To live within the moment,
  and write as love doth now befriend

      “It’s light burning brightest as the
         hours grow short”

The beginning reunited
  with the journey’s end

       “All memory imploding
          on fates retort”

But the window stays open,
  my heart beats faster still

      “The march to freedom
         neither to nor from”

Time enslaved in a final breath
    one last line to say I will

      “The past and future
          left exposed—undone”

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)