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)