Complexity Denied (+2)

As warlord of the ticking count…

 time marches uncontested

Avoiding every scrutiny,

 defending every lie

All seasons caught within its grasp,

 each day a slave in training

Order becoming disorder again

 —complexity denied

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

The Past Beyond

Trying to be present,

 I gave up the master plan

Sacrificing what’s past beyond

 —reclaiming who I am

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

The Formless Question

Is beauty connected,

 or to a vacuum condemned

Is truth then required,

 for it to enter within

Can beauty be measured,

 by the heart or the mind

Can it chase, or displace, or replace

 what it finds

If beauty is truth,

 let all reason be shown

Why judgment and logic,

 to our hearts stay unknown

As semantics untangle,

 and the linguists all kneel

The question stays formless

  —to astound and congeal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)