Free To Roam

The mind and body dualist,

his prison for a throne

Confusion reigns where consciousness walks,

where can it find a home

The soul the prize that matters,

the spirit up for grabs

Proximity defining its own lie,

positioning unclad

But somewhere in the distance,

and somewhere heretofore

A laughter lives beyond itself,

escaping its own core

The zero-sum dilemma,

what Sages claim to own

Lay far beyond what’s deep within

—where truth is free to roam

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)