Outside My Shadow (Happy Birthday Angie At 14) by Michael Doyle
Has it been a life Or some kind of a dream It's hard to believe That you're turning fourteen
14 years ago tomorrow You first opened your eyes Taking away my sorrow And bringing a million surprises
They say you came a bit early But who can really know these things All I know is the joy that you've brought me And the happiness that each day brings
At the joy of being your father And at you and your sister being my daughters I might have been richer but I'll never be poor When you hold my hand, I couldn't ask for more
Here you are standing by my side Growing into quite a young lady All of your ways bringing me pride As they have since you were but a baby
I still remember that day you turned On the ultrasound to my side to say hello And I see your brilliance in all you've learned Blossoming as you from outside my shadow
It's hard to realize you must be your own Instead of always under my overwhelming impression I need to trust in you as you are nearly grown This happy father treasures you and makes concession
That you are growing into the one of life's best Treasured as you are with every beat of my heart And I know your resilience will always pass the test As you have from the very start
I still remember that day you turned On the ultrasound to my side to say hello And I see your brilliance in all you've learned Blossoming as you have from outside my shadow
(c) August 1, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.” – Charles T. Sprading (1871-1959)
We won't keep domestic terrorism blunted By keeping the American mind stunted Despite the folly of the Biden Administration Silencing conservative thought does not help the nation
This unprecedented statist intervention Defies reason and every rational convention The Left's turning one event into a Reichstag fire Is something to be fought against and cannot inspire
The good will of a nation survives despite the choir of voices Among false journalists and pundits who would deny choices Ocasio-Cortez brings her own martialed sense of state Inventing nonexistent threats to keep the People sedate
Officer Sicknick died of sad but natural causes And this truth cannot be heard even when the din pauses It serves only as a promotion of self-serving political fictions That clashes in the cacophony of dishonesty lending to the friction
But not on the basis of the thoughts and words of conservatism Sleeper Biden feigns his tyranny is fighting against terrorism While falsely prescribing a fake account of hatred and bigotry All the while ignoring the well documented facts of video history
This litany ignores ISIS, BLM and the fascists of Antifa as if It is somehow unnecessary to find the causes and the shift And as a pointed fingers that seek only to inaccurately blame Regardless of truth and as if some sort of twisted game
While engaged in a guerilla campaign of shapeless death Against the law abiding and our officers, taking last breath While ravaging American citizens and destroying property As if, to the American People, it isn't very clear to see
That the egging on of Kamala Harris is all in it's un-glory And is cast aside as impermissible to the Left's strategic story It's there in its padded account of a existential domestic threat That rests on Lies not truth and is what's germane, and you can bet
Mere facts fail to hold sway to paid liars in their indifference While mouthed words are what hold the only point of reference And while the only matter mouthed aloud is that of white rage It is an oblique preference in avoiding the print of history's page
The Left has weaponized the full force of the American government Against the American people with and to its fullest extent This un-grand testimony is a toll of crass political warfare That is like the Patriot Act on steroids lacking even styled flair
As a blank check to indiscriminately hound and indoctrinate Until it bends the will of the People to the almighty state In an attempt to overrun all against the sadistic mono-party And refuses to bend knee to an enforced racial hierarchy
The Biden Administration aims its electric eye at me and you In its naked aggression, asserting power over what's true When and where simple dissent is painted as somehow terrorism We find the Left's sense of American state has turned into fascism
This tyrannical overreach denies free thought and its speech For half of the country as this Trojan horse forces its breech Advances of AI and all of web of massive digital technology Should not be forces to cancel out the rest of American history
Going unquietly this free nation hopes this overreaction will relent And this current administration that will have none of dissent It has instead asserted its racist anti-racism as its solemn screed Inclined as it is toward the destruction of every American creed
There is a grievous wrong when federal government seeks to be all It is as if not a single principle is worth the Left's recall As federal police on every level have become aptly enlisted Against every element of liberty that has yet persisted
It's an Orwellian scheme of taking from every crisis, opportunity To pull down statues and with this swiped attempt to rewrite history Striking at the hearts, minds and souls of individuals and family All in the abominable desire to recreate history and country
With our backs pushed hard against the walls of Alinsky's Hell We must push forward; perish or maybe we yet can prevail Our country stands for ideals of freedom and of lasting liberty Freely thought and spoken, or, we shall perish from all of history
(c) July 31, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“Readers may be amazed that we have to continue to expand Medicare, Medicaid, ‘Obamacare’ subsidies and the like because 12 years ago, we were told that the trillion-dollar Affordable Care Act was going to provide universal coverage for everyone. But we keep spending hundreds of billions of tax dollars, and all we hear is how many millions of people continue to lack health care coverage. Maybe that is because all the money the authorities spend on health care makes the whole system way more expensive.” – Stephen Moore
Does anyone recall people like myself stating very clearly that the alleged universal healthcare of the Affordable Care Act was simply a ruse and would not work? Here we are 12 years later and the Democrats insist it’s not working and therefore government should grow again. What’s that adage about fooling once is the shame of the person running the con and if others are fooled again, it’s shame on them? We in America are living it.
“To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.” – Thomas Jefferson
Singled out across the nation Tripped up in social isolation Attempts at conversation and vulnerability Seem at times to be beyond our capability
Curtness played out with damages done Meanness rounded before niceness begun Seeking each other in loneliness we've seen Only confirms that people can be mean
CQ calls sent out to be wished upon strangers Though each of us are alerted to the dangers We try to receive but instead push away Hoping maybe tomorrow will bring its better day
With lights turned down perhaps too low Neon flashes thrill with their empty glow Lost up in the crystalline banality of a stranger's mind It becomes harder to dream of what we might find
Loneliness leads only to more loneliness And all the world seems to be turned amiss Arming ourselves into extreme separation We fall into the blurred disgrace of a lonely nation
(c) July 29, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
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
