My Second Manuscript

By Henry Witt

This book is a collection of writings that Henry Witt began in 1975. It has taken 46 years to publish and is a dream fulfilled.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: May 20, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664175754

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Contents

I Being The Prisoner

Goodbye Rebecca Jo

We are The Stars

Sweet Lonely

Roundhouse Town

Song for Mister H

This Cowboy

She Done Me Wrong

Ever-More

My Good Momma Die

Her Name was Sain

The Sheriff

My Love and Kind Regard

Sixty Four Days

I Am Mary

Christian Hope

Our Journey Home

It’s All Because of You

Longtime Playin Blues for My Baby

Momma I’m Crying

Where are Ya Goin

Today in Recovery

A collection of short ideas

Hello Mr. Tear-drops

Winter Room

Prayer

My Love

I’ll be There

The Battlefield

I Can’t Be Your Clown Today

Beckys Chair

A Universal Controversy

Take ah Look Around

At Twenty Two

May He 2-26-2002

Prayer

To Earnest Smucker

A Prayer By The Power of The Holy Spirit

My Decision

Found Poem

Looking back

A World of Trouble

Restless and Edgy

Prayer

All Things Were Created by Him

Oh Don’t You Know

Baby I’m on Fire

Kings and Queens and Wedding Rings

Tuesday Evening

I Sing to The Lord

Environmental Statement

My Thoughts on Emotions

The Wedding Ballad

A Lady Blue

Morning Sky

A Portrait of a Girl

My Friend Joe

A Hill Called Calvary

Gods Soldier

Dungeon of Despair

The Shovel

My Journey through Darkness into Light

In Remembrance of My Nephew Mark Moore

Conclusion

Sorrow and Remorse. 2014

These writings were written October 31, 2001, Halloween night, six nights prior to my mother’s death November 5, 2001. Although my mind was not psychotic at this time soon my mental capacity would deteriorate and my mother’s death would occur while I was going through an intense rage due to mental trauma and a lack of medications for my mental condition, paranoid schizophrenia. This marked the end of my normal life and the beginning of a life that would never be normal again, a life with a reason for great sorrow and remorse, and a life without my mother’s guidance, and love. I turn to my Lord and Savior Jesus for help when the emotional pain becomes too great, and by the power of prayer he takes away the pain and suffering and once again I find peace in my mind. I believe Jesus is working in my life and through Him I am forgiven for what I have done.

A Ray of Hope and a Reason to Believe. 2001

This writing is what I believe life is and what life should be. Now at the age of 44, I have seen a happy childhood, carefree teens, and a darkness I did not know until light shined upon me. I became a born-again Christian on Father’s Day of the year 2000. This is when the darkness began to lift and the light began to shine. It has been a fierce struggle and one I believe I was to take on by the will of God, the Father. No other single idea, regarding mental illness, has helped me more with this struggle, than a comment made by a Dr. of psychiatry named Dr. Yoder, who practiced at Prairieview Hospital in Newton, Kansas, where I lived for seven years. At this time I was in my late 20s and suffering through severe symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. During a session he commented that in some cases like mine, the illness begins to recede after the age of 40. I held on to this belief for 10 more dark years and then at the age of 40 it came to pass, my symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia began to recede, and my recovery from paranoid schizophrenia began. My life slowly started to improve, and today my mental illness is calm and my mind is at peace. Dr. Yoder gave me hope that I held on to and this hope helped me survive the turbulent years of paranoid schizophrenia. God bless you Dr. Yoder.

A Fleeting Moment. 2001.

Everyone at one time or another has had trouble with their mind. A healthy person has problems, and a person who will not face their problems, will never find a solution to the problems in their life. Some problems have simple solutions, and some problems have more complex solutions, and sometimes there are problems that have no solutions at all. Look at the beauty, not the ugliness. It might shine bright in the window, the window being your mind, let someone look in.

Perfection is a fleeting moment. Do it now, or do it later, or never do it all. Life is a struggle, and you are a part of life. You will find caring a difficult way to live, this is to those who care to understand these ideas, I have realized. Those with different ideas will go a different way, and time moves on with the merging together of people’s ideas.

Do not let others determine your self-worth. Keep in mind, oxygen, water, food. Of these only oxygen is free. Praise God above for what He has given.

One part of mainstream society is living next to your neighbor. This is not always a social relationship. If it is a sociable relationship, your