I read the headlines to my great consternation That Newsome and others would change our constitution The thoughts of over my dead body come to mind It's time we leave such foolish thoughts behind
It's not enough to simply win these elections But we must help head America in the right direction Presently, there is a great need for course correction That wouldn't escape a blind man's detection
Some of us are Christians, conservatives, and then republican And as such we seek the policies right for all Americans Big government and big business have locked arms in the attack Taking our freedoms away to the point they won't come back
Liberal policies are a disaster for the course of this nation The extent of this disaster almost defies rational explanation While our borders are almost nonexistent and energy is a crisis That is manmade, while Bidenomics has inflated all prices
While our nation's strength has been weakened and even broken To the crying point of shame that leaves enemies outspoken This is a time when our students need the best of education And instead receive a blanketing, grievous indoctrination
Unvarnished truth can be seen plainly through the nation Where the pain felt by the People is openly seen for inspection Our freedoms and our way of life are held at knifepoint By spurious election procedures by those who self-anoint
Holding themselves out as somehow the elite over the masses While they burn our cities down into a pile of ashes Smoldering under policies that work less than might be desired It's as if this is their hope like haters of America inspired
And we the People know that it is up to us to push back strong To strive for the right rather than be saddled with the wrong God's timing comes day to the day after each election day When we must set in motion the path back to the American way
Returning our nation to the first principles of the founding And finding America persistent and patiently rebounding It was these sets of ideals that set America's prosperity And it is for our children we must fight for this legacy
America's heritage of freedom works if we will only let it These are not just words but truth and we must not forget it Everyday under the tyranny of Biden provides us with evidence That, indeed, the fight for ideas and ideals have consequence
The Bible teaches that where vision is missing, people perish Understanding this key underlies the America that I cherish The path ahead needs it vision to be one of open articulation If we are to strive forward for the good of our freeborn nation
This vision must always be grounded in our highest set of ideals If we are to make our best efforts fruitful and faithfully real Now more than ever we must decide who it is we are and will be And then approach these values with compassion and quite ably
With this in mind we can find our way to much needed liberty Bringing together the best virtues held within our integrity These are the questions that lead us to fight for this victory Grounded with determination and quiet, steady, dignity
(c) September 16, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.”– Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
“No man can study the movement of modern civilization from an impartial standpoint and not realize that Christianity, and the spread of Christianity, are the basis of hope of modern civilization in the growth of popular self government.” – William H. Taft(The only president to also have served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)
“Prolonged study of the English language leaves me with a conviction that nearly all the linguistic tendencies of the present day have been displayed in earlier centuries, and it is self-evident that the language has not bled to death through change. Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.” – Robert W. Burchfield, lexicographer (1923-2004)
It seems that from out of nowhere subtle There's an argument that has no rebuttal That all of my desire for the highest risk Has passed my logic by walking tall and brisk
My life had always been fairly straight and narrrow But there it is, plainer than all the shadows The archetypes crawled across from Greek mythology To find their way into what passes for psychology
And something screams from the collective dreams That are tied together in the universe's seams It might be seen as the things parenthetical That the experts pass off as somehow analytical
There it is, as I look in the mirror, revealed to see That Cronus has taken my place, as I can clearly see I have lived a life that could be described as provisional Coveting freedom, however, it might seem as conditional
Like Peter Pan, I find restrictions somewhat intolerable Time's passages are, at times, simply insufferable The descent, the search, the ascent of Eleusinian mysteries Were in this life of my Iacchus, merely personal history
The shadow of the puer is Hook, who urges Peter to mature It is that thing of how life happens as we nurture The finer points of maturity which exceed the divine child Who only wishes to play and find joy in everything wild
In this, we find the Metamorphoses serve for moral reflection That might otherwise evade the passerby's casual detection Finely worked as they are into the tales that we oft repeat In the divine comedy we live too often as our life completes
Peter and Wendy are the classic tale of a doomed relationship One narcissistically seeks only freedom and cannot come to grip With the things of commitment that bring about stability Wendy needs more than fleeting affection for life's acceptability
It's now or Neverland, filled with childlike wonder and naivety Such are the paths of modern life in all of its great complexity Euphoric experiences seek pleasure to put aside and to forget All those grown up things that lead to heartstrings and regret
Once upon a time is more than for fairy tales in their expression The hurt that binds is the hurt that too often leads to depression Maybe what Peter sought was to avoid his emotional disintegration That came from being a lost boy, alone with his deep desperation?
Nurture that inner child that we might each escape the empty shell But do not stagnate in blocking development like a personal Hell All of us have known some degree of bullying producing its trauma There are difficult passages but what's life without its drama?
(c) September 14, 2023 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.” – George Washington (1789)
“The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.” – Sydney J. Harris
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H. L. Mencken
“The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves.” – George Washington (1774)
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
Thought For the Day: Without Justice Being Freely, Fully, and Impartially Administered, Neither Our Persons, Nor Our Rights, Not Our Property, Can Be Protected
“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.”– Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833