Last Check To Cash (+4)

How do I exit gracefully,

how do I end it all

Can I rewrite the terms again

before the final fall

The kids now counting every day

the moments still all mine

The days and weeks of years gone by

a measure now defined

How do I finally say goodbye

and start anew again

This world peeled back against itself

no more left to befriend

Regret a word best left behind

for others who have sinned

Stepping into eternity’s vault

—last check to cash within

(Train #56 ‘Vermonter’ To White River Junction Vt. 3/22/2018)

Till Our Wishes

I lived inside her laughter,

I slept inside her song

I wrote inside her meaning

—till our wishes all were gone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)

Our New Beginning

To live inside

 your laughter

To your hearts

 will I belong

To write each hope

  eternal

As all wishes

 turn to song

To My Grandchildren: October 9^th, 2015

My Soul To Shine

My DNA lettered

My bloodstream in verse

My feelings in couplets

My last goes to first

My breathing in prose

My expression in rhyme

My horizons unwritten

My soul there to shine

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2015)

When—Now

When did the global depression

begin

When did the leaves start to

wither and fall

When did the answers start questioning

themselves

When did the love vanish that springtime

recalls

Now, every method begets nothing

but madness

Now, the rotten pudding harbors proof

deep within

Now, every deal is dealt from

the bottom

Now, disowned and orphaned

—the truth cowers in sin

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2015)