2 S.F.

Why can't I
live up to
My own aspirations,
My own values
Felt so fervently
I'm lost
in my hypocrisy
A stalemate
It's killing me
And misery envelops
What I long for is simplicity
But what I got
So fraught
With my own momentary
Appetites
And changeability
A victim
of my weakness.
ZL

A victim of
Viscissitudes of
My own lack of character
My stillborn soul
won't learn new tricks
(New vices it eats up like candy)
Yearning toward nobility
A glimpsing into Truth
Inspires, but
Day-to-day
Eternity seems boring.

ZL 5/13/06