Locked inside my indecision,
death opened up the door
And let me look inside my fear,
which I hated and abhorred
The view not half as frightening,
as the deception and the lies
And its arms extended toward me,
standing frozen—eyes on mine
My steps then hesitated,
and its threshold wasn’t breached
As I watched the door shut slowly,
todays outcome never reached
But a key was left before me,
to unlock what’s yet to know
Of a still uncertain future
—through the doorway I was shown
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Write It Big
Don’t tell me that your writing’s good,
the words to rise and fall
Tell me that your writing’s big
—and never written small
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
In The Moment
There are no other words
that better describe…
So I rethought the terms,
future and past
Bringing them into my
perpetual present
To feast in the moment
—instead of fast
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
A Timeless Path
Present past and present
future
Holy Trinity with the here
and now
Three states that bind all
known creation
Defining when but never
how
This very instant the past
calls forward
The future answers
from a timeless path
Where all three join and
walk together
To bless this moment
—the one to last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
My Final Hour
With age,
My sword
Is deeply scarred
But its edge
Honed twice as sharp
With age,
My words
Are penned in blood
All flowing
From the heart
With age,
I embrace what
Truth reveals
And am humbled
By its power
With age,
My light burns
Free at last
To illume
—my final hour
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
The Call
The dirtier the world,
the cleaner the verse
The need becoming greater
—when the call most perverse
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)
Higher Given
Belief and knowledge,
master and slave
The truth higher given,
facts rearrange
Belief and knowledge,
cursed to define
The weakness of reason
—transcendence divine
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)
Transcendent & Divine
Science will never prove
The existence of God
Science will never disprove
The existence of God
Its physics pre-emergent
Its logic self contained
If anything, a tool
To measure what’s at hand
But like the foundry never
Retaining the artists spirit
Quantum theory will never
Define the Creator
Both simple and complex
Defying contradiction
It’s inside the deepest paradoxes
That we come closest to God
And within those contradictions
Become truly ourselves
Emerging from the great mystery
—both transcendent and divine
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)