Headstone Of Sorrow

Did you wear your life out;

 did you use it all up

 —what are you saving it for

 

We’re all running headlong

 toward a hole in the ground

  —that the past and future insure

 

Are you stuck on tomorrow

 lost in wishes of things

 —hoping there’s still more to come

 

Will your headstone bring sorrow

 to those mourning your loss

 —inscribing what never got done

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)

 

 

In Death Renewed

 

Old by the numbers

 refusing to give in

 dying younger than the years prescribed

 

All feigned adulthood

 to others entrusted

 refusing life’s final goodbye

 

The music now was the music then

 with one great love to see

 me through

 

My body to the soil

 my mind in defiance

  —my soul in death renewed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)