When we believe in something, our only choice is to draw a line and defend everyone and everything behind it.
Phoenix of the Line
Michael J. Merritt
The Deceit of War
When you commit your life to the sea, there is no room for a loss of integrity. If there are holes in your soul, she will consume you. To live your life with honor you must have the courage and the commitment to maintain independent steaming against the battlegroups of deceit that lay just beyond […]
I see not through my eyes, but through my faith.
Committing your life to fight for justice in a fallen world is parallel to looking for light in a void of darkness. Those who follow Christ need not fight for justice here on Earth because we have already been given salvation in heaven. In our darkest times if we have faith in Christ we will […]
Perfection, Flaws, and Corruption
The study of Ethics is a pursuit of understanding the philosophical nature of right and wrong in it’s most perfect form. A society’s justice system is an ever evolving pursuit of that perfection. Corruption is the cultural, political, or personal bias that overrules and interferes with that system.
The Words that Define Who We Are
America is not represented or defined by a flag. America is not represented or defined by a building or monument. America is not represented or defined by a politician or political leader. America is represented by our founding documents and the words that define who we are as a diverse people. We are united by […]
The Crusader’s Sword
To those that carry my name, I stand in your fire. You have only made my faith stronger as I have become the mire. Now I will watch how long it takes before your truth makes you tire. As your entire life is forgotten on a lost pyre. When my children are safe from abuse […]
Healing through Pain
When I wanted to rest in a tomb,You let me bury my pain in your womb. As I hold you by the hair with every thrust,I know you are the only woman that I can trust. Only to you my life I commit,as only for me you kneel and submit. As you satisfy the beast […]
Harvest Moon
There is nothing more sacred than a man who is committed to protecting the woman he loves, and a woman committed to satisfying the beast within him. As his glowing green eyes search the wilderness for her moonlit thighs.She prays to Mani to deliver a protector who can satisfy her deep inside. As she kneels […]
Find Away or Make One
During the Battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864, Admiral Farragut and his forces engaged a Confederate Fleet, land based forts, and a field of mines guarding the entrance to Mobile Bay. With the course ahead filled with peril Admiral Farragut ordered his fleet: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” Admiral David Glasgow Farragut […]
Revolutionary Courage
Without the ethical fabric of right and wrong, justice is nothing more than an evolutionary paradigm created by those with the power to define it. Once that paradigm has falsely defined the wrong person or group, it will be revolutionized.
