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“Sure nuff” (Poem/Song): Written By Viola Pressley

Sure nuff I want you, like I’ve never wanted anything on this earth before.
No need to wonder.
No need to think about it.
No doubt in my mind.
Baby I’m sure.

I want you more with each passing minute.
I want you more with each passing day.
My life is meaningless without you in it.
Never let anyone tell you anything different.
I love you endlessly.
I need you like the air I breathe.
What more can I say.

I want you beside me every step I take.
You are a very big part of me,
a part of every move I make.

I want you to sail away with me from shore to shore.
Every moment you’re far away from me makes me want you even more.

Sure nuff, as sure as the skies above,
I feel so different when I’m with you.
I feel like I’m on top of the world flying high
and there isn’t anything I can’t do.
Finally I’ve got the love of a lifetime by my side.
All my dreams can now become a reality,
now that I can share them with you.

I’ll take the good times along with the bad.
Nothing can compare to the love we have.
I’ll stand beside you through thick and thin,
even when it seems your world is falling apart and
the walls around you are caving in.

I’ve been in love with you for quite some time.
Love was right before your eyes but you couldn’t see the signs.
The loves you’ve lost have taken such a terrible toll on you,
they’ve left you blind.

They’ve left you too blind to see a good thing,
when it’s staring you right in the face.
Too blind to be able to tell the difference between love
when it’s the real thing and when it’s fake.

Too blind to realize that when love is in the palm of your hands,
you never let it go, for it may not return again.
Too blind to realize that it’s time to get over your hurt
and open your eyes to things that you should know.
This is now and that was then.

Sure nuff I need you, heart and soul.
I need you to call my own, to have and to hold.
I need you to share my days.
I need you toi share my nights.
From this moment and forever more,
I want to make you a part of my life.

"Zip Your Lips" (Poem/Song): Written By Viola Pressley

You say you think you're in love. Is that right?
Don't tell me. Could it be that I'm the one you supposedly love?,
you want to kiss and hold tight?

You say you think I'm beautiful. I'm just what every man dreams of.
You would give me the world on a silver platter,
if only you had my love.

Well I've got no time for games. No not today.
So I'm going to make this quick.
Here's what I have to say:

Zip it up, just zip your lips. Enough with your lies.
You wouldn't know the meaning of love no more than
put your hands up in the air, put your hands behind your back
and having your feet tied.

Guys like you should be arrested for committing a crime.
For deceiving, lying and cheating, breaking hearts all the time.

Zip it up, just zip your lips and get out of my sight.
This surely won't be your lucky day. No not tonight.

Zip it up, just zip your lips. Oh won't you give it a rest.
Don't try to prove your love to me.
You've already flunked before even taking the test.

Zip it up, just zip your lips.
I already know where you're coming from.
You're a heart breaker. You're a dream taker.
As far as being the love of my life,
baby you're not the one.

Zip it up, just zip your lips. You see I've heard enough.
I don't need you. I don't want you.
I'm no fool for love but to think that you would get mine,
definitely makes you a sucker out of luck.

You're a sucker if ever there was one.
The kind of sucker who is about to become undone.
You see you're about to find out that your sweet talking lies
and the games you play might fool some but not everyone.

Zip it up, won't you zip your lips.
You're just a sweet talking cheat.
You're every woman's worst nightmare,
every woman's horror story.
You're what every good woman doesn't need.
Now step off because you can't do a thing for me.

Substance Abuse: Once a person is too far gone you never recover


Hello and thanks for your reply. What I was trying to say by my statement I wrote that “when it comes to alcohol and substance abuse, once a person is too far gone they never recover is this: A lot of people who have abused drugs such as IV Heroin, had to be put on methadone treatment. The damage done to their body is so bad because of the addiction their body is weak, bones are weak, etc. In general their health is downhill from that point. God, faith and a miracle is the only thing that can get their health back to where they will live a lengthy time once being addicted for a certain period of time. I know true people/actual cases.

One female I am aware of was hooked on drugs and did manage to get help and stop using but sad to say, she died a few years later as doctors stated too much damage had been done to the body by her drug abuse which led to medical complications even after she stopped using.

