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Enough

I’m young enough

and old enough

 

And smart enough

and dumb enough

 

And rich enough

and poor enough

 

To laugh enough

and cry enough

 

But fast enough

and slow enough

 

To guess enough

and know enough

 

To take enough

and give enough

 

To think enough

—and feel enough

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

 

 

One More Smile

Have I lived long enough,

have I said what I came to say

 

Is my spirit now to rest,

has the toll-way back been paid

 

Have I lived long enough,

being willful, righting wrongs

 

A last heartache twice forgiven

—one more smile before I’m gone

 

(St. David’s Pennsylvania: February, 2020)

La La Land

Disappear into your smart phone,

the world outside is doomed

 

Your few remaining human traits,

have long since left the room

 

Disappear into your smart phone,

all life beyond is lost

 

Your feelings truly virtual,

you’ve paid a mighty cost

 

Disappear into your smart phone,

while others stand beside

 

And just like you they tap their screens,

faint proof that they’re alive

 

Disappear into your smart phone,

as time is winding down

 

All spirit tapped, emotion strapped,

your history lost, unfound

 

Disappear into your smart phone,

that bed you’ve left unmade

 

Your spirit cries as memory dies,

whose LaLa land you crave

 

Disappear into your smart phone,

its power now supreme

 

Your knowledge mapped and future trapped

—your destiny undreamed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)