Lost in the city,

floundering alone

caught on the hook

of an abandoned dream

fighting in vain

against modernity’s pull

living the lie

—of eternity’s pain

 

(The New Room: July, 2021)

Religion a misnomer

whose conscript is God

 

Devotion misguided

—preeminent fraud

 

(Strafford Pennsylvania: July, 2021)

Life is short,

Art is long

 

Words but letters

—in search of song

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Prophetically contextual

—internally Divine

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Tears…

watermarks of a dry tomorrow

Irrigant

—of hope’s despair

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Forty years of turmoil…

the top of the heap

The head of the table,

but nothing has changed

Consensus of endorsement,

accolades of exhaustion

Whose tracks have long faded

—regret in the wind

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

All the young Jews,

all the young Christians,

all the young Muslims,

debt to confuse

 

Abraham crying,

prophesy fading,

hellish debentures

—Heaven to lose

 

(The New Room: July, 2021)

Jello mold converts…

frozen believers

 

Trapped in plain sight,

their freedom to lose

 

Set in the form,

immobile and suspect

 

Hope locked in stillness

—unable to move

 

(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)

Doing more with less,

I cut out the middle

Doing more with less,

all life from within

Doing more with less,

I qualified nothing

Doing more with less

—Nirvana begins

 

(The New Room: July, 2021)