“Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives, not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as upon those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit, which has, at all times, characterized political parties.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
With the Heart of A Lion
by Michael Doyle
With the heart of a lion
It's past the fire well
That we rise
With nowhere to hide
The hourglass and the landslide
Creep up find us cryin'
In a second crusade of hope
We cling at the end of the rope
Hanging in a silent arc
As we shift ourselves out of park
Just because we don't want to be left behind
As we lay down our arms and find
The 10 best seconds of cascades
Are felt in the chorus that fades
Fading into waves of extinction
Unparalleled in their distinctions
Felt like a death wish for the good 'ol days
In a last crusade filled with a thousand wrong ways
(c) March 28, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” – George Washington
The End of Everything
by Michael Doyle
Beware of a woman's scorn
And the wrath that follows
You'll find more than halo torn
When descending into those hollows
Crippling revenge bring no justice
Euripides puts tragedy into practice
Finding that stronger than a lover's love
There are wounds incurable even by Heaven above
These are found in a lover's hate
That comes like a jagged twist of fate
Incurable as the wounds this makes
This takes a price, no mortal can fake
Talk this sense and be called foolish
Jason learned this as his quests were fruitless
Hate's bottomless cup continues in its pour
When honeyed words come from evil mind we must endure
Too often love is greater than wisdom
And when that ends it causes a fatal schism
Believing herself wronged, a woman's thoughts turn to blood
Such that gods and children killed sink into mired mud
In child birth, grief soon begins
But its the betrayals of life that does us in
As embittered women seek to shake the universe
A soul convinced it's been bitten may become perverse
No one can stop grief's avalanche as it starts to roll
And neither the gods or man can hope to cajole
All humans shun what death does in its fits bring
For what does it bring but the end to everything
(c) March 27, 2022 Michael Doyle
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Inspired by Euripides’ The Madea
“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.” – George Washington (1793)
Beginning and Ending With the Heart
by Michael Doyle
There are more things
We agree on
Than we disagree on
There are more common grounds
Than causes for pugilistic rounds
If we only address these simply
Catholic or Protestant in Ireland
Two rooms in God's good mansion
That need to learn to better compromise
Each group having so many people
That have been taught only to demand
And so seldom seek to understand
When seen through the eyes of a child
Like the one who once laid in a manger
Have forgotten the ways of mercy mild
Treating near relatives as if strangers
Forgetting the golden rule of compassion
Or at least treating it as if out of fashion
We need to learn loving ways again
Seeking the moments of coming together
Instead of those ways that push us apart
The soldier is the last person to want war
Knowing that there are ways to live better
Each of us beginning and ending with the heart
(c) March 26, 2022 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.” – General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
“War is not the best engine for us to resort to; nature has given us one in our commerce, which if properly managed, will be a better instrument for obliging the interested nations of Europe to treat us with justice.” – Thomas Jefferson (1797)
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