Make A Decision (+2)

Be smart...

  stop trying to act smart

Be alive...

  stop talking about life

Make a decision...

  stop fearing the possible outcomes

Pick a direction...

  —stop spinning your wheels in space

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

My Back To The Past

Sharing blood, but nothing more,

   family slipped away

Into a memory locked in steel,

  old thoughts safely at bay

All contact denied, memory entombed,

  though close their bodies stay

Life journeys on, my back to the past

   —until my dying day

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)

Salvation Divine

This poem I read

 at the end of my life…

As I bid you adieu

 from the joy and the strife

A verse filled with hope,

 and with love from within

To carry inside you,

 my song on the wind

I’ll try not to preach,

 as others have done

But rather beseech you,

 your songs yet unsung

To love with the strength

 that’s God given inside

And to love even more,

 in an unending rhyme

These words are my gift,

 I bequeath you today

In the hope you’ll remember

 what I last had to say

For I loved you all deeply,

 your kindness I sought

And remember now sweetly,

 those blessings you brought

So I leave you this morning,

 and bid you farewell

I leave you together,

 pledged hearts here to dwell

All strength in your sharing,

 my love to remind

Your redemption awaits

 —its salvation divine

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)