Fill The Stadium (+7)

Be the champion of your art…

  or your playing fields will be empty

    —and your spectators left suffering alone

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

 

 

False Hope

 

Before you fall,

  you’ve got to stand

 

Your voice once stalled,

  fates reprimand

 

The paradigm floats,

  on swamps that drain

 

Where praise cries out

   —false hope again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

 

 

 

Its Light Shines

 

Truth has a power,

  exclusively its own

 

Beyond opinion and verdict,

  its nature is shown

 

Through good times and bad,

  its light shining through

 

A frame to the vision

   —whose picture renews

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2019)

 

 

Your Touch

 

I like the idea,

  but not when it’s real

 

Your love in a letter,

  to read but not feel

 

Lost in conception,

  affection belied

 

Your words I can handle

  —whose touch I deny

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

 

 

 

Draining Our Spirits

 

Like an open wound

That won’t heal

The current political situation

Bleeds out…

A hemorrhaged polarization

Inside a malignancy of lies

Draining our spirits

  —of all life giving faith

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

 

 

Still To Dance

 

Not always understanding…

  I write out the words

 

Lost in comprehension,

  till wonder returns

 

Each line a new postulate,

  no phrase left to chance

 

Last metaphor a song

 —my mind still to dance

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)  

 

 

First Light To Keep

 

The first cut sharp and burning red,

  don’t edit away its fire

 

Keep the wound both fresh and raw,

  never cauterize your ire

 

The horizon breaks just once each day,

  a new dawn—cold hearts aspire

 

Rays burning deep, first light to keep

   —old ashes to inspire

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)

 

 

Immemoratio

 

When emptiness

  replaces memory

                                                        

The wind…

  forever ceases to blow

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2016)