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)

No more

a student

My soul

reclaimed

My thoughts

my own

The truth

—regained

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

Never lend your wealth

or nobility to others

What can’t be given must be kept

—till providence comes to claim

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)

Water takes on form

determined by the container

Its main characteristic

forever to move downward

 

An army’s defenses

should act like water

Filling in the empty spaces

of the attacker’s weakness

 

Where mind and spirit meet

darkness turns to daylight

Once you luminate the battlefield 

you can counter at any time

 

When your will pierces

the enemy’s fear and turns it against them

You swallow their spirit

digesting it whole

 

Advancing as one

withdrawing as one

Victory of great consequence

knows no other way

 

Winning flows in torrents

 through the heart of the commander

Whose soldiers fight through strength of hand

—in currents to define

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023)