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Some Times We Can Wait No Longer
Some Times We Can Wait No Longer
by Michael Doyle
Socrates and Jesus took their last breaths
As each of these were put to their deaths
Accused and tried for treason and blasphemy
And in corrupting the young by truth's divinity
The noble search and allegiance to the truth
Are unsettling in bringing trouble so uncouth
Libraries are to said to have burned for less
The emperors of this world will not allow second guess
It's a wicked consolation, this philosophy
Pi and Theta are tattered in their misery
Chained to the walls and slandered unfair
While the laughter of the unwise is beyond compare
Things of loss find their commiseration
As fate gives and takes without explanation
Fame and fortune are gifts of something
Often beyond our control and meaning nothing
We are born into this world with the same nothing
Nothing more or less; happiness is that one thing
That rests on a decent philosophy well understood
And from this derives all that is holy and good
Hatred of others is the only real form of harm
And it comes from allowing life to lose its charm
Evil can never come from good that we venerate
The beauty and justice of life is given to appreciate
Those with evil intent are our God's instruments
However, harsh and wrong, as history documents
What is left is that Providence that is enduring
All else is the shackled will that life is curing
Fate is the instrument by which God works His will
Our freedom is in how we choose to respond as life reveals
Returning good for the evil done, we live in trust
Faithful to His sermons as we know that we must
The freedoms of our mind and love are without complication
And are those things that live on with great consolation
In a literature that comes from the imprisoned divine comedy
Breathing the freed thoughts and love sung in rhapsody
Just ask Martin Luther King in his overcoming segregation
About the power of belief and humanity's abiding dedication
A world that cost his very loss and gained victory through love
An outside agitator for truth and led by Heaven's call above
...Some times we can wait no longer....
(c) October 12, 2020 Michael Doyle
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Thought for the Day: Let’s Make A Weeping Child Laugh
“The mosque is too far from home, so let’s do this / Let’s make a weeping child laugh.” -Nida Fazli, poet (12 Oct 1938-2016)
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Tagged Child, Home, Laugh, Let's Do This, Mosque, Nida Fazli, Thought For the Day, Too Far, Weep
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First Principles: One Single Object…Will Merit the Endless Gratitude of Society: That of Restraining the Judges From Usurping Legislation
“One single object … [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.” – Thomas Jefferson (1825)
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First Principles: The Judiciary, From the Nature of Its Functions, Will Always Be the Least Dangerous To the Political Rights of the Constitution
“Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist Paper No. 78
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Thought for the Day: Will the People Ever Be Wise Enough To Refuse To Follow Bad Leaders Or To Take Away the Freedom of Other People?
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people? -Eleanor Roosevelt, diplomat, author, and lecturer (11 Oct 1884-1962)
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Thought For the Day: Whenever Government Assumes To Deliver Us From the Trouble of Thinking For Ourselves, the Only Consequence It Produces Are Those of Torpor and Imbecility
“Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.” -William Godwin (1756-1836)
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First Principles: However Weak Our Country May Be, I Hope We Shall Never Sacrifice Our Liberties
“However weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.” -Alexander Hamilton (1790)
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An Intellectual Conversation
An Intellectual Conversation
by Michael Doyle
I asked you to speak your beautiful mind
Unsuspecting of all the wonders I might find
But knowing that I would love just to talk
Who knew that talk would grow into our walk
I asked you to kiss me to just to taste your lips
Not knowing my hands would find your hips
Nor, that I would always want to keep you near
Or that I would love the words I would hear
I looked into the depths of your amazing eyes
Without a thought of how captivating a surprise
Awaited me as you looked back with sweet love
It seems preordained as if from the Lord above
You took my hand and told me the things you say
We turned to dance as our bodies began to sway
Not really hearing the music that the band played
Yesterday turned into tomorrow as you stayed
And suddenly I have met a brilliant conversation
That has developed into my deepest inspiration
I don't need any deep-set, ill defined explanation
I just need you and me to be our final destination
(c) October 8, 2020 Michael Doyle
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First Principles: The Constitution…Meant That Its Coordinate Branches Should Be Checks On Each Other
“The Constitution … meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.” – Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Abigail Adams
