Marking Time
Is your humanity held captive
by your intelligence
Does your soul remain imprisoned
for a self-inflicted crime
Are the wishes you made, abandoned,
prisoners of the wind
Is the cell locked deep within you
—on whose walls you mark the time
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2019)
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