AIDS – Not A Love Story

In the incurability of a contagion What crosses the bridge of two bodies in an entente of bliss And lingers in silence and punity Where the vigor of being fades to the trickle of time And vitality is tapped from a bough of life In the colonization of a gamut of blood cells A state …

Pearl Harbor

In the shadow  Of what was stormed and plundered And the legacies that were set adrift and buried Beneath the veneer of the Pacific Was the indomitability of human spirit In pockets of resistance Where amidst the farewell of souls Rested unwounded courage Salted in time

Nativity Story

In an undefined realm  In the bewilderment of the unknown In a humble manger in the outskirts of Bethlehem The miracle of the purest of love Bore from an untouched womb To touch the cradle of mankind In one woman's courage And one man's faith

A Christmas Gift

In a gift that bridges one heart to another Where spirals and tendrils of ribbon And sheaths of wrapping paper Are cross-laced in a patchwork of holly green and berry red Infusing the curious heart with an ounce of anticipation Where beyond the reciprocation of the tangibility of love In the ephermerality of season Rests …