That Space Inside

Leaving room

  for the reader

  to grow within

  what you write

  insures immortality

  connecting your words

  permanently to their

  feelings

  creating a home

  where the meaning

    —can live

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: Watching The Eagles 3-Hour Documentary: June, 2016)

The Enemy Upon Us

Get caught in the dialectic

  before the day is late

 

Don’t wait for an invitation

  as they slowly shut the gate

 

The wolf now dressed in spun wool

  has broken from his cage

 

He hungers more for what we’ve lost

  an ignorance of rage

 

A traitor lurks in front of us

  to vanquish and to quell

 

But time that stops for no one man

  the assassin pledged to hell

 

The moment to act upon us

  the odds both long and wide

 

A battle still worth fighting

    for those before who thought and died

 

So if truth’s your greatest weapon

  wield it willingly and free

 

The enemy is upon us

  —and must leave on bended knee

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)