Kurt Philip Behm

For The Determinists (+5)

Self-preservation…

our most basic law

 

Suicide proving

—that free will exists

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

 

 

Shouting Farewell

 

Tripping over my shadow,

guilt darkened the night

 

The devil bespoken,

fear burning bright

 

Stepping into the darkness,

one chance to look back

 

Light shouting farewell

—as panic attacked

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

 

Perchance To...

 

We make the beds we lie in

—to sleep or not

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2020)

 

 

Too Much - Too Little

 

Understanding too much,

feeling too little

 

Our being unbalanced

—and spirit restrained

 

(Wayne Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

 

Letting Go

 

With every new belief,

you have to let something go

 

Each thought self-entitled

—to reap what it sows

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)

 

 

Free To Roam

 

The mind and body dualist,

his prison for a throne

 

Confusion reigns where consciousness walks,

where can it find a home

 

The soul the prize that matters,

the spirit up for grabs

 

Proximity defining its own lie,

positioning unclad

 

But somewhere in the distance,

and somewhere heretofore

 

A laughter lives beyond itself,

escaping its own core

 

The zero-sum dilemma,

what Sages claim to own

 

Lay far beyond what’s deep within

—where truth is free to roam

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)