With distance in his voice,

he traveled on the wind

 

Guitar case for a saddle,

to ride each beckoning whim

 

A folk tale left untethered,

his melody to claim

 

Each song an affirmation

—his legend to refrain

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Paying the price for a life ill lived,

my spirit torn and scarred

 

Those things undone, weigh heavy now,

old choices prey and mar

 

I thought the past behind me sure,

alas, naivete

 

Each memory loose to track and hunt

—tomorrow’s yesterday

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Moments of clarity stop the clock,

but time rolls on and on

 

Unrecorded, to stay embedded

in each wish unfulfilled

 

Tranquilizing the fleeting doubt

that truancy sets free

 

Returning with the future claimed

—to liberate the past

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Markets are strong

as bridges crumble

 

Dividends fly

while highways collapse

 

Earnings per share

define false adoration

 

Gift wrapping burns

—on the last empty box

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020) 

Sitting neither left nor right

but on the different side of things

 

Polarity drifts off

like the ending note in a forgotten song

 

The past and future saying 

one final and lasting goodbye

 

As time becomes a wandering orphan

—and the moment set free

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020) 

Those who betray their dreams

are forever old

 

Living between denial

—and what might have been

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Will you be the hero

within your own story

 

Will you marry the present,

dating the future and past

 

Will your legacy document

your truest intention

 

Or falsely imply

words abandoned—unheard

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

Science…

explaining away the magic

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

With nothing to offer

but my own confusion,

I wandered through the night

 

Holding you close

while letting you go,

a darker prophecy claimed the light

 

The end came too soon,

the beginning was dead,

all connection torn and lost

 

In the distance to cast

our last lot to goodbye,

redemption—the true cost

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Redefining the past

for tomorrow

 

Memory’s promise

—reimagined again

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)