The Death Makers


Terri Schindler-Schiavo

has gone to meet her maker

With the blessing's of Judge Greer

who decreed that death should take her......

Did Terri want to leave her mom and dad

To cry for her their whole life through

Or did it make her sad

Watching them beg God to show them what to do?

The pro-deathers who had control

of Terri's destiny

Chose to deny her food and water

until death set her spirit free........

For thirteen days Terri waited

her body drying out in hunger's misery

While those who sought to end her life

Lived the life of luxury..........

Terri died! Terri died!

But the pro-deathers are not satisfied

Greer still sets on justice's bench

Felos still talks to the dead

And Michael Schiavo still can't accept the fact

That he lost Terri's love along time back.

So. What now America? Do we follow

The pro-deathers' lead......

Do we now kill all the disabled

that society says we no longer need?

What now America?What now?

-Janice Sanford

The Hunger to be Free on American Soil

Today, Terri Schindler-Schiavo died
In Pinellas Park's Woodside
As people prayed all around the world
that someone would give her a drink of water
and a morsel of food to stop her hunger
She died clinging to a hope that ,in this life,
never was to be..........
Terri died hungry-Terri died needlessly,
Terri died in the country she loved
denied her liberty.

Shame, on you America! Shame on me!
As we filled our plates with food
and filled our cups, on American soil
Poor, helpless Terri Schindler-Schiavo
died wanting.............. Why? Can it be
That Satan now has come to power
in the land that was once was free?

Shame on the U.S. President!
Shame on the U.S. Congress!
Shame on state and federal Judges!
Shame on Jeb Bush for failing
To honor his oath of office
Shame on the state Senators
Shame on anyone who had a vote
in whether or not Terri Schindler-Schiavo
should live or die
And chose to let her die
For your vote and lack of caring showed through
and by your inability to protect Terri's Liberty
Her blood now stains the Red, White, and Blue;

Shame, on you America! Shame on me!
As we filled our plates with food
and filled our cups, on American soil
Poor, helpless Terri Schindler-Schiavo
died wanting.............. Why? Can it be
That Satan now has come to power
in the land that was once was free?


Shame is now the future's lot-----
May all future generations learn
in our passing.....the lessons of old
That many Americans living today have forgot:

Without equality among man
Justice cannot stand.......
Without Heroes of fine character to lead theAmerican People
We become what we hate most-a self-centered lot
Neglecting the things that made our nation strong......
May God forgive them for what they have done
-Because America will not!


-Janice Sanford

Liberty's Child

In the land of milk and honey

A family weeps, a mother cries

As their Terri is being starved

Right before their very eyes;

The sweet lips that once sang

"America God shine his light on thee"

Are now cracked and dry

No water for Terri in the land of the free;



With lips parched and dry

Terri looks into her mother's eyes

from eyes sinking back into her eye-sockets

And asks with her eyes "why"?

With a heart that had no more tears

Terri's mother leaned over

and whispered in Terri's ear

"God has shined His light on you

You are the one God chose to walk the mile

You, my Terri, are Liberty's Child."

With lips parched and dry

Terri looks into her mother's eyes

from eyes sinking back into her eye-sockets

And asks with her eyes "why"?

And, that is my question to you

who are free to taste the water"Why?"

Why, in the (once) greatest country on earth,

Does disabled Terri Schiavo have to die?

If you are a father or mother

look into the faces of your children

And tell me how will you answer them

When the time comes for them to ask:

"What does liberty really mean?

When you saw Terri's mom and dad cry

What did you do.....and what was your answer

to Terri Schindler-Schiavo when she asked you "Why?"

-Janice Sanford

The Cry to Be Free


If I am to be worthy

of the life inside of me

What would you have me do

My flag red,white, and blue

Do I take you at your word

that the right to life and liberty

Include those like me

who are not able to lift you high

but who will carry you inside their hearts

until the day they die.........



America, as you watch from your homes

Lady Liberty crumble to the ground,

promises of equality

rust away with the Liberty Bell

And the Declaration of Independence

turn to dust and blow past

the fading flag that was carried

by those who had a dream

that their offspring might be worthy

of the great Nation they molded from their dreams,

nurtured with their blood, sweat and tears..............

Then left to you and me.

Think of Terri Schiavo starving for food

when just a sip of water would take her thirst away

Think of the American family striped of the daughter

Who lay a reminder of what we, as a people, at her death,

will become........



Open up your heart America...

Heed the cry of liberty

For by your scilence you have sentenced

one of your own to die beneath Liberty's Tree..



If I am to be worthy of the life inside of me

What would you have me do

My flag red,white, and blue

Do I take you at your word

that the right to life and liberty

Include those like me

who are not able to lift you high

but who will carry you inside their hearts

until the day they die.........

