Two Thoughts From Before (+4)

Mankind Alone

Reality…

humanity’s myth

(Des Moines Iowa: January, 1992)

Samsara

The music of the soul…

is truth

(Des Moines Iowa: January, 1992)

Times Refusal

Youth takes my hand and holds me back,

as old age points the way

Unwilling yet to leave this Spring,

as Winter calls my name

The image in the mirror fresh,

the one my eyes now see

Of Lochinvar and Lancelot,

in dreamlike fantasy

The children see me older though,

their children older still

My spouse afraid I can’t accept,

what time and seasons will

I hold on tight to wings that splay,

o’er fields both green and gold

And shun the backstairs of my fate

—refusing to get old

(Trumbull Connecticut: February, 2017)

Twin Reality

The inside looking out,

the outside looking in

Two sides of the same portal

—reality a twin

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)

Singularity

Speculation is to the truth

—as opinion is to belief

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)