Yours Alone (+3)

Transcendence—reality,

  the power to choose

 

The physical burning,

  the spiritual hue

 

One leaves you ashen,

  the other alive

 

The choice begets freedom

  —yours alone to decide

 

(Dreamsleep- June, 2019)

 

 

The Pathway

 

Is there a direction to the universe,

  without the polar caps

 

The equator gone as space expands,

  looking forward—looking back

 

Does today become tomorrow,

  as tomorrow self destructs

 

Are the questions left by law unasked,

  when the answers run amuck

 

Can our thoughts be put in limbo,

  can our feelings lead the way

 

To what is known beyond the light,

  illusions cast away

 

And if just this moment matters,

  and the prophets all were right

 

The doorway back to who we are

   —in dreams we’ll dream tonight

 

(Haverford Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

 

 

Illusions Foray

 

What side can you judge infinity from,

  the front or then the back

 

If it’s never over, or never ends,

  how then can you protract

 

Can infinity stop and start again,

  would it be different or the same

 

Can judgment ever qualify,

  what it can’t even name

 

If generalizations are generally true,

  what can we really know

 

With the distance between our hopes and dreams,

  beyond what time can show

 

One step forward and one step back,

  micromanaging the present away

 

The ideas you profess, whose laws you tout,

   tethering emptiness—to illusions foray

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)

 

 

Bleeding Freely

 

The wound bleeds free

 —that kills the angry heart

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

 

From My Novel 'Jumping Into The Darkness'

 

 

By Others felt

 

Am I at all responsible,

  for what occurs outside myself

 

Is it at all defensible,

  to ignore those feelings dealt

 

Is my world then co-dependent,

  on what happens somewhere else

 

Are the answers free to self-sustain,

  or conjoined—by others felt

 

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: June, 2019)