Living in the present

living in the future

One conflates the other

betrothing joy and hope

Moments breed contentment

from wishes left unclaimed

Tomorrow rules our nightly dreams

— and all today holds dear

 

(The New Room: December, 2023)

 

The world collectively

lost its mind

When fires burned

our vision blind

 

From East to West

and North to South

Insanity

from mouth to mouth

 

The world has finally

woken up

Pundits quartered

their lies corrupt

 

Mobbed together

they screamed on high

But run for cover

—as truth decries

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Covered deep in

Poison Ivy

A rash that spreads

and burns

 

Its toxic mass

left festering

With younger minds

to churn

 

What used to be

a noble cause

Malingers

in disease

 

Whose vines grow wild

to trap the dark …

That once were climbed

—to free

 

(The New Room: December, 2023)

Who among us

will write at the end

 

Who among us

the last to contend

 

Who among us

will capture goodbye

 

Who among us

won’t wither then die

 

Who among us

will stare it all down

 

Who among us

our destiny found

 

Who among us

will proffer the word

 

Who among us

demand to be heard

 

Who among us

will write the last song

 

Who among us

—will bridge the beyond

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Busted Flat …

 

Poetic busking

the white lines advancing

 

A voice on the asphalt

the rubber — the road

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

 

 

 

The Heaviest Silence

 

Oh, to be cursed

with the burden of truth

 

Without the propensity

—to speak it out loud

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

 

 

 

Shave the devil naked

get that tail between his legs

Leave him bald and impotent

all passion left in dregs

 

Fleece this vile pestilence

in the flames his fate ensnared

Shear what he embraces most

— temptations curse laid bare

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

A laughingstock of history …

America right now

Fifty years of turning left

leading further down

 

Words alone can’t fix it

so little time remains

Freedom anything but free

—with liberty in flames

 

(The New Room: December, 2023)

If your heart

stops

Does consciousness

die

What life

connected

Can

death untie

Forever

a concept

As still

unproved

No one

to comment

Who’s left

—the room

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)

Religion

is the death of God

conscripting Him away

 

Cloaked in false

propriety

enlightenment at bay

 

Religion

is the death of God

scriptures to mislead

 

All piety

a false disguise

worshipping the creed

 

Religion

is the death of God

whose armies rage and burn

 

Killing

in the name of One

—whose love they claim to yearn

 

(The New Room: December, 2023)

 

The tension between

two disparate answers

 

Reinvents the question

—rebirthing the truth

 

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)