Don't tell me I've time
When we both know full well
It's time that has me!

INDEBTEDNESS

Because you did not hesitate to give
Your heart and soul wholeheartedly to me,
Because you helped to keep my dreams alive,
And were wherever you had need to be,

I shall remember everything you said
And everything you did on my behalf,
It will remain for me the fountainhead
And be my beating heart’s oscillograph.

And reaching back across the passing years
Of trials and sufferings and loss untold,
I’ll not forget how well you stilled my fears,
A willing prisoner to your stranglehold.

If words are inadequate,
enjoy the bliss of silence.

I finally got
what I had for so long sought.
And did not want it.

What a pity
there's no vaccine
for stupidity!

Neurotics talk to their analysts,
Sinners talk to their priests
Hypochondriacs visit their doctors
Writers write.

Vandalism should be unfulfilled.
What a fool may destroy in an instant
Ten wise men may need a lifetime to rebuild.