Only To Remind

You’ve got the how but not the why,

from heaven so ordained

 

For that one moment under God,

times fugitive proclaimed

 

You want to know the reasons past,

but not those left to find

 

A crown of thorns and peasant robe

—serve only to remind

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)

Divinity Chosen

Do three dimensions,

preclude a fourth

 

Does pointing toward South,

prevent being North

 

Is now just the midpoint,

between future and past

 

Does the freedom to choose,

leave all nature aghast

 

Is one and one two,

if one is in doubt

 

Are the whole or its parts,

what this world is about

 

Are Creation and Physics,

at war with themselves

 

Is Divinity chosen

—willed unto one self

 

(Saint David’s Pennsylvania: July, 2019)