Unbaptized Inside Us (+7)

Without religion,

  where would we hide

 

What would be our reason,

  could souls justify

 

What would excuse the killing,

  cleaning deaths stain away

 

What would forgive tomorrow,

  for the sins of today

 

Without preaching dogmatic,

  what weight to our words

 

While unbaptized inside us

  —awaits the true Lord

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

Silence Unheard

 

Unchained from the structure,

  enslaved by the words

 

My voice to the wind

  —freeing silence unheard

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

Love Takes A Bow

 

I look at the money,

  asking—what’s it all mean

 

From the toys to the honey,

  and the years in between

 

I look at the statements,

  as my love takes a bow

 

Thanking God my abatement,

  although late—came about

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

 

Then And Now

 

My deal with the future…

  my debt to the present

 

My deal with the present…

  —my debt from the past

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

Values, Time Withstood

 

The logic in morality,

  lay hidden in the math

 

The danger in neutrality,

  an unwillingness to act

 

The numbers tell the story,

  as no Poet ever could

 

Their truth the final glory

  —in values time withstood

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

Emptiness Within

 

Are your words predictable,

  are the feelings staid

 

Is the truth rehashed,

  the same pavers laid

 

Is your verse now tired,

  its veneer worn thin

 

Whose mask barely hiding

  —the emptiness within

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2019)

 

 

Hand In Hand

 

I don’t like money

I like freedom

And in this new

Millennium

It’s hard to have one

 —without the other

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)

 

 

 

Don't Blaspheme

 

Don’t talk to me about form,

  when the feeling isn’t there

 

Don’t talk to me about substance,

  when experience is rare

 

Don’t talk to me about insight,

  when reflection is ignored

 

Don’t blaspheme an epiphany

  —in the presence of the Lord

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2016)