Another person is alive right now whose case I am personally aware of who had a fight against drug addiction also, managed to get help by methadone treatment and/or stop using to the best of my knowledge but their body is in terrible shape. Just as with the other case above. Damage is done that is irreversible due to the drug use. Sad to say, but the truth is here again, this person is not going to live long based on the condition of the body.

Yes, you can stop using/abusing substances but you will never truly recover unless a total miracle from God. You may continue to live after abusing for a certain length of time but depending on damage the use has done to the body over that period of time, your life will be cut short.

There are cases where people abuse alcohol and think it’s no big deal, not that serious. They drink not knowing what is enough for them, what is too much.
A person died in their 20′s from alcohol abuse. Doctor’s said too much damage was done and there was nothing they could do. They notified family/friends and just waited for them to die. Only a total miracle could have saved their life because they needed new body parts.

Yes, people take risks and abuse substances but we fail to think of the damage it does internally to the body. Damage we may not know is there yet and/or if we have symptoms, we ignore them. Once our liver is destroyed by substance abuse/addiction, once substance abuse addiction has eaten away our body to the point we are down to like 110 lbs. or less, folks we are too far gone. Once it has damaged our internal organs to the point that even after we get help and stop using, it will still cause serious health problems that will eventually result in death within a few years, we are too far gone.

One guy abused drugs, got help and ended up dead a few years later. A friend of his who abused drugs also, had damage done to the body, ended up dead as well shortly after him. One more guy who they were acquainted with is still alive by a miracle, but his body is severely deteriorated looking, he has lost a lot of weight and can barely walk. He is not going to live long.

There is a case of an elderly man who abused substances. Yes he lived for a while but he still recently died due to damage done to the body.

There is a case involving an elderly woman who abused substances. Yes she continued to live after abusing substances for a while, but she eventually developed cancer in her body, needed operations, etc. and still eventually died within the next few years once her condition was fully aware of.

We as people need to start looking at substance abuse a lot more seriously. “Truth”. Truth is we act like it’s a joke many of us. We don’t care and/or think about the seriousness of using substances until we become ill due to it, as well as become aware of damage it has done to our body which may be irreversible too far gone once found. I have to admit based on what I have seen with my own eyes: People who like drinking alcohol, using drugs think it’s fun and cool, that is until they are hit with the cold blow by a doctor in a hospital telling them their liver is gone, they have cirrhosis and/or they have so much damage done to their body they won’t live long and there is nothing the doctor’s can do but just medicate them and/or other to try to keep them alive as long as possible.

Yes, people can abuse substances, go through rehab/treatment and still live. That does not mean they will live out a normal life though, which they often find out not far down the road. Some people just keep the news to them self and don’t tell others, but they know.

Yes, you can abuse substances, get help and manage to get through it but the body will never be the same again unless a miracle from God and I do believe in miracles but we have to face reality, how many people who have had very bad substance abuse addictions do we ever see their body go back to being in the healthy condition it was in before they abused substances???

Suicide: (Re: Post In Bedford-Katonah Patch) – Not all people have what it takes to help.


Wow, Thalia I have to say you hit it right on the nose. Reading some of these posts show that “there are not” and I will say “not” again, a lot of people with the mentality that can truly help others in distress in a positive way. There are people who do not know how to say anything uplifting “though they think they do”. I myself responded to an article I read from someone who totally annoyed me. All that person was doing was making themself feel big/important, like a know it all with regards to what they were saying about individuals in distress. I read the whole article and I did not see any part of it that would be uplifting to someone feeling down and out and/or depressed/suicidal and I wrote a response to that article to the original writer and told them what I thought. I told them straight out. I’m sorry to tell you but I don’t like the article you wrote and if I were ever a person in need of help, I surely would not come to you for it after reading your article. I told the writer to “take the time to read/pay attention to your own words”. Repeat it aloud to yourself and often when spoken aloud to yourself, you will then see clearly exactly how “negative and more depressing your statements are to those hearing/reading it. Not all people are cut out for all jobs, regardless if you have a degree for it or not. What I always say, some people have degrees and still don’t know a darn thing, lack “common sense”. Just like having teachers who can’t teach??

