Wafting in the unmistakable scent

of poor choices

Grifting in the prodigal valley

of mistakes

Loitering in the tenement

of false witness

Wandering along the highway

—of forgotten dreams

 

(Dreamsleep: September, 2023)

There’s no greater distance

—than closeness lost

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

 

#8 in a historical fiction series I started 15 years ago.

Bending a breaking point

rupturing time

Eons of history

skirting the line

 

Paradox native

our true D.N.A.

Truth as a concept

forever in play

 

Yessing and noing   

transfixed in between

The jester in transit

all canons demeaned

 

Freeing the moment

 the first wedded last

a twist to the turning

—where memory contrasts

 

(Septa R5 To 30^th Street: August, 2023)

What do the years mean

when they come to an end

their number a prison

if hearts cannot mend

 

A month or a decade

results but the same

when love is abandoned

—there’s nothing but pain

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

 

Life …

changes color

when twilight returns

Darkness

a palette

remixing your doubt

Stars

 a backdrop

canvassed with unknowing

Rainbows

left truant

—moon shadows about

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

A demon’s playing

but no one’s listening

Black whirlwind coming

tomorrow hissing

 

The moment christened

in dark despair

Entrapping vision

beyond repair

 

A mantra chanting

its rhythm waning

Despoiled virtue

with time refraining

 

Unmasking Hoder

in blind respite

The god of darkness

—and lost delight

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

The only thing

we can be sure of

is death

 

The only one

we truly know

is ourself

 

Every time

a moment’s lost

a memory’s gained

 

Every time

creation mourns

—tomorrow cries  

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

Is most of your life spent

alone in the dark

Hiding from rainbows

in colorless spite

The sun waits a mistress

the evening a whore

That paid by the hour

exposes your blight

 

Professing in earnest

those things you don’t know

Whose pontification

a mask that conceals

What others see clearly

fate not to deceive

Delusion and bluster

—your folly revealed

 

(Dreamsleep: August, 2023)

The closer we get

to Godlike

the more welcome

death will be

 

Returning home

no longer

alone

—the answer question free

 

(First Book Of Prayers: August, 2023)