-Janice Sanford

Freedom's Seed

Terri Schiavo is sick not dead
Today, she lay on the alter
of unwontedness
A helpless sacrificial lamb
for life's madness,
at selfishness' demand;
In a country where a child
Is taught to love and respect
the good in mankind
she awaits the verdict of humanity
engulfed by the hands of neglect;
As to herself she wonders 'which will it be?'
Like Jesus who stood alone
Awaiting sentence so lone ago
Terri Schiavo is alone
Awaiting the moment when
Justice will open her eyes
break her bonds, set her body free
And bound up the hands of inequality
that seeks to drain the life
from all it deems unfit to live
Within the boundaries of liberty.
Like our forefathers so long ago
who planted freedom seeds
and watched them grow
who took up arms against those
who threatened freedom's fields
who threw us liberty's torch
with their dying hand
Americans will respond
in their country's time of need
free those in chains
and continue
to nurture all conceived
From liberty's seed.
Terri Schiavo is but another
test of liberty's seed
as she lay longing to be free
Americans shall rise up
And kill inequality's weed.
with no less of a vengeance
then those who first planted
with faith and prayer
freedom's first seed
That they nurtured with so much care.

-Janice Sanford

After talking with her parents, her sister, her brother, and others who had been supporting Terri and her family for years, this is the poem that was given to me from deep within.

I can only ask that you take it to heart and then decide whether or not you think Terri should be killed by starvation.


The Evil Person

There is a secret that the world must know
Please, don't let them kill me
I know you think that I am a vegetable
And many thinks its OK to pull my
feeding-tube and let me die
But please tell me why
Why would you agree to help finish
killing me;
When they pulled my tube
And I was not fed for six days
I begged for food and was denied
You couldn't hear my cries
Because you did not listen close
enough to your heart;
Please, don't let them kill me
I am alive! And I want to live!
There is a secret that the world must know
Please, don't let them kill me
I am not a vegetable
On the day I feared for my life
An angel came to me and covered me
With his wings
so that I would be safe from the evil person
who had tried to destroy my life;
For thirteen years I have watched as life passed me by
But I would not dare let that evil person know that
that I know what he did to me;
He comes in to my room
and prays for me to die
He has even tried a time or two
Tomake his death wish for me come true.
But no one knows that but me;
And if you let them kill me
my blood will be on your hands too.
You can never know how it feels
to watch those you love crying
and not be able to comfort them.....
For fear that that evil person would find out,
and maybe hurt them too.
This evil person tells everyone that he loves me
Of course he does. That is why he wants me dead
I am alive! And I want to live!
Please, don't let them kill me.
The angel keeps on telling me that it is my fear
That keeps me under his wing
I am just so afraid
I am afraid that evil person will again try to chock
the life from my body;
I really want to show myself
my family would be so happy
but I can't not yet!
The evil person is to near.......
I am afraid to even show a tear.
My angel tells me that the good in people
shall one day show itself to protect me
And I keep asking "when?"
-Janice Sanford (Oct 27,2003)

A Call To Arms

Dear America, I am depending on you
to help our nation once more get through
the rough times....Once, our young nation
struggled to stand
Amidst the mindset of inequality among man;
But thanks to those Americans who rose up like lions
to put their life on the line for equality among all mankind
Our nation continues to be
the home of the brave-The home of the free.....
But like other times in our American history
when acts of inequality among men raised its ugly head
Today, we need your sons and daughters
To stand guard over Terri Schiavo's bed.
This is a call to arms
Light Liberty's torch ...let her hold it high
to warn those who would cause the innocent harm

Raise high old Glory- the Red, White, and Blue
Ring the Liberty Bell! Sound the alarm!
Release the Eagle!....Let her fly
from sea to shining sea over freedom's sky
Break the arms of injustice!
Give justice the reigns once more! Set Terri Schiavo free!
Then once more every American shall share equally

-the God given right to live and to die free.

-Janice Sanford

Your Soul Has Touched My Heart

I will not quit its not over yet
You will be free You will be free
Free to smell the flowers
and pick a sweet bouquet
Free to go out in the sun
and watch the children at play
I will not quit
Your soul has touched my heart
And caused me
to feel your longing to be free
free to come out of your self again
and free to feel the love of family
Free just to breathe and feel the
life inside of you Free
without fear of dying hungry.
I will not quit!
It's not over yet!
You will be free.......you will be free.
-Janice Sanford

Betrayal

He left her alone to crave for his touch
Despite what she needed. He loved another too much

He left her alone to win another's praise,
Alone and broken hearted. Lost inside a thick maze....

He bought her no gifts. Gave her no kind words
left her for another......No time for her.

So she spends her days silent and all alone
Constantly striving to find a way, to make her self known

He knows she needs help but he won't give her no aid
So she's forced to watch as love fades away.

He knows what is wrong. He hasn't been true
He'd like to forget what he put her through....

She has saw them together....
She knows of her husband's betrayal
He pretends it's out of love he wants her life to end
as he prays for her strong will to fail.......

But. She knows the evil that feeds his hunger
She has felt the pain he lay on her heart
she won't take it any longer......
She will will herself better
and in time she will be stronger.

She will wait until he thinks he has won
until he thinks he is home free
Then she will rise up from her sleep
and her promise she'll keep.......

The world will know
what really happened on that day so long ago
When she finally got up the nerve to leave
the one who stole her life's glow.

-Janice Sanford