Can you have
without owning
Can you embrace
what’s on loan
Can you give
without taking
Can your love
—stand alone
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
Contraband
Do you play inside the Corn Flakes,
or are corn stalks more you game
Is that Hersey Bar the answer,
or the cocoa or cocaine
Do you clerk for someone’s feelings,
inspiration to be damned
Your legacy an afterthought
—another’s contraband
(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)
Only What Is
You can’t alter reality
with an opinion
You can’t alter reality
with a drug
To alter reality,
you must force away time
Defining the indefinable
—leaving only what is
(Grantham New Hampshire: February, 2017)
That Look Remains
There’s a look…
That look
In a persons eyes,
When they’ve
Transcended
Nationality and race,
Social position
And wealth
In silent visits
They come to pray,
Their bodies
No longer
Controlling their spirit,
But that look,
That look
—remains
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Lost Bondage
When meaning becomes enslaved
by abstraction
—your Poem is lost
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)
Heavenly Sham
With every religion…
to share in the blame
Masking out God,
in costumes of shame
Seeking to own
what they can’t understand
A covetous folly
—a heavenly sham
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
My Hear To Rest
While not belonging anywhere,
beholden then to none
I spread me seeds upon the land,
and let my spirit run
I cast my lot into the air,
direction, fate be known
And far beyond prevailing winds
—my heart to rest atoned
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)