Suicide: What drives people to that point?, What is the solution? (Re: Death Of Mary Kennedy)

Posted on May 19, 2012 by violasparkle

I did some research on suicide related to the bible and I found some interesting facts.

Suicide is not a new idea. The Bible records seven suicides.

Abimelech
Judges 9:52-54
Abimelech lacked personal identity.

Samson
Judges 16:25-30
Samson died for a cause he believed in and for revenge.

Saul
1 Samuel 31:4
Saul was stressed out, unable to live up to certain expectations; felt rejected and a failure

Saul’s armor-bearer
1 Samuel 31:5
Impulse, he wanted to die with his boss. 40% of teenage suicide is impulse.

Ahithophel
2 Samuel 17:23
Ahithophel was bitter because his advice was not followed.

Zimri
1 Kings 16:15-20
Rebellion; Zimri had a problem with authority.

Judas
Matthew 27:3-5
Depressed, Judas felt trapped by materialism and guilt.

My feelings: The seven listed suicides above make a lot of sense and people should really think about them.

I’m going to briefly sum up some of the reasons/things that I feel cause people to commit suicide:

Instead of being yourself, that person you truly are, you allow others to change you into behaving certain ways you normally would not behave. You pretend to like things you do not like and/or be a part of things you truly do not want to be a part of and/or be around people you truly do not want to associate with in order to “be accepted and/or fit in”. You hide the “real you”, things you like, people you like because others may criticize it, make fun of you and/or cast you out. Instead of living your own life you behave in a manner like others are living your life for you, making your choices for you. This being the case, it’s as if your life is not your own and you will never find true happiness unless you can make up your mind to “live your life” and “please yourself”. After all God gave your life to you. You are your own person. You have your own mind. If others do not/cannot accept you for who you are, then they don’t have to accept you at all. Everyone wants to be loved and liked but not at the cost of “losing your true identity”, losing touch with the person you truly are.

Power And Authority: This is a good one. There are those people in the world who may have had hard lives growing up and/or have never known love and they grow up loving power and authority. It is what makes them happy, it is what keeps them going, it is what makes them feel big and important because possibly nothing else in their life does. If you really look at the picture I’m sure many of us may have come across a person whose love for power and authority drove them to do terrible things to people. As long as they felt they were in control of others/had power over others things would be okay. Once something should happen and they would no longer have that power or authority of someone/others, they would spiral out of control. Those who love power and authority find life hard where their power/authority is taken away and/or others do not fear them.
People who possess strong love for power and authority can be dangerous and cannot be trusted. They are people who conspire against anyone who does not fear them and/or stands up to them. If they are working and/or involved in some type of political position and they power/authority is taken away, somewhere down the road these people sometimes think of suicide and/or they die an early life. Life goes downhill for them once they no longer have their power/authority over others.

With regards to Materialism and Guilt: Some of use long for the life of wealth/fame/material things. Once some of us have these things we fail to see that while having these things may be nice, they can’t buy you true love, friends and happiness. Yes, some of us who have wealth and material things, we forget about the less fortunate people and/or we look down upon them. If you look at the picture “see the truth for what it is”, in the world of the rich and famous some end up committing suicide because they wake up and realize they have all the material things they could wish for, but do they have true love, do they have true friends. The kind of love and friends that would be there if one day all their money was gone?? Some people who have wealth material things have ill parents who have raised them and once they become ill they just stick them in nursing homes, they don’t want the responsibility of taking care of them. They are too busy with spending all their wealth taking cruises and traveling all the time, etc. They neglect their own parents and yet when they die they are there to take/claim their inheritance quickly, which is where the guilt comes in. There have been stories told where famous people who have had wealth but neglected their family, once their family died they have terrible nightmares, saw visions of them deceased, etc. as if being haunted by them because of their greed and selfishness. They were haunted to the point it drove them to suicide or landed them in a mental institution. I’m sure many of us can relate to this. I bet there are many of us out in the world right now living off our dead relatives money when we neglected them/never took care of them but instead stuck them in a nursing home once they became ill and only stuck around enough to take all their money once they died.

