On Being Indigenous In the 21st Century by Michael Doyle
In this world of the modern age When most wish to appear a wise sage It is pithy to posture and say In that pseudo-intellectual way
That the indigenous follow Mother Nature's way Though if you were to ask us, we'd likely say That we were the originals marginalized in modern life And that the more is better as we wish little of that strife
All finger pointing likes to place America to blame Forgetting all the empires built in Europe's name But even that is inaccurate as China is the same So, perhaps to blame anything but power corrupted is lame
World War Two's end brought many a new nation Sometimes with little to no valid explanation As the indigenous sought out their sovereignty Sometimes willingly surrendering a bit of dignity
To hold their heads up a little higher With less skill than burning desire To make their own way into this world With their largely symbolic flags unfurled
Many are the peoples distinguished in history Who in this modern world live in poverty There in confrontational extremes of vulnerability Willingly endured in the namesake of diversity
Slash and burn borne of need for cultivation Have brought havoc across Amazonia's nations While tribes form nations as the legacy Seeking mostly after their squalid continuity
Coffee stains the teeth and soul with grit When even 40% of the native tongues are forfeit Losing language that encodes cultural perceptions Thinking and knowing become limited in their definition
It's truly a matter of saving one's community To find one's identity in finding place of family DNA alone cannot give any one needed inclusion But it does set the boundaries of exclusion
(c) August 21, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Power returns with the rise Up there in the sky; see the the blood moon Hell awakens; beginning in her eyes The dragon shall be freed soon
The truest knight knows his duty Having had seen her wrath and her beauty His is only to do the Lord's will The truth you see is sleight of hand he reveals
Warning comes with village bells ringing The trouble is Satan's and he is bringing All the evil necessary to fill a soul And that only a clerical knight might control
The siren's call is hard to resist Though many have tried; few dared persist Time has made this dragon stronger And though silver might weaken, it conquers no longer
(c) August 21, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learned to be perfectly indifferent; but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, and to need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be passive.”– Thomas Jefferson (1804)
Slips of the feeble tongue Come more often when no longer young Things ill thought should often not be said But instead kept inside one's head
Our lives are played out like a movie Sometimes hellbent though that doesn't move me Still at times, we cling to bad decisions That, later still, we hold out in self derision
Copping out to our intended and unintended roles As we roll through a life often out of control Fading in slowly into the opening scene More than often, we do not even know what it means
Doing our best to dig out from the dirt We play out the masquerade now matter how it hurts To get to that place that we are better than we start Even when we feel its make believe from our hearts
By our own devices we cause our own worse harm Living it up fully until life loses its charm Dancing like there will be no tomorrow Will most often end in the clarity of our sorrow
The truths we embrace are often half felt Measured by the hands we are ill dealt But are fed most of all by our wicked desire And our hope that the universe will conspire
This realization brings us to our fragility In realizing our best is less in actuality Bringing life's party to it's premature wrap Seeking like every mouse to avoid the trap
That brings us face to face with our day to day Fully and freely acknowledging there is no better way But to put one awkward foot in front of the other In getting through our next day and then another
(c) August 20, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The Whole People Are the Militia. Whenever Governments Mean To Invade the Rights and Liberties of the People, They Always Attempt To Destroy the Militia.”– Elbridge Gerry
“True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.” – George Aiken
To listen to the DNC the last 2 nights and a portion of today, you would think they could do no evil and that President Trump can do no right. If perhaps you don’t fact check what they say and find out that things are often the opposite of what they say, you’d think maybe so…
Reality Check by Michael Doyle
The Democrats feign prayer in reality check Seemingly forgetting the corpus of their wreck As they keep encouraging their cities to burn As if maybe they've forgotten how it is to learn
The lessons of the past are after all history And that in itself allows a sort of mystery That history is something that they do not cherish Forgetting the vigilance needed so we do not perish
As a country that serves as a city on the hill That was meant by the founders to pursue God's will Instead they judge things by the standards of today While judging the rest of the world another way
Biden and Harris pursue a Kumbaya that could be never As each of these feel themselves to be the one clever And yet the folly of the users is to become losers As they fall under the fatal axe of each side's pursuers
Biden's laurels do not rest at least not on his own history How those who nominate him think he'll escape it is a mystery But here we are ready to hear on tomorrow's date That he's who is needed and that they will nominate
(c) August 19, 2020 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The ultimate authority … resides in the people alone. … The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation … forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any…” – James Madison (1788)
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
