“Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.” –Oliver Ellsworth, A Landholder, No. III, 1787
“If someone behaves negatively towards you, it helps to remember that he or she is a human being like you and to distinguish between an action and the person who does it. If counter measures are needed to prevent someone doing harm, it’s always better to do it with a calm rather than an agitated mind. If you act out of anger, the best part of your brain fails to function. Remember, compassion is not a sign of weakness.” – Dalai Lama
With A Kiss To the Heart
by Michael Doyle
With a kiss to the heart
My love woke with a start
Thinking on the words said
And waking parts thought dead
Speaking 'til early morn
My soul became a smile worn
Until it reaches my face
Finding what it could not replace
Or had at least thought not
And then again, simply forgot
Was that when you pull away
I find the words I should say
Have waited to long to form
And your passion needs a rewarm
From a now cold cup of coffee
That had waited on me patiently
Now as the days slip quietly by
I hope for a closer hello as I try
To become the man you might dream on
Hopeful that you'll never be gone
On my way to heaven, I slipped my halo
It's there in life's ebb and flow
That I get confused and feel lost
Wondering if my love pays the cost
And knowing that it's for you I pray
The prayers that I hope will always stay
And that you won't look away for too long
As I sit here composing my life's song
(c) August 20, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.” – Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (1817-1862)
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to appellation.” – George Washington
“To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Federal Farmer (1787)
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow / Who would search for pearls must dive below.” -John Dryden, poet and dramatist (19 Aug 1631-1700)
The Problem With Social Justice
by Michael Doyle
Look at this street full of fools
Who believe that they are heaven sent
They act just like a bunch of tools
Yelling at others that they need to repent
Each thinking themselves true activists
Urging the rest of the world to repent
They don't realize they're only reactivists
Who could do more with time better spent
Such false gods do not create real equity
This requires tolerance and patience
This is the stuff of freedom and liberty
Not hellish hounds forcing others to repent
Fire and brimstone language defy the odds
Isn't it salient to declare apostasy
When political idols have become as gods
Active hate does not blend toward community
We don't need this coddling of heart and mind
Nor is it useful to promote this sort of mindset
These outbreaks of collective effervescence find
Themselves forgetting lessons not meant to forget
We have become unchallenged creatures of habit
Categorized by algorithms and echoed in catechism
This then is not the ways of true freedom, dagnabbit
Differences in opinion are fine as ways of expression
This is not a battle of good versus evil taking sides
Whispers the wise observer watching battle lines form
There is merit to be found in what each soul confides
And active listening was something we sought as norm
Now in echo chambers that countenance no difference
Politics for the masses has become its amphetamines
The church of social justice knows little of reverence
Preferring its truth told in spiteful flares of memes
There is no grand insight in playing toward shame
There is not gain or right in excluding each other
Life is meant to played gentle and kept in frame
Not in bashing or in crushing the souls of one another
There is little that is sacred in these priestly classes
Where hate is preached for thinking things differently
When younger I fought for a better world not ashes
All life is still sacred and should be held reverently
And while the internet purposefully excludes dissent
Suppressing different views as a matter of choice
If you ask me this is something hell bent
When people live to silence different voices
(c) August 18, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to ‘the common good,’ but by the productive genius of free men.” – Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
“A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
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