Do you hear me?
I speak in whispers only to you,
Not out of fear, but out of love.
Do not push away this tender heart.
It longs for nothing but you
And your passionate embrace.
Am I dreaming,
Believing that this can be real
In the face of your rebuke?
I remain eternally hopeful
Offering you my hand and my heart
Until the day that I die.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Destroyer Shiva
Hunts my elusive ego
All to free my soul
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Listen to your heart
Only it can hear your passion
Voracious in its appetite
Even in your parting hour
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Peace, contemplation
Silence of meditation
Nourishing my soul
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Happiness in spite of hardships
Ordinary folks can forget their troubles
Living in joy at least for a little while
ISIS can’t take that away from any of us
Defending those easily criminalized
Always looking for goodness in others
Yuletides spirit will carry us through
Serving us all the days of our lives
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Look within your heart my wayward son
To where your ancestry lies
At gun’s molten barrel the war won’t be won
No matter how hard you might try
Where did your fathers and mothers come from
No doubt from a long distant shore
Once arriving in America their journey’d begun
Facing more than their hopes bargained for
Fiery rhetoric from the ignorant right
Does nothing but insight hate filled fear
Isolating newcomers who fled terrors fight
Disillusioning their wish to be here
It’s amazing how little this nation’s progressed
Seeing prejudice and racism rear their heads
Taking one step forward then two we regress
Giving in to the hate mongers dread
Perhaps it is time we holster our guns
And temper our fork tongued speech
Instead doing what America should have done
Practicing exactly what we preach
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Songs of the Angels
Found in every Christmas carol
Harbingers of peace
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Race, creed or color
We all look for the same thing
A little respect
R – E – S – P – E – C – T
Aretha was always right
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Love and life–precious
Too easily thrown away
By our thoughtlessness
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
From Heaven falls tears
Washing man’s filth from this earth.
Is that not called love?
Could any Father do more
To heal wounds of his children?
He weeps for our souls,
Our loss of humanity
Once gifted to us,
Dismissed in lieu of greed
Yet denied by the greedy.
Is this not our way,
To walk through life in blindness
Avoiding our flaws?
Then in our reckoning hour
We beg for His forgiveness.
How foolish we are
Destroying so many lives
All for bits of gold.
In the end what did this buy,
But a road leading to Hell.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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