Open Fields

Are you judging from halls

  academic

 

Or from places where words

  cannot hide

 

Are your hours immersed in

  false reference

 

Or in a visceral pursuit

  that defies

 

All bias and excuse

  living tethered

 

In an ivy green mansion

  enthroned

 

While truth and beauty

  run together

 

Through open fields

  —that no pundit has grown

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

Independent Of The Vacuum

Is God an attribute

  of human nature

   —like happiness and anger?

 

Or the result of strong

  feelings and desires

   —like faith and belief?

 

Does he exist outside

  our consciousness

  —with a will to shape and guide?

 

Living independent

  of the vacuum

   —this world creates?

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

Do You?

Do you bore yourself?

 

Do you rent the space

You’re standing in

Owning nothing

But default?

 

Do you recycle words

Until their utterance fails

Mistrusting your ability

To judge what’s right?

 

Do you hedge your bets

Never going all in

For fear of losing the very thing

You haven’t got?

 

Do you count the days

As tedium destroys spontaneity

And all energy drains

From your lifeless form?

 

Do you bore yourself?

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)