(The soft hiss of a burning wick cuts through the quiet dark, accompanied by the low, distant murmur of a crowd fading into stillness)
Across the silent divide between history and eternity, an iconic voice steps out from the shadows of 1963.
Illuminated not by earthly spotlights, but by the sacred glow of the Purple Eternal Flame.
Speaking as an eternal Watchman of the Great-In-Between.
He calls upon humanity to lay down fear, resist the faceless monoliths of greed.
And let peace bloom like a red rose breaking through cold concrete.
The story arc.
This came about in a dream as I watched Politics unfold in America.
It seems to be about his need to help us shape humanity as he watches.
It was based on our conversations, which once shaped his many historical speeches delivered with such empathy and understanding.
It references key areas of his life and, like most of his speeches, ends with hope.
He was such an iconic figure in history, and many might be interested to hear him speak once more.
So here he is.
What would you say if this was your only chance to tell your story to your final audience and loved ones?
(A lone voice whispers)
As I kneel before all watching nations
And many of the world's populations
Illuminated by candle lights instead of spot lights
As the common enemies of mankind, and their spiritual darkness
Swirl and dance within your minds
Will you listen to my voice above all tyranny, poverty, disease
And even war itself
Then lullaby my once beloved name
As you sit still, listen and quietly breathe
Do some of you still dwell in those old memories
Of long-lost salad days before Sixty-Three
When I lived and dreamed everything could be so much better
If I could help so many to truly see
Then take me in lovingly
Once again
Like my own
Strategy of Peace
And with your arms wide-open, hold me real close
As I repeat my New Frontiers
My new report to the watching people
Like in '63
When I could still breathe, filled with no fears
Even though now I sleep
I am reborn sacred and eternal
I am not one of the
Lonely dead
But still one of humanity's cherished pioneers
Standing now in a new circle, so please don’t weep
I no longer daydream
Lost wandering, all alone
Praying for a rendezvous with death
For I have been baptised an eternal Watchman
Amongst many
And I now sit so high
Illuminated and protected by the Purple Eternal Flame
Which burns so bright, within heavenly skies
To catch repugnant secrets
Lies and dark shadows crawling up
The wailing walls of your world’s freedoms
Listen
Today, a war has been declared on the faceless
Monoliths many kingdoms
Like I once said
Long ago
Secrets alive but soon to be welcomed through Arlington’s black and golden gates
Within crimson flames
I sometimes remember those memories from 'Sixty-One
When I spoke too honestly from the heart with wisdom
But to speak truth in that speech
Is that why I was shot with bullets, from all those carefully positioned guns
Now reborn
Though
I will rise forever
Now I am a Watchman
Of the Great In-Between
Here to help you face all the perils
Outcomes and repugnant, devious means
Of all those new or old programs and occult regimes
To help shape the choices that you must now face
To try to help you all
My brothers and sisters of the human race
From in here
I pray you will find a way
To be free through a new
Reconstruction
Not to be seduced by new Administrations
Greed or financial gains
From the great North or the great South
New governments or countries
Filled with secret societies and misdirections
Tonight
Don’t cry and feel the pain of what could have been
Instead, let’s talk about every sphere of human activity and taking
Up the baton
Of individual responsibility
In the face of a common danger
For there is a dark force all around you
All evasive
Beyond any dimension
You can ever see
A dark principality lives
Filled with wantonness, seductive depravity
But in recognising it
The future of humanity
Can be reborn
As a new, renewed call for emancipation survives, and blows its great redemption horn
So a new Camelot can appear
Like the spot where I once stood, in the centre of America
Shining
So brave and bright
It once illuminated all who came into sight
And was called
Our Camelot
There will be great presidents again
More to carry the light
And share the power of
Free speech and freedom of thought
So
Don’t just cry
And feel the pain of my death
For within presidential memories and
Treasured old speeches and
Photographs
I am reborn again and again
Even though now you hear me
As I speak with another’s breath
When my time came
On that fateful day
On November the twenty-second
In 1963
When those cold bullets hit
I still believed in faith and hope
For those things can't be faked and
I always believed in the Lord
The Almighty
In those dark moments in office
Of which there were many
He gave me the courage to make hard decisions
And at the brink of nuclear war
When I thought I had lost the self-belief to cope
Through prayer
I found the courage not to press that red button
And push the envelope
To always try to put people before
Profit and losses
To try to expose those who lie and deceive
