There is such a thing as morality.
Its proof is evident in guilt.


-  Hadrian Veska

The heart;
in all of it's tragic
cocksure
glory,
is nothing
but a victim.

He wanted something
easier than you.
That is not to say
you are a challenge
or that she is cheap,
rather, that he is weak.

You can say or you can do, but not both.
That is why wise men speak so little.


- Hadrian Veska

being
a good person
when you don't want to be
good
is easier
than being mean
even though
your blood is
boiling

Poetry is more than words,
  some is written—some is heard

Often long—yet sometimes short,
  its power shared in strong retort

Questions cry—demanding verse,
with feelings new, still unrehearsed

Its focus like a laser aims,
  at souls that search—time and again

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)

In youth,
  my writing slaved beneath my leisure

To answer questions
  only when the pen aroused

But as grayness enters now
  on a near horizon

New feelings past my age emerge,
  —beyond my doubt

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 1977)