Your Fear An Asylum
Your head turned away
but you needed to hear
Your memory in flames
and the truth very near
Your ears became deaf
as new words tried to form
Your fear an asylum
—where the past is reborn
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
Now Denied
Last night I received an invitation
to my own death….
Signed by my former self
witnessed by a past unspoken
Sealed with a memory
I had yet to live
And stamped by a future
—now denied
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
Memory The Master
Truth is a title,
reason is a slave
Love is a mistress
forgiveness, bed unmade
The past for excuses
the future willed in vain
Memory still the master
—of what goes round again
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
The Moment Gone
Secrets keep us sick
as emotions run and hide
Perception dark and thick
the truth turned into lies
Secrets keep us sick
with denial center stage
Time bartered, the moment gone
—nothing left but rage
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)