EVOLUTION

Life crawled
out of a primal sea
unto a bare desolation
where it found
naught to love but itself
out of its self love
it multiplied and changed
and eons passed
out of this
came all that grows
and crawls and flies
and from this
came man

PRODICAL SON

Your life is yours
to do with
as you please
a table has been set
before you
the fatted calf
is slaughtered
wines flow
in your favor

Go however
if you must
but remember

There shall be
no lamenting

If evil
and wrong find you
and hard times
beget you
come not home
to me as a beggar
for only the lord
shall have mercy

SEA WAIT

Waiting drives
some to drink
some men to madness
words
fists
knives

For a time
the long monotony
is broken

some look
for revenge

On a dark
moonless night
a shuffling of feet
a splash------

Then only
the throbbing of engines
the throbbing of hearts
and over the side
only the phosphorous sea