The Light Eternal (+4)

Kurt Philip Behm

Can you ever really lose

 what you’ve never really had

 

Can you ever be good

 if you’ve never been bad

 

Can you ever pose a question

 that’s never been asked

 

Can the answer prove elusive

 when the future is past

 

Can the moments live on frozen

 if only in your heart

 

Can the love you give unspoken

 shout the loudest unremarked

 

Can you ever really finish

 what was never yours to start

 

Can your light shine on eternal

 —without passing through the dark

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

       ‘From The Book Of Prayers’

 

 

Goodbye Laura

 

Divorcing the Muse,

 her property demands were high

 

The alimony my insight,

 leaving me speechless, high and dry

 

Once the papers were signed,

  it was the last I was to write

 

Visitation denied

  —monthly support payments in light

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

  'Dedicated To Our Own Laura...' 

 

 

His Ears To Find

 

Never writing for the unholy dollar,

 but that kid in a hundred years

 

When the world has irrevocably changed,

 and lies are all one hears

 

If he could happen to chance upon my words,

 just once while searching blind

 

Then my humble verse would breathe new life

 —within his ears to find

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

 

Truth's Refrain

 

Is freedom a mere habit

 or by will prescribed

 

Are our actions predetermined

 or self applied

 

Is consciousness a desert

 or paradise unclaimed

 

Each thought an oasis

 —watering truth’s refrain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

 

 

Verum Tamen—Verum Est

 

The Self, Free Will, and Love…

 today’s three illusions of life

 

Without just one our lives negate,

 a charlatan’s delight

 

For the Self to Love most Freely,

 this Holy Trinity must preside

 

What Plato ordained and Kant reframed

 —modern thought tries most to hide

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)   

 

 

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  • Published: April 17th, 2019 08:58
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Comments4

  • Laura🌻

    Kurt,

    Good Morning!☀️

    • “The Light Eternal”

    A plethora of intriguing questions. I can answer each couplet with a yes, a no, a maybe, or perhaps a combination of the three! For me, whatever the answers may be, my heart is in all of them! Some joyous...some painful...some in limbo!

    “Can your light shine on eternal
    —without passing through the dark”

    Without the darkness, we can’t see the shining light!

    ~Laura~

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    I've succeeded then! Thanks for the emotion and the insight.

    Kurt

    • Laura🌻

      Yes, you have!
      It seems to me...
      you always do!🤗

    • Kurt Philip Behm

      I'm thinking about filing divorce proceedings with Laura. I'm afraid
      the property settlement might just leave me penniless (speechless).

      :-0

      • Laura🌻

        You can file divorce proceedings...
        Good luck getting her consent on that divorce! She’s relentless! The divorce will NEVER happen! Totally out of the equation!💖

      • Laura🌻

        • “Goodbye Laura”
        😥😥😥😥😥

        Sustainable Alimony to be granted...and
        ...‘monthly support payments’...
        to be delivered on time!

        With much love, respect, admiration, and appreciation...
        from Laura of MPS!🌻



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