ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Hiding From Sins
by Michael Doyle

Across a desert filled with mortality
A lonely creature seeks its immortality
Above the canyon and ridden on the ridge
Death itself holds its own bridge

Questions run vast in seeking reality
Monsters of a kind collide eventually
In an attempt to cross into the new
While holding the old, still in view

Is this destructive battle inevitable
To know beyond pain of what we're capable
Bled to the quickening of our hearts
We'd be a new thing before our life departs

Chased questions take our last breath
On this journey that feels like death
Interests align, that is, until they're not
As legends unfold about things best forgot

With a shed of the peeled thin disguise
Is the truth, opening before our eyes
Fitting isn't it, that in the end
The day will come when death is friend?

There in the valley beyond our lies
Is the journey for that which never dies
Cyborg, robot, or something beyond humanity
What comes next is will be our new reality

New souls formed in the forge of creativity
When control's ambition exceeds old reality
Mankind's undoing is somehow encrypted within
The walls that we form in hiding from our sins

(c) August 17, 2022  Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved

Cohiba Cove Scuba Sim -Forgotten Gate at Kelpfforest

First Principles: It Is Religion and Morality Alone Which Can Establish the Principles Upon Which Freedom Can Securely Stand

“It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.” – John Adams

Thought For the Day: I Speak Two Languages, Body and English

“I speak two languages, Body and English.” – Mae West, actress, playwright, singer, screenwriter, and comedian (17 Aug 1893-1980)

First Principles: If Men Are So Wicked With Religion, What Would They Be Without It?

“If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if without it?” –Benjamin Franklin

Thought For the Day: A Person May Cause Evil To Others Not Only By His Actions But By His Inaction

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)

Thought For the Day: I Seem To Have Loved You In Numberless Forms, Numberless Distance, In Life After Life, In Age After Age, Forever

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless distance, in life after life, in age after age, forever.” – Rabindranath Tagore

First Principles: It Is Error Alone That Needs the Support of Government. Truth Can Stand By Itself.

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)

First Principles: To the Distinguished Character of Patriot, It Should Be Our Highest Glory To Add the More Distinguished Character of Christian

“To the distinguished Character of Patriot, it should be our highest Glory to add the more distinguished Character of Christian. The signal Instances of providential Goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labours with complete Success, demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of Gratitude and Piety to the Supreme Author of all Good.” – George Washington

Thought For the Day: We Can Sing the Truth and Name the Liars…We Must Work To Overturn the False Narrative of Tyrants

“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb… But we are not helpless… We can sing the truth and name the liars… we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.” – Salman Rushdie, writer (b. 1947)

Thought For the Day: To the Extent That the West Is To Blame At All For the Ills of the Third World It Is To the Extent That the West Created Marx and His Successors

“To the extent that the West is to blame at all for the ills of the Third World it is to the extent that the West created Marx and his successors, among whom must be numbered many of those who advised the Third World leaders in post-war years.” – Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

ALOHA PROMISES FOREVER

Hiding From Sins