One who sleeps

with dreams unwed

—can never divorce the beast

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

 

When an honest man says nothing

—you forever hear his heart

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

A man loses his father

and adulthood begins

Bathwater draining

the baby within

 

A son who is sireless

new destiny’s child

Whose choice is to run

or to stand and beguile

 

Alone with his memories

one image sustains

The voice but a whisper

its spirit reclaimed

 

To carry the title

his lineage holds

A surname retendered

—new history untold

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)

Truth is not an absolute

but an attitude of commitment

Throwing its blanket decidedly

over questioning and doubt

Paying deference to the moment

while blessing its intention

Choices made and choices bade

—verbatim roundabout

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

 

Rejected by parents

forsaken alone

One choice left to make

forever to roam  

 

The cost ever paying

their wages of sin

Steps of abandonment

traipsing within 

 

To beg or to borrow

the future on loan

The price of tomorrow

each moment unknown

 

With fate chasing after

both fortune and shame

A waif born to wander

—in search of a name

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

Crossing a line

to do the right thing

Truth staring back

—the mirror is king

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

Buying tomorrow

one day at a time

Each moment invested

in freedom sublime

The future remortgaged

all lien holders paid

The past earning interest

—on fortune today

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)

All possibility is endless

in time

 

Extending the moment   

—forever defined 

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

Asking for your support

not your agreement

I looked into your eyes

Seeing rejection

your stare blank and cold

our connection was untied

 

Your words became hollow

your touch nondescript

 new distance did we share

Alone while together

the ending in sight

—finality laid bare

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2023)

Damning two lies

with only one truth

Deception remixes

like gin and vermouth

 

Jumping from one

as the other got hot

Port in the storm

where perdition is fraught     

 

Grace in short order

 with blessings denied

Thomas redoubting

 all faith circumscribed  

 

Prevarication

twin sister of pain

The Word caught between them

—trapped to remain

 

(The New Room: July, 2023)