The fact that God has survived

 in spite of religion

 

May be his greatest miracle

 —of all

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Memories of memories,

 illusions called the past

 

Their structure self deceptive,

 inside our minds ill cast

 

Memories of uncertainty,

 and memories still to come

 

Embedded in our consciousness

 —this moment zero sum

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Every man dies,

 but not every man lives

 

Embracing his passion

 —eternity bids

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Those most desperate among us,

 must learn to cry alone

 

Themselves regained through tears of pain

 —to mark their pathway home

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

A sudden embarrassment,

 a moment of shame

 

A lifetime remembered

  —in flashbacks of pain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Why start at the beginning

 and not at the end

 

Why is reality nothing

 more than pretend

 

Why are most facts

 at best a mere guess

 

Your order disordered

 —logic a mess

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

 

Speaking through me,

 all choice undone

 

The Muse unseen

 —her voice unsung

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

If the memories in the present

 are of the past

 

And the aspirations of the present

 to the future are cast

 

Then memories aspire

 for only today

 

 The only time extant

   —and all we can say

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

You are two things distinct,

 that exist yet unfurled

 

You as yourself,

 and as part of the world

 

Fundamentally the same,

 but functionally unpaired

 

Your story twice told

 —as you’re here and then there

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)

Is there a fact of the matter

 that can never be disproved

 

Is there an absolute truth

 that all can behoove

 

As sure as we once were

 that the world was flat

 

We’ve transferred to the Big Bang,

 and the beginning of all that

 

Are facts just a servant

 to our spiritual minds

 

To provide order and sequence,

 make things easier to find

 

If one fact truly exists

 above all the rest

 

It’s that facts don’t exist

 —no more and no less

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)