Jaywalking

How can you teach Poetry,

or breathe for someone else

 

Sharing what your soul has freed,

deep within yourself

 

Can you cross a bridge for others,

its toll not yours to pay

 

Squeezing blood from wounds long healed

—transfusion’s masquerade

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Truth Or Lie

Must God stay beyond

understanding

 

His prophecy to conscript

and confuse

 

Are the Trinity and

Resurrection

 

Both miracles or only

a ruse

 

Building temples to

edification

 

Storing Icons that judge

and decry

 

Is the Bible fictitious

or sacred

 

Is Redemption the truth

—or a lie

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)

Sentenced Glory

Writing…

not the beginning of verse,

but the end

 

Grabbing life by the throat,

the birth of a thought

 —whose story begins

 

Captive together,

they walk word by word

toward the jury

 

Scars and accolades,

joy and strife

—in sentenced glory

 

(Ronald McDonald House: January, 2020)