Those who betray their dreams

are forever old

 

Living between denial

—and what might have been

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Will you be the hero

within your own story

 

Will you marry the present,

dating the future and past

 

Will your legacy document

your truest intention

 

Or falsely imply

words abandoned—unheard

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

Science…

explaining away the magic

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

With nothing to offer

but my own confusion,

I wandered through the night

 

Holding you close

while letting you go,

a darker prophecy claimed the light

 

The end came too soon,

the beginning was dead,

all connection torn and lost

 

In the distance to cast

our last lot to goodbye,

redemption—the true cost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Redefining the past

for tomorrow

 

Memory’s promise

—reimagined again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Deafening thunder,

cries from down under

 

Voices of silence

—lost in the wind

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Name dropping success…

a first name basis with failure

 

Hope into the wind,

 heartache on the approaching storm

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2020)

The underside of dawn,

a promise ill remembered

 

Blue Hour turned to black

—as night devours day

 

(C&D Canal: June, 2020)

Are the truly enlightened

able to endorse their success

 

Driven closer to the flame

—where heat blinds to reveal

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

The future calls our name just once,

hello awaits goodbye

 

The past a veil to what’s been learned

—the truth wrapped in a lie

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)