For the miracle of
a lyrical life
is the recognition
of the pain and strife
in quiet contrition
like a dutiful wife
caught between this world
and the next

complex in her giving
and living besides
with all the philandering
and the lies
Yet sewing the words
for hope deferred
that somehow love
may yet return

In the essence
and yet the absence
of hope unopened
A beautiful expression
of a lesson open-ended
in the mind's eye
and trying the tongue
with a sentence
of sentiments
just begun

Until the chains fall
and light breaks with day
All the heart speaks
carries out an escape
and youth comes alive
and away with the night
finds a new breath
and the pen's
awesome might