Our Spiritual Vacuum (+2)

Is God a deficiency in

  our character or makeup

Do we fill in the vacuum with

  almighty tales of beyond

Is the salvation we yearn for

  there buried deep inside us

Do our sermons lay unwritten

  —last devotional unsung

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

Damning Refrain

The deeper the words

  formed

The meaner they

  became

       ‘now free and alive

         and stirred from the bottom

      ‘once buried and denied

        in moments of pain’

Taking on new life,

  they glare and they scowl

Staring back from the mirror

  —a damning refrain

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

Descartes, Be Damned

From life’s final dissertation,

 logic must be barred

A blueprint of our limitations,

 its legions burned and scarred

In that last final closing moment,

 transcendence kindled bright

The strictures of its failed excuse

  —left victim to the night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)