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)