Author: Kurt Philip Behm

I am a lifelong author with 21 books published to date—one best seller. Much of my writing is about the deception of time and its many disguises. My Poetry 'An Anthology Of Perception,' is now available in four volumes. In addition I have a 175 page Poem 'After Midnight,' that was published in 2014. My Historical Fiction series, 'The Sword Of Ichiban' is now up to volume 8 which is being published this Spring ... Vol #1- The Sword Of Ichiban Vol #2- Darkening Sun Vol #3- Revenge Along The War Trail Vol #4- Death From The Sky Vol #5- Jumping Into the Darkness Vol #6- The Fall City Mandate. Vol #7- Approaching Storm Vol #8- Brothers In Blood One autobiographical novel, 'The Death Of The Playground' a Best Seller, published in 2007. One travel novel, 'Searching For Crazy Horse,' published in 2005, recapping my forty years of motorcycle touring in the American Rocky Mountain West. I have written one Children's Book, 'Sammy & Bumpers' that was published in 2016. All of my books are available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and better Book Stores world wide. Kurt Philip Behm

When Reason Falls

It’s hard to do the right thing

  when fate calls your name out loud

 

Where not only the bad get punished

 in its pursuit

 

The world has lost its way

   along the path of least resistance

 

Our ethos dueling the hunger pangs

 of human nature at its root

 

So many have been killed

 in the ageless battle for truth immortal

 

A deadly fight with rules afoul

 that change from night to day

 

The sun though always rising east

 the moon diverts its purpose

 

As reason falls when memory stalls

  —the righteous kept at bay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)