“Don’t be bullied by those seeking to intimidate you with false charges of racism from standing up for your children, for accurate history and for promoting the laudatory goal of seeing and treating people of all races as individuals made in God’s image.” – David Limbaugh
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.” – Thomas Jefferson (1820)
Skandalon
by Michael Doyle
I won't take the bait
Of living this fate
Falling for the offense
Of people speaking through pretense
Triggered into living this trap
Thinking and feeling the rap
Hit after hit comes my way
I see it happening day after day
The pains that are felt
In the touches I am dealt
Cage me to bring me to death
I must defy it with every breath
The trap of offense is Satan's best
I must rise above this fatal test
Like a finger trap of fear and doubt
Try as I might, I just cannot get out
I have got to turn the page
To keep out the bitterness of this cage
The fangs of despair can rip me apart
Letting its venom drip into my heart
Skandalon (Don't take the bait)
Stands alone
There is not better (Escape the fate)
In being bitter
God's plans for my days
Needs a change of ways
Offenses of past need to let go
If God's best truth is going to flow
Listening to the small still voice
I know that how I live is a choice
Patience yields from wisdom
Wisely overlooking offenses for the kingdom
So then, this is the story
Overlooking the slights to one's good glory
Being legendary brings its magnificence
It's a lesson to heed with great significance
Rising above the injustices of skandalon
I learn that I do not stand alone
Stepping over the ugly, sad and the bad
To the best life I have ever had
(c) July 11, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: ‘We the people.’ … Almost all the world’s constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which ‘We the people’ tell the government what it is allowed to do.” – Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”– James Madison (1798)
“There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American Dream.” – Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982)
“It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country.” —Noah Webster (1790)
“The problem for individuals and nations when standards of right and wrong are abandoned is where it leads. Moral anarchy has been one of the contributing factors to the collapse of empires and great nations of the past. Apparently, we think we can escape the judgment of history and the judgment of God by ‘believing whatever our itching ears want to hear’ and doing ‘whatever seems right in our own eyes.’ Those two quotes are from Scripture. Look them up before a court decides they are not inclusive.” – Cal Thomas
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine (1777)
Waters Felt As Wild
by Michael Doyle
Looking to the commons differently
We sip at the waters reverently
With willows and elms along the banks
As a praying man, I stop to give thanks
No matter how much we pollute the waters
Their resilience slips back dreamily
As guilty as the sins on the policeman's blotter
We yearn for the pristine instead of the unseemly
There in the dusk with sunlight dimming
Is the memory of youth spent at the rainforest hole
When I and my friends spent many days swimming
The feeling given was restorative to my soul
The hobbies of yesterday are but today's vanity
As I think back on things of which I let go
Prepubescent idles of adolescent insanity
Too ignorant to think of what was in the undertow
One word from the past and there I am once again
Thinking of days gone by like Camelot's lost lore
When you and I spent days swimming as friends
And I wished against hope that we might have been more
(c) July 8, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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