Embracing Your Fear (+3)

I’ve always been good at making an entrance

   never choosing to stay

I’ve always been good at passing through

most often forgetting the day

I bypassed adulthood, becoming a child

as your legions mocked and jeered

And answered those voices calling out of the wild

—embracing everything you fear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

On Bended Knee

You can take away health,

   you can take away riches,

   you can take my ability to see

But it will only cause me to feel

you more

   —as I cry from bended knee

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 To Forgive

When the spirit listens

 —the heart forgives

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2011) 

Morning Flower

If I could be of simple mind

and simple faith

And hold your love within my heart

for just an hour

On bended knees my arms would raise

toward heaven’s gate

Like petals reaching out

—from a morning flower

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)