You hate in your enemy

  —what you most love in yourself

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

As natural and necessary

 as breathing

   —I write

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Who declared politics

 a zero-sum sport

 

Where stadium’s freeze

 and statesmen abort

 

That last final moment

 in a sudden death game

 

With truth as the loser

 —forever in shame

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Poetry…

the marriage of raw emotion

 —and unbridled thought

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2016)

It takes from your body,

  as it steals from your spirit

 

Hope its main victim

  —promised future unseen

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2016)

 

What was created to expose,

  now a fortress meant to hide

 

Bastions of higher learning,

  masking havens safe for lies

 

Where discourse once was treasured,

  the ivy droops and sighs

 

With comfort their true measure,

  the dilettantes all cry

 

Plato is disgusted,

  John Locke is more than riled

 

As a millennium of learning

  is mocked in false denial

 

Students weak and wounded,

  from those lessons never learned

 

Their tomorrow’s but a doomsday,

  their futures sure to burn

 

Those words were there to save them,

  both the hated and revered

 

All truth in dialectics

   —left abandoned by their fear

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2016)

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  he could now remember his name

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  his medicine kicked in once again

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  he knew his daughter by her face

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  he was now back home in his space

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  his dog was closely by his side

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  his eyes though saddened, opened wide

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  her voice unwrapped a precious gift

 

Through the keyhole darkly

  a love once anchored, set adrift

 

Through the keyhole darkly,

  he felt the light begin to dim

 

Through the keyhole darkly

  his markers fade, his reference thin

 

Through the keyhole darkly

  the killer thief arrives once more

 

Through the keyhole darkly

  all loss of self—a closing door

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2016)

Poetry…

 the key to Cosmology

 

A question for every answer

  —in search of itself

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

 

 

Bury what you can with words

 —and remember the rest

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

There are those who write poetically,

 and there are Poets

 

Eternity balances

  —on the difference

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)