Behind walls, guns, and men We knew our protection As a conspiracy of pirates knows sin In a violent world lived with instigation
Good souls should not live on this beach Under these kinds of circumstances Imperiled as Bermuda falls to the breach And is lost with a toss of dice chances
Felt in whispered rumors under fire light We dance the sacred darkness of the night And in its shadows are held the questions Pointing to those who kill without hesitation
We will take the risks and withstand the dangers Here in this company of stranded strangers To make such wrongs as we can turn to right With a blind eye nearly returned to the captain's sight
It is a time when those who come to pretend That one day they might just become friends Know that the ideas of an ordered world falls apart As a yoke of shame destroys the best of hearts
Brought to ruin as pirates on the open bay Live in a world where even the righteous go astray This is the pirates' world above all the forsaken And all we hold sacred dangles as if shaken
Shaken to the root of the stinking core Where a pirate howls and gives all for more Dangling morals as if waiting for a soul's suicide While desperation holds on for its final ride
This is the reason for which a pirate crew is signed To hold fast and it is further agreed as if designed They've joined ready for death and freedom's fight As they lay down to die in the dream of every pirate's night
(c) August 14, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth new Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.” – George Washington (1777)
We go much better together than apart We feel as if we're one in our hearts Giving our all and living the present Always ready to give our 100 percent
I've leaned on the Lord to do this Though I admit that I love your kiss This love surpasses my understanding Flowing so freely and never demanding
Sometimes this roller coaster of love Has rocked as if somehow from above We love each other, whatever comes our way As we step closer to our wedding day
In each other's arms, we hold on tight We'll live it always through all to alright It feels like our song we're born to sing We've got each other in this love we bring
We love each other in very little bit It's just so real in the way we fit I never thought I had what it took to love Now it's as if I am guided from above
Sometimes this roller coaster of love Has rocked as if somehow from above We love each other, whatever comes our way As we step closer to our wedding day
We love each other to the ends of never Connected as we are until we reach forever I'll roll with you until the end of the ride As I look at you and know that you're my bride
On track with my brand and completing my style You are the magic sparking in my smiles You help me be the man that I need to be As I look at you, my bride-to-be
Sometimes this roller coaster of love Has rocked as if somehow from above We love each other, whatever comes our way As we step closer to our wedding day
Tell me that you feel the same As I stand here to give you my name I need you to be my best tomorrow And to love me in happiness and sorrow
We've come together to build our dreams Two-in-one we have become our own team I feel good as we join to turn life's page In keeping this real, we enter our new age
Sometimes this roller coaster of love Has rocked as if somehow from above We love each other, whatever comes our way As we step closer to our wedding day
(c) August 13, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The Supreme Ethical Rule: Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself.” – Felix Adler, professor, lecturer, and reformer (13 Aug 1851-1933)
“The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms and false reasonings is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator to the whole human race, and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice.” – Alexander Hamilton (1775)
Furthering Conformance To the Cross by Michael Doyle
With an amazing sense of unearned grace The foot of the Cross can be embraced An essence of sin drives our theology As we acknowledge the truth of you and me
Conforming ourselves to the Bible's mirror It's a self-examination of our life's errors Starting there to first openly embrace The steps necessary to reach our better place
We live in the midst of shifting communication That challenges our necessity for relations There in the getting from here to the there Of life that brings us to love past our fears
We have passed through phases of modernization In our becoming this ill-defined post-modernist nation This has led to the smallness of inert globalization To a time of history ripened for pluralization
Serving ourselves to the mindless buffet of gluttony With hard thought on what's good for you and me It is a spiritual moment of vapid malnutrition It too often leads to the abandonment of attrition
That has formed across our nation into a secularization That embraces the abuses of Godlessness across our nation Edging God out through our out-of-control egos We come to a dark momentum recklessly into the unknown
In Ephesians, we are told of a community of Gentiles and Jew This can be seen as representative of me and you As we come together and are made spiritually anew We, believers, need unity in all Godly things that we do
God's Word anchors our Christian sense of society Through grace and peace, calmness heals anxiety As we live every single day in grace and are set free We lived blessed lives through our Father's spirituality
We are to strive to live holy without blemished blame Doing these things for good and in our Father's name Holy hours lived by each of us having the capacity for good If we'd exceed our brokenness and rise up, understood
As we walk our separate path in God's love and light Finding our way through the darkness of Satan's night Forgiven of our trespasses through His good will It becomes a matter of fact, not a matter of how we feel
We need to lavish grace toward all in all we do Across this world lived in daily by me and you The first and the last are necessary for completion Of the tasks of God's love set out as the world's foundation
God's salvation is available to al for all eternity Freely given by grace despite our states of perplexity As long as we keep our eyes focused on the cross We have everything to gain and none of the world's loss
This is how we walk in our best hope and reverence Guided through every season by divine providence So many people spend life mired in the madness Of unnecessary arguments that can only bring sadness
The spirit of God is the hope given in revelation Believe only in the risen Son to reach our destination Of Heaven given to us all by divine proclamation This then is the only wise course for our foundation
We surrender ourselves to God's promises to survive And as we surrender our pretenses, we can thrive There are lines that cannot and must not be crossed If our hope for society will not be lost
(c) August 11, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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
