Tag Archives: Escape

First Principles: You Cannot Escape the Responsibility of Tomorrow By Evading It Today

Posted on July 2, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

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Silently Feeling

Posted on February 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Silently Feelingby Michael Doyle In this world that shifts and shattersMiracles happen most when they don’t matterIt feels a bit like cosmic confusionBut it’s really just a humbling illusionAll these thoughts of constant intrusionCome in layers of complex conclusionsEven these … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Always, Beautiful, Better Places, Bleed, Body, Breaking Hard, Complex Conclusions, Constant Intrusion, Cosmic Confusion, Dead, Edge, Embrace, Escape, Fake, Feel, Four Leaf Clover, Good Sign, Hate, Humbling Illusion, Kiss, Layer, Lose Control, Loss, Lost, Love, Makers, Matter, Miracles, Missed, Moments, Need, Nightscape, Ocean Shore, Our Own Days, Our Own Way, Over, Play, Poetry and Poems, Pseudo-Messiah, Push On, Redefine, Said, Separate, Shatter, Shift, Silently Fading, Silently Feeling, Soul, Sustain, Takes the Place, Thoughts, Trick of the Tale, Wait, Want, Way, Wonderful, World | Leave a comment

Time Keeps Moving On

Posted on December 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Time Keeps Moving Onby Michael DoyleAll these things I meant to doThe greatest being loving youIt seems I made the plans rightBut they escape into another nightAll these days, they seem to goMoving faster than my own flowI always mean … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All My Years, Another Night, Best, Best of Me, Broken Life, Burnt-Out Memory, Clinging On, Count On, Creeping Up On Me, Crushed, Days, Depend On, Dream, Escape, Eternity, Flow, Forgot, Get This Right, Go, Gone, Hand, Happens, Heavy Sight, Hold On tTight, Holding On, Hopes, List, Living On Trust, Loving You, Meant To Do, Million Other times, Moving Faster, Moving On, Need, New Year's Eve, Plans, Plants, Poetry and Poems, Recognize, Rocky Shore, Time, Tomorrow, Truth, Two Sides, Understand, Want To Be, Waves, Whispering Regret, Wife, Win This Time, Wished For Me, World's Crust, Worlds Collide, Wounded Ears, Write Out, Year After Year, Yesterdays Gone, Your Beautiful Eyes | Leave a comment

Demons, When They’re Not Concealed

Posted on October 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Demons, When They’re Not Concealedby Michael DoyleCreatures of the night, they dareTo truly live; knowing life is rareHaving taken enough of it to knowThey are here to enjoy death’s showIt’s important to know saints have a pastAnd every sinner has … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Approach, Bar, Beautiful, Concealed, Conformity, Conversation, Creatures of the Night, Death's Show, Demon, Drunkard, Enormity, Escape, Exist, Experience, Goodbye To Romance, Gutter, Heartbreaks, Hesitation, Intoxication, Knnow, Life, Mistakes, Nothing, Past, Persist, Poetry and Poems, Potential, Pretentious, Question, Rrevealed, Saints, Score, Sinner, Something, Sorrow, Stars, Straw, Talking Heads, Time, Tomorrow, Unimaginative, Wonderful, Words, Wrongs, Yesterday | Leave a comment

Fiery Cinders

Posted on September 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Fiery Cindersby Michael DoyleHourglass sands spell tales of brutalityWhispering that most pirates keep their humanityThat is until they can only no longer see fitWhich mostly comes down to the matter of profitIn these moments, and when it’s a Hell of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Bravado, Brutality, Captain, cinder, Dead Men, Die, Escape, Fiery Cinders, Fit, Hell, Hourglass Sands, Humanity, Jolly Rogers, Last Man, Less-Than-Clever, Loose Lips, Moments, Never, Pirates, Plan, Plundering Pirates, Poetry and Poems, Prize, Profit, Sea, Strictly Logic, Survive, Tale, Tales, Watch Change, Whisper, Witnessing Eyes | Leave a comment

