The Masque

Every book has a hundred messages
  trying to get out

Every song has ten inside of it
  waiting to sing loud

Every painting has a hidden image
   fighting to be shown

And every poem has a secret voice
   —dying to be known

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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