He Guides My Path – The Writing of Sarah Berthelson

‘I am bored’, have you heard that line before?
Seems as if we never have enough to keep us happy
We have everything that is needed today,
Yet we are bored, so let us go play
The children have every toy that is made
We have taught them that this toy will fade
And to the store we go, just to get more
Oh my goodness, my child is bored
They learn this from us, who run all around
We shop until we drop and that does not satisfy
Must go out to eat or back to the mall
Wishing all along the empty spot we could fill
We are not happy with the running around
Why can’t we be still?
Why all the boredom in our world today?
Too many toys and not enough pay
Try not to say I am bored, if you may.

The 4-H club was a very big deal for the Country kids
It was a place that we could belong and not go wrong
Every year we had a big parade in our little town
Every kid in the county would have on their green and white
Line up at the Court House and walk all over town
Up one street and down the other with the band playing
Oh what a deal this just had to be for us to be seen
The only problem with me was my mama decided that I needed new shoes
So every year at the great parade I had on my little green skirt
The white blouse and my pretty new shoes
There was a big problem as big as the parade
The new shoes caused a problem that you would not believe
I had blisters on my feet that covered my heels
I suffered threw it all because this was a big deal
Often I wondered if the other kids had blisters too
I would have never asked, did not want them to know
I wore defective Shoes!!

I learned this strange word several years ago
Bipolar was the word that I did not understand
As the doctor looked at my handsome son,
He said, ‘bipolar is what he has’
Never did I know what this disease could do
My wonderful child suffered and I could not know
The torture he felt when he was so low
Or the excitement he felt when he was high
To my sorrow I wish I had known
Just what he was going through
One day he said, Mom I enjoy the highs
But I know the low will come
It came one day with much despair
He went down in the woods and took his life
Oh how my heart aches today for the one that is gone
Manic-Depression is another name for this
Remember you are loved and take your medication
Don’t let BIPOLAR take control!!

I bought a cute new car the first year that I taught school
Never had much money, never gave it a thought
On the way to school one day a gas truck turned in front of me
I was hurt and my little blue car was totaled
A few months passed and due to the help from a wonderful man
I had a huge check in my hand
So frightened to see that much money made out to me
Gave some money to my parents so they could pay their bills
Bought pulpit furniture for a little church down the hill
Looked around one down and saw this beautiful thunderbird
Walked in and bought it with very few words
A foolish mistake as I soon learned
The money was gone
I was the one burned!!!