Childless (+5)

You say you went childless,

  so where are your riches?

 

All wrapped up in numbers

  or locked in a vault

 

You say you went childless,

  but where is your fortune?

 

You’ve already been forgotten

  —your grave has been robbed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)

 

 

Tuesday Musing 10/23/2018

 

       Not Before

 

Say what you will or wont

  but do as you pray

 

Bleed as you will in the night

  but carry the day

 

Take as your conscience directs

  but give all you can

 

Return when the fighting is done

   —but not before then

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)

 

      A Final Amen

 

Through critical discussion

  he walked in the night

 

And passed all the doubters

  embracing their fright

 

After giving it once,

  he gave forever again

 

For that bigger than him

  —and that final amen

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)

 

 

Orphaned Silent

 

You hear the words calling,

  but what if they stop

 

What if the voice changes

  to cold what was hot

 

And it’s not yours at all

  but a squatter that hides

 

D.N.A. of its own

  new agenda of lies

 

Those messages before,

  were they gifts or on loan

 

Is the feast yours to eat,

  will meat stay on the bone

 

Will the Muse be unfaithful,
  is divorce in the wind

 

Leaving words then unnamed

  —orphaned silent within

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)

 

 

Desire

 

Passion builds a home

  —that talent only visits

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)

 

 

Pain

 

Often,

Life’s greatest pleasure

  —is getting the pain to stop

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)