“Life is so much simpler and real when you are kind
and a lover of all God’s creations, truth, and light…”

“A sunset like rainbow sorbet
Melts its pastel chills of color
Down sleeping bones in dreams…”

“tangled in the hands of time
worn by indefatigable tides
my reckoning was mingled in lies…”

“…time inexorably speeds up
relative to my rising age…”

“I stand at the precipice of forever
where I can freely choose my destiny—”

“one last supermoon
paints cold naked shafts of fall…”

“if your heart is hurting—avoid the machines—
social media, pundits, politicos, reality TV
prophets who mold nations on indignations…”

“I linger in the light
squinting in silver curiosity
exploring the snarled calculus
of this mystifying universe…”

“time is my nemesis
or waves of nirvana
my endless river
flowing downward”

“your digital virtual reality appears as real
or your living reality dissolves into ethers of the virtual…”