Empty Spaces (+2)

Running from themselves,

the shadows broke away

 

Light newly orphaned

with no endorsement

 

Tracks of remembrance,

forgotten and bare

 

Space filled with emptiness

—connection denied

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2019)

 

 

Last Charade

 

Woefully, the footlights dim,

the magic fades—the chorus grim

 

A curtain falls as memory fades,

the ending near—one last charade

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

 

 

Regret

 

Do you justify your own beliefs,

to force upon your will

 

Or skip instead the whole charade,

with truth left to distill

 

Do you wander aimless in the night,

in search of what you’ve lost

 

As darkened hallways call you back

—regret the only cost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)