When Reason Falls (+2)

It’s hard to do the right thing

  when fate calls your name out loud

 

Where not only the bad get punished

 in its pursuit

 

The world has lost its way

   along the path of least resistance

 

Our ethos dueling the hunger pangs

 of human nature at its root

 

So many have been killed

 in the ageless battle for truth immortal

 

A deadly fight with rules afoul

 that change from night to day

 

The sun though always rising east

 the moon diverts its purpose

 

As reason falls when memory stalls

  —the righteous kept at bay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)

 

 

If Walls Could Talk

 

Sentenced wrongly

  imprisoned well

 

The bars a fortress

  —where voices dwell

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

 

 

The Fortress

 

From the rock of ages

  a pebble thrown

 

A thundering crash

 —from David’s stone

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)