Are You Living Now (+3)

Is there always one verse

  you still have yet to write

 

 And if not—what’s the point

  of it all

Are you the repository of

  all you have felt

 

Or the dealer and merchant

  of lies

 

Are your thoughts tattooed onto

  your immortal soul

 

With your feelings exposed

  or held back

 

Are the words disconnected

  from the ink in your veins

 

Do you live within

  all that you’ve said

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

 

 

Free Of All Lies

 

Belief in the end…

 if truth be your cross

 

To break or to bend

 veracity’s cost

 

Last judgment your own

  hawks chase as doves fly

 

One choice to atone

 —when free of all lies

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)

 

 

 

Death On the Fringes

 

The older I get

  the louder the Muse does parade

 

The shorter the moment

  the deeper her message invades

 

The older I get

  distant voices filter and fade

 

With death on the fringes

  —all focus recentered and staged

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)  

 

 

The Last Drum Roll

 

What is the baseline

  of your life?

 

How deep is the chord structure

  of your meaning?

 

What is that riff that no raff

  can destroy?

 

How long is your drum roll

 —at the end?

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)