I LIVE

I live

I despair

but I live

I lose faith

but I live

I stumble on the way

but I live


I know not

what comes next

but I live

my doom or my salvation

but I live

let the One have the last word


but I live





Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.

THE HARD PATH

so much shame

so much regret


don't make such a deal over it

this is the bread of our Communion


the easy will slide down the chute

to whatever perdition they've earned


the rest of us took the hard path

and wonder exactly what the love of God is....






Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.

I STILL HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR

you dawg


you live to do mischief to me


luckily for you

I still have a sense of humor


and even if I still didn't get it


I'd know something would have


an impact on me and you who haunt

will indeed know how powerless you are


to stop me from my way out when

all you have will be nothing but the rubble


of whatever notion led you to this

tangle of aspiration and disappointment


as with you so with me


I too thought I would waltz into transcendence





Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.

VISION BEING MADE TO MATCH REALITY

easy to be led astray

just think for yourself

and see where

you end up and how


just because something

is meant to be

doesn't mean it will work out

as you expect


yes visualize all you wish

and be true to your vision

such as it may be

but yours is not the last word


and if the gold you were expecting

is like dross let it go and be steady for the next try....





Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.

SEE EVERYTHING GO

so sorry to see everything go

what I possess is mine alone


but its substance is shared

its essence making us one


and when what is mine is dispersed

I will be sorry to go anywhere


but I'll wind up wherever

and call it home and keep doing so


until I know for sure it's home





Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.

A LESSON LOST

a lesson lost in the learning


a form I must repeat

casts a westward shadow


in the morning sun of the east

nothing is done yet


nothing is really ready to go

as I try to retain what I would keep


to leave the rest of the burden....






Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.

AN OVERLAY

gray wet mornings


drinking tea at the window


seeing nothing but gray morning

tasting nothing but my dryness


memory so dense and familiar


it no longer enlightens


my life an overlay on this morning

this morning the grounds of my world







Content (c) 2008-2015 Philip Milito.