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)