Ode To Bobby (+4)

I never wanted to be famous,

   I only wanted to be great

I never promised you an answer

  even now as questions inflate

I traveled each and every highway

  as time kept changing once again

I never told you it was magic

  —just a wish blowing in the wind

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

First Cut

 Knowing 

  not repeating

The weakness

  of all refrain

A first cut

  true and deepest

Once healed

  —its scar remains

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Love Our Fate

If the world would only stop on cue

  all promises made would return anew

The seasons would rearrange their order

  and lines we’ve drawn—no longer borders

If the world would only dance on cue

  and kick up its heels for me and you

Then what a show we all could make

  to merengue together—with love our fate

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

File Or Burn

Seeing better from a distance

  than you ever could up close

The memories play like children

   in voices that you spoke

The truth is where you find it

   every season, every turn

Where space creates acceptance

  —your soul to file or to burn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

False Reflection

Stop trying to be a poet,

  and say what you feel

Kill off the dilettante

  both hands on the wheel

In front of the mirror,

  we all wear a crown

Are your verses to be written

  —by a sage or a clown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)