Happy Halloween

Bwahaha
It's time for sugar!
Lots of candy
And sweets for the tots.
And fun for the teens
Who remember their youth,
Enjoying a day for costumes
With general delay.

Freedom means you have choices
That you can freely choose.
Freedom comes from knowing Truth
From knowing what is absolutely Right.
Because then you know the outcomes
Of your decisions.
Freedom gives you choice.
But it also gives terrible responsibility.

Piece by Piece

piece by piece
i'm breaking down.
toes ankles hips
and bones

this musical
is running me
into the ground

Sirius

Sirius,
Always half never whole.

The Dog-Star,
Two stars,
Bright,
Locked in a dance for eternity.
Once half now whole.

Always half
Never whole
Always reaching
Never to a goal

Starlight,
Star bright,
First star
I see tonight

One is king
One is queen
But which is which
And who is seen?

Brother brother
Turn and turn
Will he leave?
When will he learn?

Turn turn
And turn again
You see the what
But never the when (end?)

Half is whole
But with his friend
And thus did Johnathan
Meet his end.

Who is John
And who is David?
Who is king?
Always half
Never whole

In the end,
There can only be Cain.

Girl in the Fireplace

He kissed her first.

The man who dared not age.
The man who saved our lives.

As my love and I
Take the slow path
He leaps through our years
Bothering not to show
An hour in his eyes.

She loved him.
She waited for him.

Be he failed to return in time
Watching only her coffin pass by.

He may have kissed her first,
But I kissed her last.

Covering for You

You can't rewind the clock,
Make it go tock tick tock.
You can't give me back the time I lost
But maybe you can pay the cost.

In His Jacket

I look at my hand
And for an instant,
It's his.

But then I remember that
I
Am in his jacket,
Not him.

That he was too warm
And I too cold
So we split the difference.

But now,
His jacket hanging on the way out to my car,
I wonder if he's cold.

Mezuzah

I touched the mezuzah
In the Holocaust museum.

Two days ago.

Why do I still feel it
On my fingertips?

Why can I still feel
The weight of time
And sorrow
And tradition
Brushing up against
The gentle skin?

Passing Period

Go go
No time to drink
No time to breath
No time to think

Keep keep
Your feet in line
Gotta get
To class in time.

She's gone.

Well,
Not quite yet.

But everytime I open
My laptop,
She screams.

And it breaks my heart.

Goodbye,
Loyal machine.
Maybe the Heavenly Geek Squad
of the Big Best Buy in the sky
Take care of you.