To Remember... (+2)

The heartache gone,

but still remembered

 

Its pain

—the shadow of my soul

 

(Dreamsleep: October 10/25/2019)

 

 

Beck & Call

 

Is your greatness unendorsed

by godly symbols old and new

 

Is your strength contained and held within,

as broth begets the stew

 

Is your message clear with no defense,

either martial or sublime

 

With freedom at your beck and call

—all stricture cast aside

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)

 

 

 

To Borrow

 

Answering with phrases loaned…

a paradox recalled

 

The choices, nouns and pronouns,

all verbs to rise or fall

 

Old questions freed, all doubt besieged,

defined and then dethroned

 

The power in each chosen word,

to borrow—not to own

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)