Where do those lives go

when a cat doesn’t use them

Where do memories go

when no one can recall

Where do wishes go

when hope is abandoned

Where do lovers go

—when the love is gone

 

(Dreamsleep: June, 2022)

 

Expect good things

the moment breathes

Your fear abandoned

the darkness leaves

 

When least expected

the current calls

Tomorrow waiting

—beyond the falls

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)

Reality pregnant

gestation released

Facts have been fathered

new mothers beseeched

 

The door to tomorrow

swings only one way

Birthing conception

—redemption belayed

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2022)

What, who, or where

 the sages portend

 

What, who, or where

the shamans belie

 

What, who, or where

 the scholars defend

 

What, who, or where

—not questioning why

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)

 

The only time we escape

the jungle

—is in self delusion

(State College Pennsylvania: November, 1970)

Through a distant awareness

all eyes unmasked

The answers vacant

and fading fast

 

The horizon changes

from front to back

All reasons caught

within its trap

 

Time despondent

its seconds tear

Whose reign dethroned

inception near

 

The weight uprooted 

a seedless fruit

The past, tomorrow

—and present moot

 

(Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: November, 2022)

 

The older the prophecy

—the more desperate we hang on

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)

To live non-affirming

to live not at all

To hide in the shadows

and creep down the hall

 

To live uncommitted

new doubts to contend

All time intermittent

repressed till the end

 

To live without friendship

alone on the rock

A wandering echo

reflections that mock

 

To live undecided

with doubt your best friend

a future derided

—the present pretend

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)

Death was invented

when life tired of the living

Eternity flexing

—the muscles of time

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)

Tomorrow’s lullaby

in footnotes to Dylan

Tomorrow blistering

confronting the sun

 

Tomorrow lingering

while calling your name

Temptation disguising

what’s never to come

 

Tomorrow’s redemption

the present to ransom

Tomorrow in voices

a chorus of ghosts

 

Tomorrow forgiving

each sin of unmaking

Tormenting each moment

—you treasure the most

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)