Seizing The Instant (+1)

Kurt Philip Behm

Give up your torment, 

take back your verse

tomorrow upon you

for better or worse

 

Take up your wishes,

give in to dreams

sleep in denial,

old memories scream

 

Free up the moment,

strike out the past

damning the future,

its promise unmasked

 

Strike up the silence,

freeing new words

seizing the instant

—forever unheard

 

(The New Room: May, 2022)

 

 

America Bleeding

 

Democracy’s demons,

they follow and stalk

for every freedom

they strike like a hawk

 

The cost of liberty

its downside abides

to follow intrepid

with vengeance as guide

 

All men here are equal

to right and then wrong

pursuing their happiness

the short and the long

 

Hoping the majority

will rule most benign

many to suffer

from licensed decline

 

Nobility’s tenure

its reign has been long

but treachery threatens

the best of our song

 

Tomorrow in focus

the few and the brave

must suffer the arrows

that seek to enslave

 

And onward we struggle

to save what we can

as menacing trouble

within starts again

 

This fight more than worth it

the day is now late

America bleeding

—our future at stake

 

(The New Room: May, 2022)

 

 

  • Author: Kurt Philip Behm (Offline Offline)
  • Published: May 13th, 2022 09:21
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Comments2

  • Bella Shepard

    Am I right in seeing the correlation between the two Poems? In the first I see antithetical references that seem to underpin the second, the decline of our society. Brilliant!

  • Kurt Philip Behm

    Insightful, Bella. I wrote them back to back and was in the
    same mindset when I wrote them.



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