“This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. … As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of our actions.” -James Mill, philosopher (6 Apr 1773-1836)
The Sphinx of Legacy
by Michael Doyle
In the mystery of the sphinx
Is the ancient mystery that links
To secret rooms of love and wisdom
It brings release like keys to the kingdom
Some are kept prisoner by this lure
While others believe this is the cure
In the end, it seems that we all die
The way to glory is just another long goodbye
In the mirror, we look into our face
If we're lucky, we've aged with grace
Visitors come and go, easy as a rhyme
Each of these is merely marking time
Rinse and repeat as we aim to cheat the Devil
Keeping plumb with the square, we keep it level
Until we really cannot tell where we are
No matter how close to home; or if we've wandered far
Hope comes today and then again tomorrow
While with distant shivers, we face our sorrow
Shadows of our selves that we have once been
And yet mere echoes of what is meant as human beings
There is one secret we know still yet remains true
We each stay alive as long as the last person remembers you
Drifting along free flowing as coded memory
And in the end, this is the sphinx of lasting legacy
Death watches over us, gazing face to face
While we, like goldfish in a bowl, pray for grace
In the crumbs of dreams that aged all too well
There's room enough in that for yet another tale
When we push to the depths in the cores of our heads
More is the pity that some are better off dead
Despite how we try to be ever more the clever
None of us are meant to live on forever
We play the game all the way to the bone
Until we each are buried under tombstone
Though some would have fought to sit on throne
In the end, we leave as we arrived, each alone
Riding hard into the flames of the last sunset
To meet who it is that we have not yet met
Unscathed as it were without a single lasting regret
We lived to play with fire and we will each burn yet
(c) April 5, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“Knowledge Will Forever Govern Ignorance and A People Who Mean To Be Their Own Governors Must Arm Themselves With the Power Which Knowledge Gives. ” – James Madison
“High is our calling, Friend! Creative Art / (Whether the instrument of words she use, / Or pencil pregnant with ethereal hues,) / Demands the service of a mind and heart.” -William Wordsworth, poet (1770-1850)
Push Button
by Michael Doyle
Pushed buttons bring us to grief
Frustrations from which we need relief
We have but one Father, one God of creation
Brothers and sisters sharing our one situation
We should then, treat one another
As we are, sisters and brothers
Equally held in fullest regard
Not as a promise to disregard
Born of God, we must speak with love
As each is a member of God's body above
Better to be cheated ourselves than sue
At least that's how it is in godly view
While we are living in full liberty
There are ways not to follow in our sanctuary
Doing wrong in abandoning the Lord
Cuts deeper than being severed by a sword
We must honor our sacred Father's will
For His holiness is solemnly revealed
That our hearts belong to the Father above
In true devotion, living out our Father's love
This is not something , we can fake
But promises we must keep as we make
We might fill the altars with our tears
Yet, God is the witness to our living years
We belong to the God who has brought relationship
So that we might know rightful worship
Keeping our heads on swivel to keep life right
Driving out the darkness by God's cherished light
The right move to make is toward God's direction
Accepting the blessing of God's true correction
Growing our gardens from the world's wasteland
Returning to the forgiveness of following God's command
(c) April 4, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“We have but a slender hold of our virtues; they ought, therefore, to be cherished with care, and practised with diligence.” – Fisher Ames
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” -Maya Angelou, poet (4 Apr 1928-2014)
In the Face of Your Holiness
by Michael Doyle
In the face of your holiness
I acknowledge my sin
Knowing your faithfulness and depending on this
Rolling like a stone from tomb again
All of my burdens, you carry
In the reliance that you will not vary
In accepting my contrition
Despite the seriousness of my condition
When my soul needed a friend
I found on your love, I could always depend
Dropped balls and bad jokes come with a price
But it'd be better still to follow Godly advice
The heart is what matters most
And must be kept pure by heavenly host
Keeping out the sins we cannot mask
Leaked out across the generations taken to task
How can we walk instead in the ways of love
Keeping the commands of our God up above
We must keep in light and in fullest devotion
Kept in faith and in truest emotion
(c) April 3, 2022 Michael Doyle
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer…” – Thomas Paine
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving, writer (3 Apr 1783-1859)
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