Kurt Philip Behm

In Song

With prose,

I saw only with two eyes

and wrote with either hand

 

With poetry,

my eyes and hands were abandoned

leaving only my heart

 

While in the distance played a lyric,

freeing what my written words

could never unchain

 

And in that instant

when I first heard its melody

my heart was carried away,

 

—in song

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)