Kurt Philip Behm

The Moment Demands (+1)

In a distended reality

 the Buddhists were right,

 but pointed they were wrong

 

A metaphor chosen

 to soothe and delight,

 but our choices a different song

 

Transcendent revelation

 a spiritual ideal,

 as today takes its pound of flesh

 

The totality of being

 the noblest of causes

 —when the moment demands no less

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)

 

The Devil Left Crying

 

Like the hub of a wheel

 reality turns

 

Each spoke a religion

 a doctrine that churns

 

Christians and Buddhists

 spread out to the rim

 

Jews and then Muslims

 attached deep within

 

The wheel turns in circles

 as spokes never touch

 

Each message turns blindly

 to act as a crutch

 

Until craters dismantle

 ….the wheel breaking free

 

To sink in exclusion

 all truth to be seen

 

Spokes pile and mix

 lying dead on the ground

 

The devil left crying

  —salvation unbound

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)