One Look

You mortgage the future
  with the currency of time

To buy out your fate
  with more meter and rhyme

But one look through the darkness
  past devil and saint

Explodes your true oneness
  —the moment ordained

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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