With Heart Aglow (+10)

Tapping into redemption's dream,

I put my smaller dream aside

 

And reveled in its greater power,

reclaiming truth from lies

 

So blessed in this light ablaze,

than by candlelight unknown

 

In thanks I kindle warm again

recharged—with heart aglow

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

The Past To Forsake

 

As I lay dying,

let go of my hand

 

Bid me farewell,

my words to withstand

 

As a last wish,

your love may I take

 

Into tomorrow

—the past to forsake

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

The Past Foreclosed

 

Nostalgia,

and future wishing

 

The present

—foreclosing on the past

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

Reborn In Verse

 

As my body stoops with age,

youth lulls upon the page

 

Where words forever young,

cry willful to be sung

 

As daylight quickly passed,

I greet night a friend at last

 

With memories deeply grained

—reborn in verse again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

 

 

Fire Still Burns

 

With age in my body,

but youth on the page

 

A sword old and rusted,

now tempers with rage

 

These bones may be brittle,

with feet slow to drill

 

But fire still burns

—in my memory and will

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

The Present To Bind

 

If you always face left,

try once facing right

 

Stuck deep in the mire,

all truth beyond sight

 

It’s the questions at hand,

as answers unwind

 

Past and future a myth

—the present to bind

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

My Last Breath

 

What will they say

when I’m gone

 

What will I write,

as I take

my last breath

 

What will they say

—when I’m gone

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

Eternity's Glow

 

Salvation rises,

from the depths

of the unsure

 

Its light ablaze,

exposing fear

it must cure

 

Redemption hovers,

death’s pestilence

below

 

Casting all there reborn,

in eternity’s

glow

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)  

 

 

Convicted To Silence

 

Political correctness

—prison of the new millennium

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

Power Infects

 

Crossing all borders,

 its fever befalls

 

Power infectious

—the cure long recalled

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

 

 

 

Mortgaged Dreams

 

Hand me down memories,

borrowed not owned

 

Dreams that are mortgaged

—the present on loan

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)