The Cost

Those chances I take 
  transfigure my brain

The risk and reward
  metaphysically the same

They rush through my spirit
  all fear on the run

Transformation now total
  —the cost zero-sum

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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