When Reason Falls

It’s hard to do the right thing

  when fate calls your name out loud

 

Where not only the bad get punished

 in its pursuit

 

The world has lost its way

   along the path of least resistance

 

Our ethos dueling the hunger pangs

 of human nature at its root

 

So many have been killed

 in the ageless battle for truth immortal

 

A deadly fight with rules afoul

 that change from night to day

 

The sun though always rising east

 the moon diverts its purpose

 

As reason falls when memory stalls

  —the righteous kept at bay

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)

Memories Of Jim

Little Lord Fauntleroy

  left to devise

 

His future uncertain

  a past once despised

 

Little Lord Fauntleroy

  his choice lies within

 

To do unto others

  or do unto him

 

Little Lord Fauntleroy,

  escape from these walls

 

The lords and new creatures

  —your legacy calls

 

(Memories Of Jim-Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)

His Destiny Wed

In the song of the antelope,

  the Prince heard his Queen

 

Now locked in a convent,

  her beauty unseen

 

The tower still distant,

  its ramparts on guard

 

Just one point of entry

  a hero’s reward

 

The mist in the valley

  her prison unseen

 

Through clouds in the distance

  her pleadings, her screams

 

The miles before him

  twin antlers ahead

 

His future unfolding

  —his destiny wed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)