Glass Houses

Stopping just short of judgment,

  his mind took a leap

 

Whose soul rose as substance

  now ready to speak

 

Words before never uttered

  or spoken in vain

 

This acknowledgement followed

  crying out in refrain…

 

“The joy in the brotherhood

   all torment by choice

 

 “To share in celebration,

   we alone can’t rejoice

 

 “The critic inside us

   the judger of sins

 

 “Is best left in silence

   till it targets within”

 

As time will remind us,

  and these words will recall

 

All biting reprisal

  —the coward’s downfall

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

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