rest

you've done enough damage


let healing be

and healing will be


let love truly forgive

and all will be forgiven


and how strange to find this out

how all this goodness is true


and so many years living with it

and not really seeing it....










Content (c) 2008-2016 Philip Milito.

fellows souls of anguish...

boy where we fools


we thought so much about evil

we wound up making an opening for evil


but souls...we do not have to go on

playing the dummy


we can just (for starters) lift our faces

and open our eyes


and see the good sky that makes

an opening for us










Content (c) 2008-2016 Philip Milito.

you'll be happy where you end up

so will I...that is...where you end up

and where I end up...


no secret to any living soul

it will be the same place

and the same living


but fresh chances

to do it right










Content (c) 2008-2016 Philip Milito.

you're going to have to read something else

I'm going back to work

back to real writing


you'll need some other

romance to read....






Content (c) 2008-2016 Philip Milito.

now what will you do

as your time wraps up

but never as soon as you'd like it?


soon enough all this terror will pass

and you'll find yourself nonplussed

at how brief the time in this life


as you wake up in another and all you know

is that somehow you passed someone familiar






Content (c) 2008-2016 Philip Milito.

all night tossing and turning

worrying about work

worrying about death

worrying about everything

that grew rank

as life slipped away

and still demanded its due

which could no longer be afforded













Content (c) 2008-2016 Philip Milio.

sadly

for the great

that too often

watered-down

homilies

are all that remain

reduced from

his wisdom








Content(c) 2008-2016 Philip Milito.