In debt

with a dollar’s

down payment

on lies

 

Veracity

hiding

the truth

in disguise

 

Intentions

repaving

the highway

to hell

 

With blood

on the toll booth

and lye

— in the well

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2025)

 

Refusing to appease the host

while skin and bones hang on

His mind departed, his spirit free

— his words released in song

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2025)

 

The smokescreens

of your mind

The firewall

of your soul

Keeping in

and keeping out

Tomorrow’s child

— and yesterday’s troll

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2025)

Intuition is to reason

as a black hole is to space

 

A cistern of discovery

— changing distance, time, and place

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2018)

The past is written

but doesn’t define

Its history a vault

in yesterday’s mine

 

Tomorrow’s impostor

the thief of today

Stealing new moments

— deception in play

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2025)

 

Truth and Falsity

destiny’s twins

Living together

in virtue or sin

 

Credence once glorified

deceit left in flames

Redemption and virtue

the devil profanes

 

Verity trumps lies

by its very intent

Disclaiming its sibling

 who still unrelents

 

Existence dependent

as prophecy deigns

In mutual exclusion

— like Abel to Cain

 

(Villanova University: November, 2025)

Each new discovery

reborn on the wind

Begotten as time

— neither blames nor forgives

(Tappan Zee Bridge: November, 2025)

Did you go

to the gym

the Poet asked

Or write

weakened

— words untasked

 

Vowels and

consonants

stay unflexed

When verbs

atrophic

— their letters vexed

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2024)

Trapped inside

his mirror

Prevarication

flows

A narcissist

parading

The emperors

— new clothes

 

(Flexing In Brazil: November, 2025)

You say it never mattered 

you say you never cared

You say you never meant it

you say it wasn’t shared

 

You tell me that you’re leaving

the price of love too high

You tell me what you’re taking

— that final last goodbye

 

With sorrow I resent you

with sorrow I decry

With sorrow you brought heartache

with sorrow all your lies

 

Regret will be your suitor

regret to long reside

Regret will be your tour de force

— regret you cannot hide

 

(Dreamsleep: November, 2025)