Outside the mind

they’re no universals

Conflation and trend

— humanity’s bane

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

“If you spend half your time

trying to change human nature

You’ll spend the other half

 being disappointed”

 

If you spend half your time

waiting for someone to love

You’ll spend the other half

waiting to die

 

If you spend half your time

questioning the truth in the answers

You’ll spend the other half

missing the point

 

If you spend half your time

following the tracks of another

You’ll spend the other half

— wondering why

 

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

No longer a teacher

a programmer …

your gift to persuade

is gone

 

Referring to students

as charges and dolts

your power to control

is strong

 

To dictate

humanity

you must give up your own

controlled to then control

 

Blind to the moment

deaf to the past

defaming your nature

 — killing your soul

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

Modernity

damns judgment

its prophets

seen as hostile

 

As the soulless

watch and covet

like a eunuch

envies man

 

What’s needed

is more judgment

and critique

to moral order

 

The essence

of humanity

 what the soulless

try to ban

 

Irrational impulses

driving them

to lives of

dark infliction

 

Forcing them

to claim the world

in ‘natures’

— evil plan

 

(Reading C.S. Lewis: October, 2024)

 

Judging opinions

by their age

proscriptions

lie in wait

 

Consensus stained

with fear and guilt

folly

overstates

 

Knowledge of others

unknown to self

deception points

one way

 

Value weighed

in layers of dust

the truth held

—far at bay

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

Nowhere

ain’t nowhere

when it’s where

— you belong

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

 

Conscripting my dreams

attacking my doubts

 

Each wish is a soldier

whose loyalty shouts

 

Enlisting new feelings

with hope as my guide

 

A liege to the future

— where time will abide

 

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

Holding on tight

to each moment before

 

The test results come

forever unsure

 

Reprieved for a day

condition unchanged

 

“Your numbers are stable

— but cancer remains”

 

 

(Ronald McDonald House: Phila. Pa, October, 2024)

Someone

 lost in a meandering season

 

Somebody

crying for all the wrong reasons

 

Somehow

married to a new in between

 

Someway

missing what others have seen

 

Someplace

the meaning stays hidden and waits

 

Sometimes

my wishes both early and late

 

Something

infused in the moments I’ve lost

 

Somewhere

abandoned — the ultimate cost

 

 

(Dreamsleep: October, 2024)

 

Angel of the streets

demon in the fortress

Darkness hides the garden

Grace a fallen wish

 

Voices in the alley

pleadings last communion

Wings that fight to open

— fire on the wind

 

(The New Room: October, 2024)