Forever In Shade (+3)

The light of remembrance

  the will’s DNA

Entombed by dementia

 —forever in shade

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Redemption Near

Did you waste your life

  just making money

Did you eat the bread

  and not the honey

Did you sell your soul

  as your children watched

Was your heart left cold

  in a tinderbox

Were your excuses rich

  and your reasons poor

Did you wake up full

  and still ask for more

Were your blessings shunned

  as you scratched and clawed

Saying no harm done

  “I never broke the law”

Were you teeth all straightened

  and your motives bent

Were your eyes detached

  from what heaven sent

Were your memories lost

  in some dead refrain

As a lonely footnote

  to another’s name

If you had one chance

  to re-right these wrongs

Would you hide in silence

  or break out in song

With your soul imprisoned

  the choice is clear

All joy awaits

 —redemption near

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Daydreams

The nursery, a womb

   where fantasy begins

The clay, the permission

  for the sculptor to sin

The keyboard, the staircase

  to a heavenly score

The day, once forsaken

   —its daydream records

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

Alleyways Of Stone

A highway of regret…

 an avenue of denial

A boulevard of hopes and dreams

 where footsteps have defiled

A thoroughfare of wanton time

 each choice a dead end road

In fated plundered wanderlust

 —dark alleyways of stone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)