Filled with emotions that crept and crawled their way down
I’m lost and so far away, so used to my frown
These down questions have answers that I do not know
There is nothing in me that can offer a tow
I struggle to push these cold emotions away
To halt the fall into dark, to go out and play
While deep in this hole of muck and of mire
I need a light that is much bolder and brighter
There is no furniture, no rugs, and no lighting
No cover on walls, no new pictures for brightening
So into this craggy and sorrow filled space
I move in a big couch and three chairs for the place
New pictures on walls add color and inflection
It does not much matter if they lack perfection
When starting to get a renewed kind of feeling
It was time for rugs and something for a ceiling
Another furnishing bit to add to this scene
Some lights to assist me when I read or I clean
So lamps are placed one by a chair, one by a bed
With more light all around there is much less to dread
The brightening melts shadows and chases the dark
With brilliance that adds warmth to the shabby and stark
The more that is seen, shows how much more I can do
The alterations are so many, not just a few
The hole is still there but I’m less lost in my ways
Feeling strength as I clean up from that sad old place
Now my losses are much less, my gains soaring great
With change as my goal I had to redecorate
Richard Oppenheim helps individuals and companies get better. His effort is to deliver short term actions that will serve as the foundation for achieving long term goals, such as getting unstuck. He maps what is desired with what can be accomplished and then help create a personal road map for going forward.
As a CPA, Richard was an early innovator of computer based resources. Over the years, his efforts have integrated lots of business processes, personal actions, technology resources and decision making. He has developed computer based professional education courses and co-founded a company providing on-line education courses covering the areas of security, management and control over IT operations.
As an adjunct professor at NYU’s Graduate School of Business, Richard served as a Director with NYU’s Management Decision Laboratory. He graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and did post-graduate work at New York University.
His writing includes books, magazine columns, computer product reviews, feature articles, trade association pamphlets, book editing and ghostwriting.
His journey continues as he endeavors to guide and illuminate the path that others need to take.
