If It Ain't Worth Remembering (+5)

Patches on the quilt of life,

letters sew not rend

 

Memory darning time to time,

future warmth depends

 

Words left tattered, words that bind,

 ragged breath portends

 

To stitch it once and have it last

—tomorrow on the mend

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

Inspired By Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Ronnie Van Zant

“If It Ain’t Worth Remembering, It Ain’t No Good”

 

 

 

Until Then

 

Until you really love someone,

you don’t know what you’ll do

 

The old rules self-abated,

priorities renewed

 

Until you really love someone,

you won’t see past yourself

 

Your life upturned, your role reversed

—your soul to someone else

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

 

 

The Borderline

 

I dare you

not to read the words,

I double-dare you true

 

To live outside

a sentenced life

—your spirit unrenewed

 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)

 

 

 

Love Demands

 

Damned when we do, damned when we don’t,

the end works out the same

 

As love demands its pound of flesh

—the lion never tamed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

‘Inspired By Daniel Turner’

 

 

Surrendering To Love

 

All passion enslaved to Aphrodite,

her chains beyond silver or gold

 

Where time will forever surrender,

 to love—never purchased or sold

 

(Rosemont Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

Charlatan Of Verse

 

An empty voice with naught to say,

a barrel hollow born

 

To spout and spew, pontificate,

a hairless sheep forlorn

 

With lines recopied, often stole,

released, his name to bear

 

A charlatan of spoken verse

—embezzled words to share

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)