“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” – Alexander Hamilton (1788)
Lessons In Life's Suffering
by Michael Doyle
Spring isn't the same
When love has been lost
Sorrow calls out the name
But refuses to pay the cost
The thing held sacred as folly
Touch the inner workings of the soul
A moment away from devotion
Has the depth of the ocean
Waking each day perchance to see
That God has brought new meaning
Bathed as it is in the dim light of mystery
That hides within each human's being
Tales of Ossian are deeply morose
And yet though romantic are but lies
In need of some truth bent to propose
On fallen knee and clings to forlorn eyes
The decision being made even as it reveals
All of the matters of finality have been shown
Taking care of each of the smallest details
The click-bang of matchlock pistols makes mortality known
Mother Mary is all of your infinite femininity
What might you be able to teach me of divinity
Can you but save the best bits of my perishing soul
Wrecked and weak as it is lost without control
Young lovers' serious passions make us all we feel
Yet, it is time as tyrant that chooses to reveal
That when it seems circumstances cannot get any worse
The poet's pen puts some small hope to scribbled verse
(c) May 19, 2021 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
“[The Bill of Rights] establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.” – Albert Gallatin (1789)
“Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The right of freely examining public characters and measures … has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.” – James Madison (1798)
“Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.” – Ronald Reagan
Perspective Revisited by Michael Doyle Float to the top Or sink to the bottom The rest is just churn This is a lesson in life One that is usually earned It's our decision in how we learn Everyone dreams, big and wide Of being the other's hero But, no one really saves anyone These are the secrets that we hide Pretending to be more than zero Foot in front of foot until we're done From on top of the mountain, it's all down Gazing through a clouded view It changes a man's perspective Not longer concerned with hat or crown But focused on what he must do It's times like these, we are most reflective (c) May 17, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.” Thomas Paine, in Common Sense
“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.” – Alan Kay, computer scientist (b. 17 May 1940)
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” – Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)
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