The Prisoner Of Time (+3)

Does your structure inhibit

the meaning

 

Does a smile work to cover your

pain

 

Does today mean much less

than tomorrow

 

Are your messages forever

the same

 

Do you write before feelings

have woken

 

The letters pretty, in cursive

review

 

When your words leave the pulpit,

unspoken

 

Do you retreat to the very

last pew

 

Is there refuge as darkness

encroaches

 

Locking windows where the sun

used to shine

 

Is your format now holding

you captive

 

And a victim,

—the prisoner of time

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

 

 

 

At Ease And Unfurled

 

Is your pathway to heaven now structured

with those words that your verse seeks to pray

 

Is your stairway straight up or diverted,

with remittance and debts to repay

 

Is your meaning construed or verbatim,

with intention set free of this world

 

Is your love what was given or taken,

—with your heart now at ease and unfurled

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

 

 

 

God To Reject

 

The question outliving the answer,

the chosen—their verdict was death

 

The prophecy destroying the prophet,

religion—its God to reject

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

 

 

 

Last Words

 

Can you pray without a doctrine,

can you sing above the choir

 

Can you cast off earthly burdens,

can you burn without the fire

 

Can you give, no longer taking,

can you welcome strangers in

 

Can you love beyond all feeling,

—your last words to then forgive

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April,2017)