Kurt Philip Behm

The Tigers Cage (+1)

Freedom comes packaged

entrapped and confined

 

How big is your cage,

 to roam and define

 

Always constricted,

with borders that move

 

Its bars of detention

—forever reproved

 

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)

 

 

 

Chasing Its Tail

 

Language has limits

when backed to the wall

 

Its truth self-defining

by sages et al.

 

Language deserts us

as meaning retreats

 

Its light self-diffusing

—when destiny speaks

 

(Villanova University: January, 2021)