The Dark Truth (+2)

Academia blocks real knowledge,

  Native Peoples will attest

So many wrappings covering their lies,

 each field does then arrest

With logic and ethics pointing the way,

 their path leads further down

Young minds abandoned, thoughts astray,

 pontificates espouse

Academia buries the truth

 then wears it like a crown

Claiming it only for itself,

 its charlatans abound

Attacking all others points of view

 with ink to cut and maim

Touting themselves, they flounder and drift

   —a victim of their game

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)

Ancient Voices

All bareness forgiven

  the razors gone dry

The excuses all shaven

  no more asking why

A soul once abundant

  my face starts to fill

No sentence redundant

  no lines to go shrill

New destiny chosen

  man’s burden unsung

The look becomes learned

  masculinity sum

All chains have unshackled

  a face that goes deep

A beard now awakens

  —ancient voices that sleep

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)

Before The Fire

The eyes of the artist

  the spirit of man

The spark before the fire

  the vision—before the plan

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)