Suicide on Impulse: This is true also. I must admit it. Some things in life are a case of “follow-the-leader and/or brain wash”. People need to take a deeper look into this. Sometimes there are those who commit suicide and we automatically think a person had to have some ongoing problems and/or other for a long time in order to commit suicide. Not true. When it comes to young people, teenagers, it’s like “follow-the-leader” with young people sometimes. One person thinks up the crazy idea of suicide “possibly due to lack of attention” and like they say “misery loves company”. They don’t want to go out alone so they try to brainwash others to follow their steps, without having and reasons to do so. If you find your children doing things such as “saying they want to kill them self, cutting and/or other physical abuse they do to them self”, you need to check their friends. It is not necessarily their idea. Just like you have drug pushers you also have pushers who try to brainwash others into harming them self. They look for weak-minded people and/or people with low self-esteem, people who make it obvious by their behavior that “they want to fit in”, by doing things they never did before they met them like smoking, drinking, abusing prescription pills.

Feeling unable to live up to expectations: This is another thing that can definitely push people over the edge. I am sure there are a lot of crimes that are unsolved that can possibly relate to this topic, as well as crimes that are known to the public such as with the case of “The Menendez Brothers” who killed their parents.
Once again I will say that we lose track of the most important things in life. Life is not just about the money, wealth and material things all the time folks.
I’m sure more suicides than those known of have most likely occurred by people/children, because they felt they could not live up to their parents/family’s expectations.
There are some parents who raise children and we allow them to grow up and “be their own person”. We encourage them to take part in what they enjoy and go to the college of their choice, as well as grow up and marry/date the partner of their choice. We give them the freedom and peace to live their own life and be their own person.
Then again, we have the parents who raise children and tell them what they want them to be, “instead of asking them what they would like to be” and encouraging them to go after what they like/take interest in. There are those parents who force their children to take part in the activities they want them to be a part of, sometimes to “follow in this person’s and/or that person’s footsteps” as they say. Not good. Let them find what it is they enjoy and do it. By making statements to someone all the time such as “Don’t you want to follow is this person and/or that person’s foot steps” is going to push them over the edge if that is not what they want to do. Sometimes young people will hold their true feelings inside with regards to the truth and not speak up for feeling “They will let their parents down”. Young people need to speak up and parents should allow them to state their true feelings, whatever that may be with regards to what they want to do with their life. Some parents want to totally control who their children date/marry. You will push them over the edge when you do this. Now if a person is trouble and/or they are a bad influence that is a justifiable reason to not want them to date a person. On the other hand if money, wealth and/or the fact they don’t kiss up to you is the excuse, that’s not going to do it. Some parents who are wealthy only want their children to marry other wealthy people?? That shouldn’t matter. What you want is someone to marry them for who they are, the right reasons, period. Not for what they have/own.

Dying for a cause you believe in and/or for revenge: Yes this is another one. As we know it we have had mass groups of people who have died for a cause they believed in. Suicide bombers do this all the time?? We have the true story of the “Guyana Tragedy & Jim Jones”, there is also “Waco” and one more is “Heaven’s Gate”, which is a UFO religion?? Sad but true. These true stories listed above just speak for them self. They show us how “truly weak-minded” and “easily brain washed” we can be. Some of us anyway. We have to stop being so easily led astray as a follower and put ourself in the leader position.

Last but not least, we have the case of being bitter because his advice was not taken: Now people, it’s nice to want to help people but you can’t force others to take your help and/or listen to you. There are those of us who want to bring good to the world and/or possibly try to help others but like the saying goes “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink”. When others do not want to take your advice and/or others, you have to just accept it. You are no less of a person because others “choose not to take your advice”. You are no superhero expected to save the world.

Faith in God is the solution to suicide.

Suicide And The Damage It Causes: (Re: Death of Mary Kennedy-Article In Bedford-Katonah Patch)

Posted on May 19, 2012 by violasparkle

Very true Theresa. When it comes to a person being driven to the point of suicide, I don’t think they really put much thought into the damage it will do to those left behind who loved you. Not just your kids but also your friends. Sometimes suicide leaves others blaming them self, feeling they are to blame because they could have done something to prevent it and/or stop it but truth is, sometimes people are just pushed over the edge by whatever drove them to that point.

