Banging on the walls of our spaces Checking the layout of our places Popping the bottle of our cheer We'll find our way to make our there
The there of our shared creature comfort Learning how we'll fit and comport Spinning around with heads in the clouds We'll fit our traces and do each other proud
Until you, my life flashed on by With me hoping to find one true love I'd explain our lives with my sigh Until you became what I was thinking of
Moving forward without precision But knowing that you are my vision We'll move your woman's touch together As we blend our dreams into forever
Added splashes come together just right Simple words touch life with their light As we look forward to our days ahead Our memories are built by things done and said
Until you, my life flashed on by With me hoping to find my true love A lot of life can be explained with a sigh Suddenly, you became what I was thinking of
As we move into real life's paces We find peace in each other's spaces Learning to refine our graces We'll live the love of our embraces
Home is felt as we continue to grow Coming together into all we'll know Filling our dreams one step at a time We're getting our shine on so sublime
Until you, my life flashed on by With me hoping there was a one true love I could explain life away with a sigh Until you were all I was thinking of
(c) July 3, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The great desiderata are a free representation and mutual checks. When these are obtained, all our apprehensions of the extent of powers are unjust and imaginary.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Let me share a secret That's hard to forget They say to write what you know This blank page only goes to show
Maybe how little that is And how much I miss In a life that's full motion But often empty of emotions
Who is this "they" who has found My writing crisis disallowed I can't help that I know so little Or that I'm always in the middle
Neither starting nor completely done Neither great nor really anyone I only wish that someone Might tell me how this life is won
I was kicked into this world crying Yet, I swear I'm always trying I look at this world with open eyes All that I realize is that I'm often unwise
The good Lord knows I make a lot of mistakes I have pages of songs about heartbreaks If broken hearts and stubbed toes count I've learned a lot of what this world is about
It's mostly about keeping on keeping on Painting by the number of my days until they're gone Where I can, it's about lending a hand To the next poor soul and trying to understand
They say to write what it is that I know While I box my experiences in the shadow Maybe someday, I'll learn enough to write For now, though, I'm just standing in the light
(c) July 2, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Harsh words are told Sometimes quietly, sometimes bold There are a million ways to live your years But it's best when you free your fears
Ante up to stay in the game Whatever happened or who is to blame Getting yourself together Is the only move to make life better
Hurting yourself is easy enough That's not a bluff But living - living is hard Yet, it remains our best card
There are a lot of troubles to face And you won't always with grace There'll be times you won't be proud Life will at you insistently loud
At times, you'll want to take a pass It will feel like walking on rusted glass Still, you'll need to talk your walk Chin held high without a single balk
Hurting yourself is easy enough That's not a bluff But living - living is hard Yet, it remains our best card
There will be times you walk a desolate mile Uncertain of how you'll ever fake your smile You'll hold your chin up to stay above ground Surprising yourself with what you have found
Loneliness might find you, your only friend But push comes to shove, it won't end That is until you call the joker's bluff It's then you'll find you are quite enough
Hurting yourself is easy enough That's not a bluff But living - living is hard Yet, it remains our best card
We live this thing to our best ability Sometimes pushing ourselves beyond our capability Life is life for all its impartiality We're lucky when we find ourselves to stability
Thanks is given for the grace we're living Keeping our head above water keeps us breathing There's a lot to life that needs forgiving The important thing is that we do keep on living
Hurting yourself is easy enough That's not a bluff But living - living is hard Yet, it remains our best card
(c) July 1, 2024 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
I look around this world with troubles to see And I wonder to myself how then should I be? There are troubles all around - enough to see The need is here everywhere for another way to be
I looked at all religions and into philosophy Until finally believing in the ways of Christianity Not that leaders don't sometimes make mistakes But it's not God's lessons that bring heartaches
It's the ways of man however great the illusion That seems to lead us blindly into our confusion We have thoughts enough in a fanciful profusion But only one path brings us to our absolution
The world's troubles can set a heart to disbelieving But considering the miracles of life, it's in believing That we might set this world in the direction of right We can do our part by keeping the Beatitudes in sight
There is no more comfortable home that finds me Then to think over the guidance of Christian theology When seeking answers to the world's probing questions Turning to the mount's sermon brings no hesitation
But it might just be that it brings a clue or two On how we might be better citizens into clear view Maybe we should think over that sermon's meaning When you and I seek to become better human beings
Head
Our place in the kingdom isn't a place of pride But instead, one of humility worn so as not to hide Thinking of ourselves less and putting others first The poor in spirit lean in to quench their thirst
Living with a sinful nature that leads us to sin We mourn our misdeeds and in repentance seek God again In earnest recognition, we ask our Lord God to forgive To correct our relationship once again to rightly live
Humility, patience, and obedience are steps of meekness These take great strength and are not steps in weakness At times this requires submitting to another's leadership As we meekly adhere in relationship and in God's worship
Heart
An unjust world offers hope as righteousness is ratified Our hunger and thirst come through faith to be satisfied Starting with little things to make the world more right This is the path to walk in our Savior's guiding light
God mercifully extends mercy toward us in loving embrace We are to echo this in our treatment of this human race God hung on Calvary's cross gave mercy to point of death Forgiving smaller transgressions is simple as a breath
Sincere, selfless love for others and God is purely given In obedience to truth by the blood of Christ we are forgiven It is through Christ we are empowered and renewed as we pray It is through His strength that we are purified in this way
Hands
As the children of God we are peacemakers in our communities Seeking peace in all we do with our families and our enemies The shalom that comes only from God is to be sought from all In our walk and talk, in all we do, until the clock hand falls
Antithetical to the world's ways, the godly will be persecuted While simultaneously our cried for peace and mercy are muted Jesus tells us that our righteousness may bring us tribulation But by God's grace these very things bring us our absolution
It is by these ways that we live well in a world that is falling By doing this, we are righteously living our Christian calling These are the blueprint for a just and equitable sense of society Working toward the common good with love forging our legacy
(c) June 30, 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
