Beneath The Masque (+3)

Embracing the myth,

I hide deep within

 

More Devil than Savior,

aboriginal sin

 

Excuses my sacraments,

grace bartered for lies

 

Judgment internal

—redemption denied

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

 

 

Verse My Heart

 

My prose becoming painful,

poetry yet a joy

 

Explaining has deterred me,

rhyme a favorite toy

 

Sentences locked and muted,

as couplets run and play

 

New paragraphs unwritten

—as verse my heart does pray

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

So Help Me God

 

Religion has too many givens,

the takeaways few, far between

 

Questioning ravaged, intelligence savaged

—the mind left to wander and dream

 

(Bryn Mawr College: February, 2020)

 

 

 

Wasted Breath

 

Bad prose masquerading as poetry,

darkness posing as light

 

Words stacked on top of words uttered in vain

—narcissists delight

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)