At the

Event Horizon

‘No Exit’

leading in

Front to back

side to side

entropic

rim to rim

A blacker hole

a deeper truth

beyond just

right or wrong

Light imprisoned

no way out

entrapping

—weak and strong

(Villanova University: December, 2023)

The further out your writing goes

—the further in you are

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Love fades away

life goes on

Music divorcing

 words to a song

 

Into the darkness

into the night

Melody orphaned

absent the light

 

Love fades away

time stands still

Harmonies vagrant

 memories chill

 

Voices celestial

echo alone

Love once abeyant

—life is disowned

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

A moment of truth

a century of lies

The left hand deflects

what the right hand decries   

 

A little bit pregnant

the ending begins

A monster gestating

—and living within

 

(The New Room: December, 2023)

 

You can’t embrace

the moment forever

whose verity

at essence ungrained

 

By definition

it must rename itself

once mentioned

decried and disclaimed

 

What came upon you

to die in place

where vacuums exit

in time and space

 

Regenerating

from life’s cocoon

and starting over

—Amayasvan moon

 

(The New Room: December, 2023)

Geometrically

Progressing

Each Day

Valued more

The closer

The end

The sweeter

The lure 

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

Dirty water

washes away

poetic indifference

 

Leaving the stain

of what will be

—on what forever might have been

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Putting God

into human terms

that we can understand

Obverts the beauty

concepts like the Trinity

command

Within our souls

within our hearts

the key to something more

Crossing over

on Heaven’s light bridge

—Beatific pure

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

Kill one man

and you go

to the gallows

Kill one hundred

and you’re lauded

a hero

Intention like rain

falls on

mountain and plain

The one

flowing downward

—the other to drain

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

 

Is there room

in your ignorance

for truth to creep in

 

Are the doors

closed and locked

from inside and within

 

Will the light

truly gifted

pass over and by

 

Is your meadow

a wasteland

—and haven for lies

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)