Until you escape your own cognition,
you’re a prisoner of your mind
Your spirit waiting to lift you free,
dialectic far behind
Until you can leave all reasoning trapped,
and let your thoughts go free
You’ll never be able to self implode
—as you were meant to be
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
Fait Accompli\'
A gift or obligation,
the Poet signed his name
A promise wrapped in silence,
decision masked by pain
One choice among the many,
within salvation lies
The victors lay unspoiled
—with truth to live or die
(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)
All Roads End
Laboring in obscurity…
my pen a vagabond
Hitchhiking through my consciousness,
my thumbprint worn and gone
Wishing past the hoping,
spitting into the wind
All roads end in the desert
—darkness my best friend
(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)
New Words
An emotional garden…
thoughts sprout and grow
Their roots deeply planted,
all seedlings to sow
New seasons come early
their harvesting late
Perennial feelings
—new words to await
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
Dissolution
Money, divorced from fame
Divorced from talent
Divorced from blame
Feelings, divorced from logic
Divorced from judgment
Divorced from pain
Words, divorced from reasons
Divorced from praise
Divorced from gain
Divorced from the moment
Divorced from the instant
Time—divorced again
(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)
Calling Us Inward
The logic of life…
illogically pure
In search of itself,
last problem to cure
Synapses relapse,
science reclaims
The form with the formula,
washed down the drain
Structural weakness,
obsolescence defined
The clocks after midnight,
forever to chime
With finality’s ink,
used falsely to stamp
The rug underneath us,
pulled out in a rant
Our nature found larcenous,
truth we must steal
To claim for ourselves,
what our lies deem as real
While eternity listens
to this comedy play out
The light calling us inward
—past reason and doubt
(Strafford Pennsylvania: June, 2019)
Searching
Free verse…
a forest without a path
—a direction without an end
(St. Davids Pennsylvania: June, 2019)