Authenticity,
Does the word ring true
Does it call from the outside
Or the inside of you
Authenticity,
Your voice renewed
Zero-sum once committed
Zero-sum payment due
(Barnes & Noble: Plymouth Meeting Pa: January, 2016)
Authenticity,
Does the word ring true
Does it call from the outside
Or the inside of you
Authenticity,
Your voice renewed
Zero-sum once committed
Zero-sum payment due
(Barnes & Noble: Plymouth Meeting Pa: January, 2016)
Persuader inside me
dark sweetness cajoling
A talisman dangles
—the present foretold
(Las Vegas: January, 2016)
Eat the dessert first,
balance be damned
The icing to start
—your cake to withstand
(Las Vegas-Cheesecake Factory: January, 2016)
Is anyone ever a total fraud
or totally sincere?
Is anyone committed beyond mere space
to a notion fond and dear?
Is anyone ever one hundred percent
with subtraction the rule of the day?
Is anyone better than what they believe
or worse than a mother can pray?
Is anyone ever truly in charge
of that moment that slips through the hand?
Is anyone willing to dance beyond hope
to a melody lost by the band?
Is anyone chosen from those who are not
or entitled to what can’t be earned?
Is anyone welcomed straight into the light
—on a path where all others have turned?
(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)
Mountains are never as grave as the Sea,
great heights with all dangers exposed
But depths that lay sullen, undiscovered, and dark
—hide a nightmare to sailors like me
(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)
The past cried out a dire warning
unlocking you from the moment
“History rules, the die is cast
—the future of your discontent”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
Bubbling up through the surface,
one truth leaches out
Like a word long forbidden,
oft whispered—it shouts
Rising up to the heavens,
its message proclaims
“The eruption has started,
redemption profaned”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)
Physics and Philosophy come together
in what they are not
Cause and causation are different
in the absolute thought
The blocks can be built and ordered
over and over again
But what gives each block tenure and presence
—science only rescinds
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)
‘Forgive Me Stephen Hawking’
Giving form to the structure
—my words are set free
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)
With one foot in the future
and one foot in the past
Eternity hangs between them
—its prescience first and last
(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)