THE VOICE

There is a voice inside of you
That whispers all day long,
"I feel that this is right for me,
I know that this is wrong."
No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
Or wise man can decide
What's right for you -- just listen to
The voice that speaks inside.

-Shel Silverstein

I SAID A PRAYER FOR YOU TODAY...

I said a prayer for you today
And know God must have heard.
I felt the answer in my heart
Although He spoke not a word.
I didn't ask for wealth or fame
(I knew you wouldn't mind).
I asked for priceless treasure rare
Of a more lasting kind.
I prayed that He'd be near you
At the start of each new day
To grant you health and blessings fair,
And friends to share your way.
I asked for happiness for you
In all things great and small
But that you'd know his loving care
I prayed the most of all.

-Author Unknown

POEM for Electrical Engineers

I was alone and all was dark
Beneath me and above
My life was full of volts and amps
But not the spark of love

But now that you are here with me
My heart is overjoyed
You turn the square of my heart
Into a sinusoid

You load things from my memory
Onto my system's bus
My life was once Machine Language
Now it is C++

I love the way you solder things
My circuits you can fix
The voltage across your diode is
Much more than just point six

With your amps and resistors
You have built my integrator
I can not survive without you
You are my function generator

You have charged my life, Increased my gain
And made my math discreet
And now I'll end my poem here
Control, Alt and Delete.......

-Author Unknown

The Missing Piece

It was missing a piece
And it was not happy.

So it set off in search
of its missing piece

And as it rolled
It sang this song -

"Oh I'm looking for my missin' piece
I'm looking for my missin' piece.
Hi-dee-ho, here I go,
Lookin' for my missin' piece."
Over land and over seas
So grease my knees and fleece my bees
I'm lookin' for my missin' piece."

Through swamps and jungles
Up mountains
and down mountains

Until one day, lo and behold!
"I've found my missin' piece," it sang.
I've found my missin' piece,
So grease my knees and fleece my bees
I've found my missin' piece."

"Wait a minute" said the piece
"Before you go greasing your knees
and fleecing your bees..."

"I am not your missing piece.
I am nobody's piece.
I am my own piece.
and even if I was
somebody's missing piece,
I don't think I'd be yours!"

"Oh," it said sadly,
"I'm sorry to have bothered you."
And on it rolled.

It found another piece,
but this one was too small.
And this one was too big.
This one was a little too sharp.
And this one was too square.

One time it seemed to have found
the perfect piece

But it didn't hold tightly enough
And lost it.

Another time
It held too tightly

And it broke.

So on and on it rolled.
Having adventures
falling into holes
And bumping into stone walls.
And then one day it came upon
another piece that seemed
to be just right.
"Hi!" It said.
"Hi!" said the piece
"Are you anybody else's missing piece?"
"Not that I know of."
"Well, maybe you want to be your own piece?"
"I can be someone's and still be my own."
"Well, Maybe you don't want to be mine."
"Maybe I do!"
"Maybe we won't fit..."
"Well..."

"Hummmmm?"
"Ummmmmm?"

It fit
It fit perfectly
At last! At last!

And away it rolled
and because it was now complete
it rolled faster
and faster.
Faster than it had
ever rolled before!

So fast that it could not stop
to talk to a worm
or smell a flower.
too fast for a butterfly to land!

But it could sing this happy song.
at last it could sing,
"I've found my missing piece."

And it began to sing -

"I've frown my nizzin geez.
Of urgun my nutzin brees
so freage ny drees
Uf froun..."

Oh my, now that
It was complete
it could not sing at all.

"Aha" it thought.
"So that's how it is!"

So it stopped rolling...

And it set the piece down gently
and slowly it rolled away

And as it rolled away
it softly sang -

"Oh I'm looking for my missin' piece
I'm looking for my missin' piece.
Hi-dee-ho, here I go,
Lookin' for my missin' piece."

-Shel Silverstein