In The Dark

Education was meant

  to provide the tools

 

Not to build the

  house

 

Colleges wounded by

  ‘enlightened’ fools

 

Where by deception  

  truth has bled out

 

Young minds are

  now lost

 

At a very great

  cost

 

To a system 

  rigged from the start

 

And for grades they will

  kneel

 

With all verity

  concealed

 

Mindlessly searching for their

  next class

     —in the dark

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

Alone In The Twilight

Are those thoughts you put in

  what I once valued more

 

Or would what I put out

  be the end winning score

 

Did I need your ears

  for my voice to become whole

 

Or would I rather them deafened

  words deep in my soul

 

In my twenties your opinion

  carried some weight

 

In my thirties I listened

  but asked you to wait

 

In my forties I turned

  and walked slowly away

 

Now alone in the twilight

  —to carry the day

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

 

Saint Joan

All males undone
by the Lady Son

The trumpets blared
her fire

An Earl first came
her wrath unchained

To Charles
her heart aspired

All kingdom come
to face Lady Son

But to hell
their souls were laid

As her legend grew
and from banners flew

The name Joan
—all hearts to pray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

Unwritten Prisoners

Like spontaneous combustion,

  the words exploded

 

Molten lyrics erupting

  from the great unknown

 

Their only warning…

  trepidation inside the reluctant

  and unsettled heart

 

Their solemn promise…

  to free the unwritten prisoners

  of confusion and doubt

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)

As You Fly

I asked you to remain my student

But you wanted to teach

The balance between us changing

Our past out of reach

I gave what I could to your memory

And you borrowed the rest

Repayment to be due on arrival

 —as you fly from the nest

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania- January, 2019)