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Only Hope Some come by it early Some come by it late Some forever waiting Hope — their only fate ******** Vanity Yields Only as virtuous as your opinions Only as prescient as today Only as righteous as vanity yields Only as honest — as honesty prays ********** Alan Freed Remembered ... What better expression or symbol of freedom — than American Rock & Roll ********** Not Without No love without hope No hope without faith No faith without credence No credence — without truth ********** More There’s more to tomorrow than chasing elephants in the mist More to each moment than history enlists There’s more to our joy than lost sorrow can deign And more to the truth than facts — can explain ******** Passage To India Watching myself transit the future and past Lost in the moment transcendent — at last ********* New Verbiage When you walk different You talk different Each step a new high To carry you forward beyond getting by Releasing new verbiage The vowels in command Uplifting your message That strutting — commands ******** Piercing The Moment Hearing myself think Sounds piercing the moment Staking each memory Deep into — my heart ******** To Cover And Hide Reduced to adapt with my life on the run Shade blocks the light my back to the sun Retreat is my cadence to cover and hide A fugitive victim of self — genocide ******** My Lettered Vocation With every mistake the smarter I get Those things that I gift enriching me yet The quietest moments the loudest refrain My lettered vocation — new words to ordain ******** Walking The Divide Between darkness and light truth often hides Betraying its motives to walk the divide Not daylight or shadow it lies in between Our lost indecision and chasing — the dream ******** Song Beatific Silence conscripted Truth to proclaim Verses on high Forever ordain Angels in chorus Cherubs to sing A song beatific Eternity’s — hymn ******** Windows Words be expansive New truth to avow Windows to open Affirming — the now ******** Fouling The Air A pox on the dilettante gilding the weed Fouling the air — each breath that they breathe ******** Evidencia Never explain lost in refrain The meaning inherent — for readers to claim (Dreamsleep: June, 2026)
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