Kurt Philip Behm

Short & Dear (+3)

My life,

  dumped onto paper

 

My love,

  deep in the beer

 

The years,

  a fateful mirror

 

With time now short

  —and dear

 

(Memories Of The Main Point: November, 1972)

         ‘Dinner With Jerry Jeff Walker’

 

 

Pick Your Poison

 

Booze—Broads—The Bible,

  which poison will you claim

 

The one that numbs, the one that thrills

   —the one your soul to shame

 

‘Captain Tony’s, Key West: June, 1971’ 

 

 

Back To Thee

 

Let me take you on a journey,

  to a place inside yourself

 

Not the body mind connection,

  but true consciousness itself

 

Before you walk a darkened space,

  a light must first go on

 

Not tasked with anything other than,

  an awareness set upon

 

Your eyes look out, true vision in,

  the stuff of what you’re made

 

Before the questions were unleashed,

  one answer left unblamed

 

So close your eyes and close your mind,

   and set your spirit free

 

The path aglow from whence you came

   —that leads you back to thee

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)

 

 

Yours Alone

 

Transcendence—reality,

  the power to choose

 

The physical burning,

  the spiritual hue

 

One leaves you ashen,

  the other alive

 

The choice begets freedom

  —yours alone to decide

 

(Dreamsleep- June, 2019)