Only Now (+1)

Does worry only exist

in our memory

Or is foresight

required to fret

Will a bear live in fear

of the hunter

Or ignore what

might happen unmet

When alarm bells go off

in the moment

Rejecting the

future and past

Is time at its essence

but present

All reference

 — a rationalist caste

(The New Room: January, 2024)

Dark Lullaby

Naivete

in life

brings terror

to dreams

The psyche

wide open

a victim

to scheme

The innocent

notion

belief

to defile

Asleep

in the

nursery

—where monsters run wild

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)