Deafening thunder,

cries from down under

 

Voices of silence

—lost in the wind

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2020)

Name dropping success…

a first name basis with failure

 

Hope into the wind,

 heartache on the approaching storm

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2020)

The underside of dawn,

a promise ill remembered

 

Blue Hour turned to black

—as night devours day

 

(C&D Canal: June, 2020)

Are the truly enlightened

able to endorse their success

 

Driven closer to the flame

—where heat blinds to reveal

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

The future calls our name just once,

hello awaits goodbye

 

The past a veil to what’s been learned

—the truth wrapped in a lie

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

The past held victim

to the future

 

Each memory a shackle

in tomorrow’s chain

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

The moments of these days…

the wheat from the chaff

 

Each choice confirmation

—the first from the last

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

The greatest times

are the one’s that surprise us

 

The greatest people

are the one’s who don’t

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

What are we afraid of

if not ourselves

 

What are those shadows

that hover within

 

What do we know

beyond the joy and the pain

 

Where resonant voices

—start over again

 

(H.U.P. May, 2020)

You can’t run away from the ashes
— as their memory burns from within

(June, 2020: University Of Pennsylvania Hospital)