Ordinary Me: Perseverance Personified

By Martin Schimcek

After Stitches and Scars was published, I felt I had so much more to say about myself and my life, which includes living with a disability due to Cerebral Palsy. Losing many family members and friends at an early age really took a toll on me and is part of the inspiration for writing Ordinary Me, as well as my first book. Peace and God bless!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669837534

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Rev. date: 09/28/2022

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For my great niece

Sarah Ghannam

who left this world way too soon?

Love, Uncle Martin

Contents

Pick Out a Star

For Baby Sarah

Heaven’s Playground

When That Texas Sunsets

Missing

Reflections

Sky

Gone!

With Love

Beauty

Wish

Our Spirit

PAIN!

Say

Enjoy!

Life’s Rimes

Just Ordinary Me

Comfortable, In Our Skin

The Big Picture

Young

With This

Words

Broken Fences

Be

Time Just Ticks Away

Lines

Our Dreams

Superhero

1,300 ft.

The Dark Side of the Rainbow

Beauty

The Right Path

That Tattered Blue T-Shirt

Little One

The Rumor

Laughter

Rainy Day

A Poet’s Last Request

The Quiet Kid in the Lunchroom!

The Hurt

Why?

A War Corpse

Whisper of Wind

Oblivion-the Future

Where Have All the People Gone?

A Tribute to My Mother

When the Day Wakes Up Golden

The Sparrow

Rockers

Today

A Speck of Truth

Nature

Junior

Contemplation-Suicide

Death

The Circle

Between the Cracks

This literary journey has sure taken me in so many, different directions, over my sixty-three years living on this great and beautiful planet we call Earth. Growing up poor and physically disabled is not such a great way to start a writer’s literary existence. I struggled for many years with depression and low self-esteem. My salvation and or redemption started when I graduated from El Campo High School. I survived so much within, those four years, things like losing my dad at the age of thirteen. He died painfully alone on a quiet, highway tragically by a hit-and-run drunk driver. I experienced isolated bullying incidents during my freshman and sophomore years. I found my true niche for writing at Wharton County Junior College. That is where I truly hit my creative stride. Ordinary Me is my initial attempt to write on my own. This book is filled with victories and defeats, heartache, and that warm and fuzzy feeling called love and acceptance that took way too long to achieve. This is also my first attempt to venture off into the literary world of short story writing, dealing with a variety of subjects. My overall goal for Ordinary Me is simply to let my readers get to know me a little better, with each turn of the page. My new mantra for life is Live in the moment, always! May Ordinary Me be my reader’s own, literary, comfort zone, a heartfelt easy read. I graciously dedicate this book to my long-deceased father, Edmund Edward Schimcek, who truly deserves so much more. Also included is my sister Earlene Janak, who helped me through so many things growing up. I truly hope all the readers of Ordinary Me feel the honest message that I was trying to convey, which is to love each other and to always pay it forward because in the end, what do we all have left regarding leaving something behind for the whole world to enjoy. Stop the hatred, and let us all embrace the better idea of universal peace and find the answer to the overall humanitarian equation. That has yet to be solved. I am dedicating this book to our Father Edmund Edward Schimcek, and my middle sister, Earlene Jean Janak Schimcek, who both deserved so much more out of life.

Pick Out a Star

On a clear cool Christmas night

A small child in a manager lie still

In his loving mother’s arms.

The world outside was filled

With pain and sorrow and nonbelievers.

It is amazing that even after two thousand years

We still have so many people that doubt their faith.

On this holy night let us pick out a star

For the soldiers who died a-far.

On this blessed eve, let us pick out a star,

And learn to forgive, and be thankful for the simple things.

On a