Kurt Philip Behm

Before The Fall

Wounded vanity

 mother of all tragedy

Slander and insults

the arrows dead aim

 

Pride bleeding carnage

no reason can bandage

The mirror once broken

—each crack filled with pain

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2023)

 

Invisible in nature
it simmers within
To rise to the surface
when conflict begins

(Poem To End Chapter 32: February, 2023)