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She Learns To Survive
She Learns To Surviveby Michael DoyleTo her, I’m her fatherAs I watch my daughterWalking alone in the nightShe’s always been my lightBut it wasn’t always this wayShe’s haunted by the dayThese moments hidden insideBehind her fragile prideHe took her innocenceI’ve … Continue reading
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Thought For the Day: True Courage Is Being Afraid, and Going Ahead and Doing Your Job Anyhow, That’s What Courage Is
“True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that’s what courage is.” – Norman Schwarzkopf (An attempt to honor the firefighters fighting the blazes in Los Angeles County, California)
In the Name of the Father and the Son
In the Name of the Father and the Sonby Michael DoyleTrying to hide in the nightWaiting for the morning lightFeeling my soul must atoneI have never felt so all aloneUntil I glanced on God’s faceThen and there, I knew graceA … Continue reading
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In A Less Than Perfect World
In A Less Than Perfect Worldby Michael DoyleI look out into my living roomIt gives me hope instead of gloomTo see my daughters study by preferenceAnd not out of some required deferenceMaybe I did one or two things rightTo be … Continue reading
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To Touch Your Shadow
To Touch Your Shadowby Michael DoyleThrough physical, we find affirmationIn this, we have signaled confirmationWrapped in layers of living securityOur love makes our sense of libertyThese are the rules we agreeably play byFinding our truths by which we’ll stay byWe … Continue reading
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Tagged Affections, Affirmation, Afraid, Agreements, Beating, Best Plans, Break My Heart, Build, Confirmation, Connection, Drink, Eternity, Eyes, Fear, Felt, Freed, Gentle and Light, God, Grow, Hint, Insight, Know, Layers, Lean, Learn To Slow, Liberty, Love, Made, Meant, Move Too Fast, Music, My Heart, Needs, New Start, Ocean of Love, Physical, Play By, Poetry and Poems, Rest, Right Direction, Rule, Security, Signal, Sorrow, Stay By, Stayed, Stretch, Toast the Years, Touch, Touch By Touch, Touch Your Shadow, Truths, Walk, Your Shadow
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First Principles: We Can Easily Forgive A Child Who Is Afraid of the Dark; the Real Tragedy Is When Men Are Afraid of the Light
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
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Tagged Afraid, Child, Dark, Easy, First Principles, Forgive, Light, Men, Plato
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No Cause To Weep
No Cause To Weepby Michael DoyleThere is in life’s turning awayLike that of a new day’s dawningThe sort of thing in a man’s wayOf time spent sipping lemonade under the awningUntil that day, when life simply slips awayAnd the miracle … Continue reading
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No Longer Afraid
No Longer Afraidby Michael DoyleIt’s really not so frightening To see Satan fall like lightningCast down from the Heavens aboveAll in the name of God’s sacred loveLiving life as a personal testimonyThe world sometimes crashes down on meAnd I’ll remain … Continue reading
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