Tag Archives: Tired

Does It Make You Cry?

Posted on October 16, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Does It Make You Cry?by Michael DoyleWhen you’re tired of laughing,Does it make you cry?This life you’ve been living, It turned out to be a lie.When you’ve given all you can,And your best isn’t good enough,Sometimes it’s hard to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Absurdity, All You Can, Animal, Best, Bloodlust, Bluff, Broken Trust, Cause, Certain, Certainty, Coattials, Criminal, Cry, Good Enough, Hard, Heart, Ice, In Place, Insurgency, Justice, Larceny, Laughing, Lie, Life, Live, Man, March, Own Man, Pause, Poetry and Poems, The World, Tired, Urgency | Leave a comment

Somewhere In Between

Posted on July 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Somewhere In Betweenby Michael DoyleThere in the review mirrorWere the lights of my errorNear the end of the driveFeeling more tired than aliveWas knowledge of my mistakeHitting the accelerator, not the brakeAs I did my best to make it homeAnd … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Abuse, Accelerator, Alive, Alone, Coin Toss, Drive, Error, Excuse, Feeling, Hom, Home Alive, Homeward Bound, In-between, Knowledge, Lights, Miles To Go, Mistake, Nine Hours, Poetry and Poems, Rearview Mirror, Somewhere, Tired, Traffic's Flow, Upper Peninsula | Leave a comment

Stone Cast

Posted on June 26, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Stone Castby Michael DoyleMemory building on this June’s nightYou walk beside under the pale moonlightThat you’re not troubled seems clearBut there’s something to the something thereThese things are important to youLet’s talk about how it is we will doThis life … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Achieved, Arms, Awake, Believed, Blend, Clear, Comfort Levels, Eternity, Faithfulness, Grow, Heart, Heart's Desire, Important, Inner Demons, Joined Hands, June, Know, Life of Ours, Lips, Mean, Memory Building, Moon Shines, Moonlight, My Love, My One, My Person, Night, Once In A Lifetime, Our Love, Poetry and Poems, Promise, Promises Made, Put Aside, Remember, Rise, Share, Shining Eyes, Smile, Something, Stone Cast, Sun, Talk, Talking, Tired, Troubled, True, Unveiled, Walk, Walk Beside, World On Fire, Worst Day, Worthwhile | Leave a comment

First Principles: Those Who Hope In the Lord Will Renew Their Strength. They Will Soar On Wings Like Eagles

Posted on September 24, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

“Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. “ – Isaiah 40:30-31(NIV)

Posted in First Principles | Tagged Eagles, Faint, Fall, First Principles, Hope, Isaiah 40:30-31 (NIV), Lord, Renew, Run, Soar, Srength, Stumble, Tired, Walk, Weary, Wings, Young Men, Youth | Leave a comment

Love Lives On

Posted on July 11, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

Love Lives Onby Michael DoyleDriving around the middle of the nationTrying to stimulate my daughters’ imaginationsAnd love for seeing the beauty of this nationLike their grandmother would have; if the situationHad somehow allowed this to followIf she had thrived; but … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Allow, Anniversary, Artist Eyes, Beauty of this Nation, Blossom, Bolder Dreams, Breath, Compromise, Daughters, Day, Death, Difference, Dreamer, Dreamt, Driving, Excited Eyes, Explore, Falling Tears, Fire, Follow, Food, Garden of Dreams, Grandmother, Happiness, Happy, Her, Home, Imagination, Inside of Me, Journey, Last Breaths, Lists, Lives On, Love, Love Lives On, Meant, Meet, Memories, Met, Middle of the Nation, Miss, More, Movies, Music, My Daughters, My Mom, Open, Pain, Paint, Places, Pleasure, Poetry and Poems, Rains, Regret, Remorse, Retrace the Steps, Reveal, Sad, See, Shadow, Situation, Sleep, Smile, Something More, Soul, Still, Stimulate, Surprise, Tears, Thrive, Tired, Traces, Two Hearts, Want, Watch, West Virginia, Whisper, Wish, World, Years Ago, Young Boy | Leave a comment

A Smile of Death

Posted on July 8, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

A Smile of Deathby Michael DoyleThe morning comes with a “how have you been”That comes a bit too brightly in world gone dimA smile unwelcomed can being its sense of dreadWith the ominous thought that we’ll all soon be deadThe … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Anxiety, Breath, Control, Creativity, Creep, Dead, Death, Delusion, Depravity, Dim, Dread, Dreary, Morning, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Post-Traumatic, Real, Scream, Smile, Soul Weary, Tired, Uncertain, Zen | Leave a comment

Pretender or Contender

Posted on October 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Pretender or Contenderby Michael DoyleDrawing on song lyrics in my dayMakes life special in its own wayThe singer is my daughter, and she’s on fireAs legends are made to grow and conspireA life led in three-part inspirationWe all know the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Appetites, Baptism, Best, Bread, Breakthrough, Capable, Connection, Conspire, Contemplation, Contender, Continuity, Daughter, End, Fire, Friend, Hunger, Immersion, Jesus, Legends, Perspiration, Poetry and Poems, Pretender, Raised Awareness, Regret, Resistance, Satan, Singer, Song Lyrics, Special, Spirit, Stone, Striking Foot, Strong Feeling, Susceptible, Temper, Temptation, Tempter, Test, Three Part Inspiration, Tired, Ultimate Truth | Leave a comment

Love Was There

Posted on July 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Love Was Thereby Michael DoyleAlong the country roads of my youthI learned a few jokes and a lot of truthSinging along with the radio showA lot joy there and it continues to flowSo many smiles built on memoryTimes spent with … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Art, Childhood, Choice, Country Roads, Coy, Crashing Down, Dad Joke, Daughters, Distractions, Doing My Best, Everything, Family, Fight, Follow Their Hearts, Give, Good Cheer, Grow Up, Hope, Jokes, Joy, Kind, Learn, Live, Love, Love Was There, Love Will Be There, Loving, Memories, Memory, Million Songs, Moment, Music, Patient, Poetry and Poems, Pray, Push Through, Radio Show, Roadside Attractions, Sing, Smiles, Stay, Their Way, Times, Tired, Truth, Voice, Wish, Youth | Leave a comment

El Shaddai

Posted on May 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

El Shaddaiby Michael Doyle He is my refuge of my safetyIn how I put my trust in theeKeeping my peace and trustIn He who is always just El Shaddai quietly advancesIn all of life’s circumstancesAll of the world makes us … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Advance, Circumstances, El Shaddai, Fortress, Heavens Above, Holy Words, Inspired, Just, Life, Lord, Need, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Read, Refuge, Sacred Love, Safety, Strength, Tall, Tired, Trust, Walk, We, Wilderness, World | Leave a comment

Until My Eyes Close

Posted on February 25, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

Until My Eyes Closeby Michael DoyleThe other day, I was so tiredIt seemed my life was a tearAnd though the coffee kept me firedMy heart felt troubled and insincereLike I wished that I could find an exitFrom this highway, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Barely Surviving, Burn, Candle, Close, Clouds, Coffee, Crumbles, Death, Driving, Enshrouds, Exit, Eyes, Fire, Fired, Fix It, Head, Heart, Heaviness, Higher, Highway, Hope, Insincere, Keep, Life, Melt Down, Memories, Miracle, Music, My Bones, My Life, Numbing, Other Day, Poetry and Poems, Promises, Pushing Back, Pushing On, Sleep, Tear, Tired, Tiredness, Troubled, Trying So Hard, Wish | Leave a comment