Nunc Perpetuum (+1)

Kurt Philip Behm

All of my life,

living for today

 

All of tomorrow,

living for tomorrow

 

None of my life,

living for yesterday

 

Lived as today

—as today was tomorrow

 

(Reading ‘The Portable Einstein,’ September, 2020)

 

Today was tomorrow

—to all of yesterday”

 

 

 

Spiritus Vitae

 

Short in stature,

long in fight,

the zealot stood his ground

 

The odds unfavored,

no end in sight,

 victory still unfound

 

The daylight haunting,

the body count,

the field a sea of blood

 

A bugle blowing

for one last charge,

advancing through the mud

 

With force depleted

but spirit whole,

his voice heard far and wide…

 

“Into the jaws

of certain death

—for glory now we ride”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)

 

 

 

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: September 25th, 2020 10:33
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