Did you wear your life out;
did you use it all up
—what are you saving it for
We’re all running headlong
toward a hole in the ground
—that the past and future insure
Are you stuck on tomorrow
lost in wishes of things
—hoping there’s still more to come
Will your headstone bring sorrow
to those mourning your loss
—inscribing what never got done
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)
In Death Renewed
Old by the numbers
refusing to give in
dying younger than the years prescribed
All feigned adulthood
to others entrusted
refusing life’s final goodbye
The music now was the music then
with one great love to see
me through
My body to the soil
my mind in defiance
—my soul in death renewed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)