Never let intelligence
Get in the way of good judgment
Never let excuses
Inside your dreams
Never let the refusals
Cancel out the invitations
Never let tomorrow
—destroy today
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)
Dying Embers
The flames rose
as history burned
—and memory settled into ash
The smoke carrying away
all reasons why
—dying embers of the past
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2014)