Sagacity (+2)

Darkness, the beginning path

  spawns brightness at the end

Storm clouds over a troubled youth

  division on the mend

Struggles, trials, and failures past

  just fuel to keep you warm

Sagacity, the final truth

   —eyes seeing through the harm

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Eight Questions

Will there ever come a time

  when time doesn’t matter

Will there ever come a date

  when the days won’t connect

Will there ever come a phrase

   its words devoid of meaning

Will there ever come a song

  whose melody won’t play

Have you let what you celebrate

  turn into celebrity

Has your message been transformed

  into a billboard or sign

Have you become a caricature

  of a free and lasting symbol

Have your words become mere chatter

   —in your pandering for fame

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Vision's Gift

The older I get…

 the closer I become to the things I can’t see

The older I get…

 the more I’m amazed by the things that surround me

The older I get…

 the longer the nights and the dreams that they bring

The older I get…

 empty words falling mute—each new season to sing

The older I get…

  those women that I loved I now carry inside

The older I get…

 that child I once was to return with a smile

The older I get

 the deeper I embrace the reason I’m here

The older I get

  each moment a gift—with its vision so clear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)