A Reach and Twitch

Posted on July 9, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Reach and Twitchby Michael DoyleA hand reaches out and twitchesHeld out toward the unseen switchesAs a life comes and then is goneAs easy as a light turned off and onWe come into this life cryingScreaming out for more and … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alive, Arms of God, Attention, Balloon, Blame, Call, Control, Corner Boys, Crash and Burned, Crawl, Crying, Death, Desire, Die, Different, Dollar, End of Night, Escape, Fall, Fantasy, Fatalstically, Fear, Fire, Friend, Gang, Gone, Gun, Hand, Heed, Holler, Jester Crown, Last Prayer, Life, Light, Lost Soul, Loud, Lower East End, Mark, Name, Need, Off and On, On Your Own, Phantasm, Poetry and Poems, Point, Pointed Fingers, Reach, Relationship, Revere, Reverent, Scratch, Scream, Shots Fired, Shuffle, Sinners, Snitch, Soldier, Soul, Stale, Street, Struggle, Switch, Tale, Temptation, The Devil, Truth, Twitch, Whole, World, Worship, Worth of Life, Wreckage | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: We Cannot Seem To Escape the Desire To Feel Productive With Our Time. I’m Not Sure If That’s By Choice or Trauma

Posted on March 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“We cannot seem to escape the desire to feel productive with our time. I’m Not Sure If That’s By Choice or Trauma.” – Jonny Sun

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Choice, Desire, Escape, Feel, Jonny Sun, Productive, Seem, Thought For the Day, Time, Trauma | Leave a comment

Left Behind

Posted on February 22, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Left Behindby Michael DoyleThere is a coziness to all our liesWhispers the darkness in this monster’s eyesThere is peace in settling the scoreVengeance knows the warmth of its pourLike a blended whiskey that burns down slowSo is our lack of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Alienation, Angel, Anger, Awareness, Beginning, Blended Whiskey, Brimstone and Sulfur, Burn, Cause, Consciousness, Cozy, Creation, Cure, Darkness, Death, Descendants, Design, Desire, Dream, Dwell, Equal, Escape, Exist, Eyes, Fight, Fractional Lineage, Fumbles, Future, God's Favor, God's Will, Heaven's Door, Hell, Humanity, Hunger, Imagination, Isolation, Jesus, Know, Lack of Wisdom, Law, Left Behind, Lesser Beings, Lies, Linear Time, Little More, Living God, Lucifer, Misguided Past, Monster, Odds, Pain, Peace, Pentinents, Persist, Perverse, Poetry and Poems, Pour, Pride, Purgatory, Reincarnation, Requisite Saor, Rest, Satan, Score, Self-Created, Selfishness, Sin, Slow, Sorrow, Soul, Spiritual Synapses, Sublime, Subtle, Suffer, Test, Time, Universe, Vengeance, Warmth, Whisper, Win | Leave a comment

Visceral Causes

Posted on April 25, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

The fifth and final of the series based on the science fiction movie, Alien. Visceral Causesby Michael DoyleThe visceral causes bits of reactionConnected to the phobias with distinctionA baby born with a visual screamBirthing the nightmare, where might have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Baby, Birth, Black, Blank Slate, Burn, Cause, Chance, Clouds, Collective Memory, Dance, Darkest Corners, Dedicate, Distinction, Dreams, Escape, Essence, Frequency, Future, Height of Creativity, Hollywood, Human Beings, Inside, Inter-Connection, Learn, Lessons, Linear Direction, Mother, Name, Nightmare, No Limits, Nuance, Pass, Past, Phobia, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Reaction, Reactivity, Reality, Remaining, Sand, Screen, Self-Destruction, Shadow, Shapes, Thoughts, Unknown, Visceral, Visual Scream, Window, World | Leave a comment

To Catch A Falling Star

Posted on June 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

To Catch A Falling Starby Michael DoyleSometimes I feelThis is not my worldI find myself searchingLooking for the doorThat will lead me awayFrom this wrong worldAnd to a place I belongFrom the ashes of yesterdayI feel as if I must … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ashes, Behind, Belong, Blaze, Catch, Counting Stars, Damage Done, Determination, Door, Endless Blessing, Escape, Fade, Falling Star, Feel, Flee, Know, Lead, Night, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Rain Down, Remember, Run, Search, Skies, Suffering, Sunset, Trace, World, Wrong World, Yesterday | Leave a comment