No Choice
What love won’t give you
and you can’t borrow
— you have to steal
**
Each Blessing
The day I
crossed over
not counting
the years
Fixation
with age
left behind
in arrears
No longer
a number
my thankfulness
spreads
For every
new day
life betroths me
to wed
Ignoring
the time
with each blessing
bestowed
The gate slowly
opens
its pearls
— all aglow
**
Shadows Long
A prisoner
of what he didn’t know
walls grew higher still
His sentence
no parole in sight
appeal was less than nil
A convict’s tale
his cell is dark
enlightenment denied
To serve each day
in shadows long
— with light condemned to die
**
An Anthology Of Perception 