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)