Your Fear An Asylum (+3)

 Your Fear An Asylum

Your head turned away

 but you needed to hear

Your memory in flames

 and the truth very near

Your ears became deaf

 as new words tried to form

Your fear an asylum

  —where the past is reborn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)

Now Denied

Last night I received an invitation

to my own death….

Signed by my former self

witnessed by a past unspoken

Sealed with a memory

I had yet to live

And stamped by a future

—now denied 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)

 Memory The Master

Truth is a title,

 reason is a slave

Love is a mistress

 forgiveness, bed unmade

The past for excuses

 the future willed in vain

Memory still the master

 —of what goes round again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)

The Moment Gone

Secrets keep us sick

 as emotions run and hide

Perception dark and thick

 the truth turned into lies

Secrets keep us sick

 with denial center stage

Time bartered, the moment gone

 —nothing left but rage

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)