No Escape

time offers

no benefit

and neither 

does age

cherished

memories

bestow no

solution

and reason

has no role

when love

is involved

imagination

is futile

and hope is 

but folly

so truth

endures

and there is 

no escape

 

Cathedral

a solemn place

amidst the strife

majestic spires

draw us near

and once inside

a moving scene

arcs of stone

filtered light

a quiet realm

a safe retreat

though human built

the house of god

religious art

adorns the walls

scattered faithful

lost in prayer

so beautiful and

yet a shrine

to guilt and shame

unleashed by man

 

Illusion

can one leave

what was not there

can one miss

what never was

can one lose

what never held

can one mourn

what never grew

can love be

an illusion  

Roadkill

a gory sight

for all to see

blood and meat

bones and fur

left to rot

in summer's sun

a frozen mass

in winter's chill

an accident

is what they say

unsafe to stop

no time to swerve

a silly choice

before its death

to leave its home

its safe retreat

but what is left

of fields and wood

as humans sprawl

across the land