Kurt Philip Behm

What They\'ll Never Escape (+1)

People are afraid of what

they can’t understand

themselves most often assured

 

In the depths of their wandering

a voice cries out

a voice too close to ignore

 

People will bolt from that thing

that pursues

that thing that augurs to chase

 

With blinders on tight

and running in vain

—to flee what they’ll never escape

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)

 

Be Most Careful

 

Be careful as you age….

when they try to convince you

that your rough edges need to

come off

 

Be careful when they say that

“Your words need to be more

carefully chosen and more appropriate

to the politically elite”

 

Be careful when they threaten those

things that you have developed over

time that they will never appreciate

or understand

 

But be most careful when they tell

you…. “We are really your friends and

have only your best interests at heart”

—be most careful

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2015)