Kurt Philip Behm

Gabriel\'s Horn

A captive of your ontology,

a tiger in a cage

 

Doomed to look with borrowed eyes,

your life played out on stage

 

You pace the floor incessant,

as anger builds within

 

And hear the distance calling,

feeling trapped, an alien

 

Will that trumpet ever reach you,

by whose Archangel you’re reborn

 

Will redemption come to free you,

—if Saint Gabriel blows his horn

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

 

 

Truth Or Lie

 

Must God stay beyond our

understanding

 

His prophecy to conscript

and confuse

 

Are the Trinity and

Resurrection

 

Both miracles or only

a ruse

 

Do we build temples to

our edification

 

Storing Icons that judge

and decry

 

Is the Bible fictitious

or sacred

 

Is Redemption the truth

or a lie

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)