Unable To Speak

Trying to make the poetry prose

Or the prose poetic again

I insulted the meaning

With juxtaposition

Stabbing an idea

That should have been shot

Killing a verse

That should have been saved

Thinking the truth

While uttering a lie

Forming the words

  —unable to speak

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2014)

All Promise Gone

For the lack of one letter,

  the word could not form

For the lack of one word,

  the entire sentence was wrong

For the lack of one sentence,

  the paragraph went astray

For the lack of one paragraph,

  the page lay undone

For the lack of one page,

  the chapter could not end

For the lack of one chapter,

  the book was now lost

For the lack of one book,

  its message unwritten

For the lack of one book

  —all promise was gone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2014)

As The World Turns

When the world turns

   on a whisper

Why do we insist on

  shouting

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2014)