhile
for us to hold on to and care for.

I need a hero today . I had my examples. Martin Luther King Jr.  Standing for the all of us. Telling us to get education and never allow anyone to look down at you.  Gandhi,showing us to peace and calm. Kahlil Gibran and Oz Mandino showing us love and good dreams and goals are worthwhile.

My Grandsons looked at me. The Grandfather who take them to fun places. In their eyes. Their grandpa is their hero. Maybe we learn with time to be kinder and more loving. Please be  a hero. Share a smile and a hello. Help a stranger if you can.  My dear Grandfather took us to the fruit market. He bought his vegetables and fruit. On the way home he saw a homeless person. He stopped the car. Separated the fruit and vegetables into another bag. Left the car and gave the food to the homeless person. The homeless man told my Grandfather. God bless you. My kind Grandfather told him. I hope this can help you. Left the man with a handshake and a smile. He didn't look down or pity  the man.

My mother was poor. $1.50 hour nurses aide job in the sixties. Every Friday a  woman would bring us a bag of groceries for almost  a year . She handed the bag to me or my sister, said hello and goodbye. When I return from the service. I found her to try to repay her. She was a real hero to me. She was very happy I found her and she told me. She was happy I did Okay. She offered me coffee and food. We talked for hours. She told me. Don't got to give a lot. Give enough to help another person. Good deeds make us know we can change our world. If only one person at a time. She wouldn't accept money or gift. She told me. My thank you was enough.

This world need more heroes. Good people who show concern and love without demanding payment. Thank you for reading and remember. One planet and one people. Pray for peace, pray for the safety of all children and pray no children must sleep with war near.

                                  Coyote/John Castellenas

Author's Note

Just words. I hope you like.

Reviews

[AprilRN1210]

"I was going to save the world. I can't even save myself today.".... there are those who try to act like they are God's gift to the world and then there are those everyday people who in that moment of need rise above and do the extraordinary for no other reason than it was the right thing to do... those who don't think about it, they just do it...

"This world need more heroes. Good people who show concern and love without demanding payment.".... I couldn't have said it better myself.. too many are selfish, conditioned, and too lost following the crowd to stand up and do what is right when the time comes.. those who are selfless and moral.. those who follow their heart instead of their greed...

honest, real, meaningful write that speaks from the heart and reaches out and touches the hearts of the readers.. well done my friend...

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree. Small kind acts can change our world for the better.

[micky]

Probable my favorite piece of yours so far ;p... Well done!!!

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Micky. I do appreciate.

[Sheila Kline]

John, there are many who are that hero as the woman who helped your family when it was most needed - honest, kind, compassionate who give from what they have and they are too often never heard about, but they are there. May we each be a hero to someone in the way we can. Your words are powerful, and leave a hand print on my heart that is evidence of your kind caring spirit who feels life down to the soles of your feet.....admirable! Never change, keep writing as this and it just might touch another in a way that would not have happened otherwise! Yes, we need a hero!!!!!!!!!! -everyone of us!!!!

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Sheila. If we lead with love and kindness. Would be a better world for the all of us.

[Baby Ricochet]

Heroes are often ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations who rise to the moment and do something incredible and no one is more surprised by their act of heroism than they are. Like the Airline pilot named Sculley who landed a jet liner full of passengers in the Hudson river with no loss of life or the Iraqi women we sometimes saw pulling wounded out of the line of fire like their Jilbabs would deflect all the rounds. Some of them didn't make it. That could be difficult. Then there's everyday heroes like the lady who brought ya'll groceries when you were a pup. We need those kind of people today more than ever. Thanks coyote Great poem. It got me thinking.

[Coyote Poetry]

There are good people with us. We need to be one of them. Thank you for reading and the comment my friend.

[Cryingkate]

You are that Hero !

Remember , He who wanted already had?
The scarecrow wanted a brain
The Tin man wanted A Heart
The Lion wanted Courage
They all wanted what they already had
You are what you think about and asked for.

[Coyote Poetry]

We can't give up. When war is far. It will come near. War must end and we must be kinder to each other. You are always sweet and kind my friend.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Coyote ---- this is a theme in poetic prose...the lines say much to the reader...and the words themselves tell a story like narrative in your work...each passage in beginning breaks it down...and the second half takes into account of a hero(s)...and expressed that in each line...

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Glen for reading. We need more heroes and Angels.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

you're welcome...

[Pól]

very good write
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[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Paulo. I pray and hope for peace. We need more kindness and love.

[Pól]

yeah- the world is crazy