As of late,
I have developed a new best friend
It’s my younger self coming
to visit my end
I look in his face,
and I see a new truth
I look in his face,
and I see more than youth
Now more like my father,
I more like his son
The beginning he carries,
from whose ending I run
He tells me he’s followed,
but I never looked back
Always looking beyond,
what my fear could attack
He approaches me close,
but we’re never to touch
The distance between us,
life’s meaning as such
For most of my days
I planned dying alone
But now in his presence,
every memory reshown
He points to my heart,
as his eyes fly within
His vision, my vision
—eternity’s twin
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Ablution
Your love to bathe
in words rephrased
With hearts not young
—or old
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Now Unfelt
Twas once a time you owned my heart,
then Laura stole it back
Through all those years our hearts on fire,
she waited and she sat
She hoped one day our lives would part,
to never meet, as then…
Her voice so soft had cried at night,
“I want you back again”
“You need to promise me this time,
you’ll never leave me cold
“And even if you dally forth,
your Muse I will behold
“To heal you of this tragic drought,
you brought upon yourself
“And give you back the future-past
—whose presence now unfelt”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Once Tomorrow Is Gone
Will eternity have
a yin and a yang
Will the forces that govern
applaud and harangue
Will the blessings have value
if damnation moves on
Will it all even matter
—once tomorrow is gone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Larceny Of Endowment
Borrow from the least,
but steal from the best
The larceny of endowment
—your legacy’s quest
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Reality\'s Hymn
Be-bop, shu-baby-bop,
the blues on fire
The strings an accelerant,
the harp but a pyre
The melody unseen,
its heartbeat within
Be-bop, shu-baby-bop
—reality’s hymn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Freedom Dealt
Obeying any moral law,
reason wills unto itself
To play the game the way its staged
—all freedom thusly dealt
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)