Kurt Philip Behm

The Toll (+2)

I lived inside my timeframe,

did you live inside of yours

 

I lived outside my timeframe,

did you live outside of yours

 

“I carried things from now till then,

a toll I humbly paid

 

Across a bridge where time had stopped,

—the truth to pass each way”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)

 

 

 

The Simplest Of Words

 

I could package it different,

I could present it complex,

—I could try to impress and deceive

 

But the message eternal,

and the one truly spoken,

—needs the simplest of words to conceive

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)

 

 

    Armageddon

 

Our heads so deeply in the sand,

we thought it wouldn’t come

 

And would never heed its warnings,

our denial zero-sum

 

The result of our inaction,

this swamp we dwell within

 

The wolf now shed of Grandma’s robe,

—Armageddon to begin

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2017)