Other people cannot necessarily control what goes on in another person’s life but when we truly care, “we can give them positive advice, words of encouragement and try to get them any help they need if they will accept it.

Alcohol and substance abuse are two things that “once a person is too far gone”, truth is they will never recover. Their abuse has gotten out of control where they can’t fight it and/or feel there is no help for them and their only way out is by suicide. They give up the fight and lose faith.

Some people who do manage to survive substance abuse/addiction, once they have stopped using, many die later due to very poor health/damage done to the body that is irreversible.

Some may be coerced into trying drugs/substances again by those who know they have had substance abuse problems and they end up dying of an overdose.

Suicide & Death (Re: Mary Kennedy Article in Bedford Katonah Patch)

I must say Paula you have made a good point. We live in a tough cruel world. One thing I have to say is I think we all need to have some faith in God because faith is what will give us the strength to deal with the ignorance, heartlessness and cruelness of people in this world and make us realize just how “we are the better person” when we are not like those who are. It’s sad when things happen in life that cause a person to get to the point of suicide. Some people allow the life they lead to get the best of them/change them in the worst way. Sad but true. Sometimes we need to take the time to think, look at the picture and see what is truly good for us and what is bad for us. In some situations the wealth, fame and being in the spotlight is not worth it and if we may be caught up in it with the wrong people/people who are not making us happy and or helping to cause us to take a path down the wrong road, we need to break away from them and/or that lifestyle. There have been Queens as well as others who have committed suicide. The life they led was not the life that made them happy.

That’s why it is so true that “money and material things, being in the spotlight and fame is not everything” and not always what some people make it out to be. We just need to be wise enough to know that.

We can find a life of fame and fortune but find it with “good caring people”. People who never lose love/sight of even the simple things that are important.

“Wicked Man” (Poem/Song): Written By Viola Pressley

He’s evil, pure evil. He’s a wicked man.
You better move out. Pack your bags and get out.
Run as fast as you can.

Time is of the essence. You haven’t a minute to waste.
Hear my warning, take me seriously.
Your life depends upon the choice you make.

He’s pure evil straight down to the bone.
The devil in disguise, you better leave him alone.

He’s not at all the man you think he is.
He possesses mind controlling power that’s hard for anyone to resist.

Once he has you under his control, you will never recover.
Your thoughts will no longer be your own.
You will think how he wants you to think.
You will only say words he wants to hear.
You will be emotionless, you will be powerless.
You will answer to him only, never another.
It will be just you and him forever in his world,
the two of you alone.

He’s a man with a heart of stone.
He’s as cold as ice.
He’ll only bring you heartache and pain.
You’ll see a lot less sunshine and far more rain.
You deserve a whole lot better than him.
He’ll never treat you right.

Don’t expect to get love from him,
for you’ll never receive it.
Truth is, he’s never known love.
Therefore it’s practically impossible for him to give it.
You better believe it.

“Kiss Kiss” (Poem/Song): Written By Viola Pressley

Kiss Kiss baby I love you.
Don’t you ever forget it.
Open your heart and let me in.
I promise you’ll never regret it.

You are the sunshine that lights my way.
You came into my life like a rain storm.
You washed any worries and troubles away.

Like the moonlight, you add magic to my life.
Like a soothing touch, you make me feel so good
and the feeling feels so right.

Like a cool summer breeze, you make me feel so relaxed,
you make me feel a sense of peace.

Kiss Kiss I find you so hard to resist.
I feel like I’m drawn to you by some magnetic force.
A force that keeps pulling me closer and closer.
As I try to fight it I keep telling myself over and over,
I can continue to fight it or I can give in.
If it turns out to be love this is one battle I won’t win.
Something tells me, yes I must say I’m pretty sure,
this is one battle already lost.
I surrender, just take me. I’m yours.

What I desire more than anything, my greatest wish,
is just to have your love from now until forever.
Kiss Kiss.