Persuader inside me

  dark sweetness cajoling

 

A talisman dangles

 —the present foretold

 

(Las Vegas: January, 2016)

Eat the dessert first,

  balance be damned

 

The icing to start

 —your cake to withstand

 

(Las Vegas-Cheesecake Factory: January, 2016)

Is anyone ever a total fraud

  or totally sincere?

 

Is anyone committed beyond mere space

  to a notion fond and dear?

 

Is anyone ever one hundred percent

  with subtraction the rule of the day?

 

Is anyone better than what they believe

  or worse than a mother can pray?

 

Is anyone ever truly in charge

  of that moment that slips through the hand?

 

Is anyone willing to dance beyond hope

  to a melody lost by the band?

 

Is anyone chosen from those who are not

  or entitled to what can’t be earned?

 

Is anyone welcomed straight into the light

 —on a path where all others have turned?

 

(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)

Mountains are never as grave as the Sea,

  great heights with all dangers exposed

 

But depths that lay sullen, undiscovered, and dark

—hide a nightmare to sailors like me

 

(Airplane-Las Vegas To Philadelphia: January, 2016)

The past cried out a dire warning

 unlocking you from the moment

 

“History rules, the die is cast

  —the future of your discontent”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)

Bubbling up through the surface,

 one truth leaches out

 

Like a word long forbidden,

 oft whispered—it shouts

 

Rising up to the heavens,

 its message proclaims

 

“The eruption has started,

  redemption profaned”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2018)

Physics and Philosophy come together

 in what they are not

 

Cause and causation are different

 in the absolute thought

 

The blocks can be built and ordered

 over and over again

 

But what gives each block tenure and presence

 —science only rescinds

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)

 ‘Forgive Me Stephen Hawking’

 

 

Giving form to the structure

 —my words are set free

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)

With one foot in the future

 and one foot in the past

 

Eternity hangs between them

 —its prescience first and last

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)

I caught the Muse having an affair….

 with my banished and cursed darker side

 

I could hear them laughing inside me,

 such lovemaking I cannot abide

 

A tryst most unwelcome though familiar,

  my dreams left abandoned of sleep

 

To kill off the one, I must kill off the other

 —alone in the night where I bleed

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)