Fantasia

Are you bigger in your absence
than your presence could command

Is your memory that much stronger
than your being when at hand

Does the legend of your fancy
stretch the truth of what you’d done

The imagined and embellished
—a false legacy becomes

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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