Emptiness Reveals

Loneliness arrives for breakfast,

  anxiety for lunch

 

Rejection for my dinner meal,

  desperation left for brunch

 

Passion came and passion went,

  the nighttime thief did steal

 

And darkness all that’s left to bear

  —the emptiness reveals

 

(Dreamsleep: May, 2019)

 

 

 

 

Sleep Well My Love—Goodbye

At the far end of the casket,

 his girlfriend hugged his wife

 

And told her she was sorry,

 that she had tried to steal her life

 

Their tears then ran in unison,

 for a man who loved them both

 

The years they shared now testament,

 to a choice he left unspoke

 

They never met before this day,

 and would never meet again

 

But each knew well the other,

 and they almost felt like friends

 

The mistress left, the children wept,

 and the grandchildren played outside

 

As his wife looked down, saying: “Your hell has passed,

 sleep well my love—goodbye”

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)

How Much Joy

Having everything you need,

  how much richer could you get

 

Feeling everything God given,

  how much luckier even yet

 

Knowing everything presented,

  how much smarter might you be

 

Your life shared with then another

  —how much joy could you foresee

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)

       From ‘The Book Of Prayers’

Wishes Still To Pray

Are they waiting for me patient,

 as I’m caught up in the game

 

Are they counting down the moments,

 till I breathe my last refrain

 

Do they wonder why I dawdle,

 with an opening so wide

 

Do excuses stoop to waddle,

 as my tardiness contrives

 

Is that light beyond my tunnel,

 to burn forever long

 

Is the torch that lights my funeral,

 one to mark and count upon

 

What now keeps me in this moment,

 as new paths have cleared away

 

Is it something that I haven’t said

 —or wishes still to pray

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)