He is here with me now
And it’s why I am always so well received
So take in my prayers
Of which I speak on your behalf
As I rest in peace
Underneath your watching eyes
And the soulful wishes of all nations
For I am
Now but a glorious
Being
Living still but
Without earthbound
Limitations
I'm finally
At home with
Jackie and my beloved children
Arabella John-John and dear Patrick
And all my relatives
One day we will all be forever reunited
Like brothers and sisters
Mothers and fathers
And when you too
Finally cross over
My dearest Caroline
We shall meet and embrace on that white finish line
Until then
Just call my spirit
My earthly name
And I'll try to appear
To help revoke all
Your fearful
Reservations or tears
Like a Greek hero
I was reborn many years ago
Into an eternal
Spiritual Civil War
Between the dark and light
But I'm still one of your
True friends from yesteryear
Still
Trying to help you
Find long-lost answers
You might be looking for
In the middle of the night
On that fateful day
In Dallas, Texas
At 12:30 pm
In 1963
On
November the twenty-second
When I heard the Lord call me home
For the last time
As the sounds of gunfire
Echoed all around me
In a nanosecond
I closed my eyes and prayed
For redemption and eternal forgiveness
So
Listen to my last words before I go home
To a new Beals Street
In a new Boston
We are all born with a pure soul
Overflowing with real courage
And you must realise you could all be worldwide agents
For the Lord
Whatever you choose to call him
Just don’t ever be discouraged
You could all be beautiful
Bright Lights sent out to fight against the
Dark
A truly united nation of People
Fighting for salvation
All problems are simply not solved
By silver bullets fired by shiny black guns
Hidden from view
And not all battles are easily won
Within any spiritual war theatres
Or political parks
Where no one has permission
To ever run
Today you all stand on the edge of a new horizon
A new challenge of such global magnitude
And in the belief of justice and righteousness
You must act
For you all live on this beautiful green island
And you must try to change just somebody’s
Attitude
Ask not what you can do for yourself
Alone
Ask what you can do for your society
Your world
To help keep the bright lights of hope
And freedom, shining
There needs to be a greater push for
Universal kindness
So no one has to suffer
With depression or loneliness
In isolation or feeling
Abandoned in silence
All this will not be over in the first one hundred
Dog-eared days filled with improprieties
But I pray
You will all come together to understand and
To stand as one
Never to surrender
To always
Fight The Good Fight
For the monolith and its many secret societies
Are huge
I was assassinated for a reason
A reason that did not die with me
But still lives on
Mutually on the sides of
Darkness and Light
Let my thoughts be the start of a new spring
A new song all nations can sing
A new season to embrace your life
To really start believing
And finding a means
To bring to all the citizens of the world
That most beautiful of five-letter words
Peace
By asking them all
To sacrifice their greed
The seductive drive to compete
And craving things they do not need
So
Peace
Like a red rose
Can grow and bloom
Clawing its way through the concrete
To heal and defeat all fascism and racism
Hidden within every society's
Darkly lit rooms
My old name was
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
But you can all call me Jack
All my closest friends do
I'm just an old soul returning to the world
To speak with you all for a moment
A man who once loved life
Until I was chosen
On that fateful day in
Dallas Texas
When his world stopped
At 12:30 p.m
And his rendezvous with death
Was standing
Like a faceless, smiling jackal
With all his mortal allies
Waiting patiently in the Depository
Or behind a stockade fence
On the grassy knoll
In Dealey Plaza
Hiding in plain sight
Under those blue skies
On that fateful day in
November in 1963
When God came calling
To collect me
And take me away from the pain
When some of you wept
I prayed to the Lord
In that falling rain
To return again
So here I am
To see with my own eyes
If humanity will still try to choose
Freedom
Freedom from the Monolithic entity
And all its well-bought slaves
Who have sold their souls
For money and power
As they earn thousands of dollars per hour
Their payments for chaining you up with false hopes
Man-made diseases
To be then cured by their expensive
Useless vaccines
Starting wars for profit
And more and more national and personal debt
Standing forever in the background
Drinking champagne and smoking expensive fat Cuban cigarettes
All the while watching high up
From their privately owned
Castles parapets
Whilst smiling and
Still lying as the dearly beloved
On TV
Cried and wept
One day
I pray these old chains of corruption and
slavery will burn
So everyone can be free in a new world
Where
Everyone individually takes responsibility
And in doing so
Humanity can eventually learn
Freedom is a universal right
Which just needs to be unfurled
I will pray for you all
(C)
Copyright John Duffy