As answers deceive
The questions stand
And dancers leave
To track the sand
Round robin conspiracy
Threatening us all
The letters all lower case
Their finality tall
Butting my head
Inside of the line
“When does it end Father,
Maybe this time”
The black and the white of it
The tall and the short
The poisons the same
One knife for a fork
New action will free
What inaction restrains
To once again, once again
Once again drain
So back to the future
Back to the past
Choose not your weapon
You’ve had your last laugh
The wind’s in the vestibule
New breath in the hymn
Your darkness reveals
What the light needs to win
With seven unsavory
And eight left to roast
The turkey unstuffed
Leaving room for the ghost
So ride away, ride away
Ride away all
The damage inflicted
This hammer a maul
The blood’s in the alleyway
Life beckons on
Death has been slaughtered
—as begins the new song
(Rosemont Pennsylvania: August, 2014)
Three Thoughts For 11/2/2018
Why
Why is it
When people are
Telling you
That you
Shouldn’t,
You better not,
And don’t…
That you most
Feel like you
Have to,
Need to,
And will
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2014)
Here Not There
Where I am
is where I will always be
Where I will always be
—is where I am
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2014)
Juctim Tamquam Unum
When one man is cut
every man starts to bleed
When one man is healed
—all men become as one
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2014)