Love and Heartbreak (From the Lens of Gen Z) by Michael Doyle
It's not worth a second glance This pathos of modern romance Gen Z is alright to join the dance But a steady love has blown its chance
Roll the bones and place the bet Nine times out of ten, it's regret That comes rolling home to keep Smart boys and girls don't want to weep
It's no longer held with great optimism That there is truth in Plato's Symposium It's not the love has been replaced by hate It's only that soulmates tend to complicate
Who in this rush-a-day world will sacrifice It seems an antiquated plot theme of artifice Being dependent on another half causes scare And really who has time enough to care?
Giving the best is a waste of risky business History seems to show that there is no bliss But that every step walked should be in independence Isn't it dysfunctional to believe in codependence?
Generations lost in space have lost the ability Refusing to surrender to the beauty of vulnerability Hesitation undefined lends itself to situationship Which on the surface is safer than relationship
It's no longer held with great optimism That there is truth in Plato's Symposium It's not the love has been replaced by hate It's only that soul mates tend to complicate
Who in this rush-a-day world will sacrifice It seems an antiquated plot theme of artifice Being dependent on another half causes scare And really who has time enough to care?
Trial and error leads hearts astray and alone It is better to stay safe and on one's own Shades of a brave new world floats into vision As true coping mechanisms are treated with derision
Splintered marriages are known by their multiplication A history to learn from and identity fates the satisfaction The march of time has grown slower in its jaded hesitation Can they come to believe without the rite of initiation?
(c) March 10, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.” – Mark Twain
My life's abundance has no regret My gains are my life's net My life has become better since I met Our Lord and savior, never to forget
My belief, our belief, quietly persists That our God fully and entirely exists As we see the truth of our need He takes on our debt and we are freed
This peace and grace give our hope and love As we walk the Earth as if in Heaven above In our waking moment we celebrate the good With God's holiness becoming understood
I've stood astounded by what I'm viewing And knowing that it is all His doing In the game of comparison, there is no debate That Adam's fall made mankind wait
Until Jesus walked among us in grace Overflowing with love and just justified the human race Disobedience caused us to pay our consequence The grace of God brought us our recompense
One man came in the name of love To redeem us to God above One sin cracked the world's door Making mankind realize we needed more
Blame shifting fixed nothing for the blind The problem is with vision in all of mankind Doing it our way changed our day Until we came to doing it God's way
Jesus is the path and the remedy Having died on the cross for you and me It's the great reversal back to the beginning Adam's legacy; Jesus's victory - mankind's winning
Believing no one took nothing and created everything Is not scientific in understanding this thing That we see all around us comprehend The walk of faith explores a lot to upend
The false arguments that the unbelievers present God is in the business of gaining our consent To live our best lives in His full majesty Through gracefully giving our heavenly victory
God walked into the desperation of opportunity Waking humanity up to find our true liberty He walked us back from our eternal alienation Despite ourselves, he has secured our salvation
All of our brokenness is put to one side When we humbly put away our fall pride It is suggested quietly and shaped by a love this tender That we gain our grace with our gentle surrender
Born again into taking up our rightful legacy Humanity stumbles its way into our victory As Jesus died for us on his account, not our own This is indeed the only way that mankind atones
(c) March 9, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Thoughts On the International Day of Women 2025 by Michael Doyle
Equality leads to an empowered community Well behaved women seldom make history But it is woman in all her nobility of voice That must make her own way and through choice
A muffled chorus rises from mouths of silence That have too often been muffled by the violence Of the echoes of anguish breaking through the stone Veil of isolated whispers for which all man must atone
They say the future belongs to those who who have dreams That are filled with beauty bursting in their seams Women must learn they are never inferior without consent And that their femininity offers the world rare talent
It is a talented balance of nurture and ambition Like a tree stretching skyward without inhibition Each woman a well of courage feeling limitless Like wings That have soared into a sky that is endless
The threads of sisterhood carry an invisible load This is the tapestry stitched by the shadowed road The fevered lunacy jewels of the hungry hallucination That lead women forward until they have conquered sensation
Feeling each other's hands linked across all of time There is a unity and solidarity that is sublime The mystic river carves it's untroubled tapestry Until the glass ceilings rain their shards of mastery
Every father knows that the fight for equality today Will become the echoes and reflections of tomorrow I think of this holiday I hadn't known of in any way And try to be part of the solution to ease the sorrow
In the eyes of two daughters who are always in my heart It is necessary for them to know their worth from the start And like stars sharing the sky they must help each other glow That their chorus of voices have the power to reap what they sow
(c) March 8, 2025 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide” – Tecumseh
“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor’s rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.” – Carl Schurz
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
