Tag Archives: Pain

Virtue and Disobedience

Posted on October 10, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Virtue and Disobedienceby Michael DoylePainting away your dayAs old records playEach portrait painted with feelingIs nothing less than soul-revealingThat is to say about the painters’ waysNot of the sitter, despite honoring his daysSpending time on crafting the right impressionThis is … Continue reading →

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A Catch of Breath

Posted on October 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

A Catch of Breathby Michael DoyleLet’s admit that we’re born dyingIt’s time to stop our cryingLet these words be quietly spokenIt’s okay to be a little brokenWe’re connected by more than our headsWe have more meaning than our words saidIt … Continue reading →

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First Principles: He Will Wipe Away Every Tear From Their Eyes, and Death Shall Be No More, Neither Shall There Be Mourning, Nor Crying, Nor Pain Anymore, For the Former Things Have Passed Away

Posted on October 6, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” – Revelation 21:4

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Cry, Death, Eyes, First Principles, Former Things, Mourning, No More, Pain, Passed Away, Revelation 21:4, Tear, Wipe Away | Leave a comment

Echo Back

Posted on August 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Echo Backby Michael DoyleMy words echo back into tomorrowA half-life that’s full of sorrowI’m often sorry for what I sayThe demons inside won’t have it any other wayIf these were the last words I saidI wouldn’t want them rolling in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Better Choice, Bones, Construction, Demons Inside, Destroy, Destruction, Echo Back, Family, Father, Feeling, Full of Sorrow, Generational Sinds, Grown, Half-Life, Head, Humbly, Hurt, Ideal, Immeasurable, Imprint, Intrude, Kill You, Last Words, My Brokenness, New Thoughts and Habits, Nobility, Own, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Proof of Life, Raise, Rise Above, Rolling, Rude, Say, Served, Shown, Solitude, Sorry, Sticks and Stones, Strong Regret, The Bible, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Treasurable, Truth of Love, Voice, Wish, Won't Do, Words | Leave a comment

The Painful Reality of Perfectionism

Posted on July 30, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Painful Reality of Perfectionismby Michael DoyleThere is a need to face eventuallyWhether painful or not, the realityThat however much we have optimismThere is no such thing as perfectionismAt least so much as actually be perfectThere is only really the … Continue reading →

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Tough Prayers Silently Spoken

Posted on July 14, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Tough Prayers Silently Spokenby Michael DoyleWe need to keep ourselves humbleHowever, the world may tumbleWe need to be on our knees and prayOur hearts are in gratitude and will stayThis is our best good answerAs we live life’s flow like … Continue reading →

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Rated Pain

Posted on June 24, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Rated Painby Michael DoyleSitting here tonight after the injuryI know that it won’t require surgeryBut all the same, I don’t like the painYet, asking me to rate it feels insaneThe trouble is as I stumbled and talkedIs that the path … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ache, Bad Choice, Bones, Break, Broke, Choices, Complicated, Crumble, Definitive, Experiences, Fall In, Foot, Goal, Human Being, Hydrea, Individual, Infinitive, Injury, Insane, Life's Choices, Limestone, Lucky, Meaning, Measure, Opioids, Pain, Path, Poetry and Poems, Rating, River, Scale, Sedated, Squirrely, Stumble, Surgery, Talk, Tears, Three Weeks, Trouble, Tumble, Voice, Walk | Leave a comment

The Quiet Colors

Posted on June 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Quiet Colorsby Michael DoyleAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeAs the quiet colors Of the midnight hour Starts to come to closeI feel as lonely as the pain insideTortured to my soul, and … Continue reading →

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The Secret Woes of Regret

Posted on May 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

The Secret Woes of Regretby Michael DoyleKept silence about better daysAre still remembered for the better waysWe once so happily lived inBefore the days of blood and drunken sinsWe clean the ship’s hull on the beachTo gain that extra knot … Continue reading →

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Happy Mother’s Day 2024!

Posted on May 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

I wish all the mothers out there the happiest and holiest Mother’s Day! This is your day that God and this nation have set aside to honor all it means to be a mother. Thank you for making that choice! … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged 2024, Certainty, Choice, Deeply Loved, Dream, God, Happy Mother's Day, Honor, Means, Memory, Miss, Pain, Safe, Set Aside, Thank you, This Nation, Thought For that Day, Wonderful, Your Day | Leave a comment