The Doorway to Love

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Salute.

I stood listening all alone as

I heard you calling my name

In the never-ending falling rain

I saw a familiar doorway appear

A shimmering watery essence

Undulated upon it's

Glistening wet surface

And through its ethereal window

I saw you standing there

Dressed in white

On some faraway green hills

My soul reached out and

Entered your mind’s eye

I saw all those visions

All the happy ones and

The sad ones

When you cried alone

As your soul pined

For someone to love

And somewhere to fill with all your

Love and

Call

My happy home

I saw all those little moments

You searched and

All the sad moments

You got burnt

I’ve always seen you

My Crow Haired Warrior Princess

For

I’ve always been nearby

Just hidden

Somewhere in the wild.

In my dreams

I sometimes have stepped through

My invocation

My Doorway

To you and held your hand

In the dark

Mother Mary

Always said

She who waits

Will appear before you

In a water-filled doorway

I watched you marry,

Unmarry

But still pressed

On

Still, I came

Just after you slept

And trailed my fingertips

Across your arms and

Wiped away all those wet

Tears you once wept

I

Saw you close the Red Door and

Told Mother Love

Don’t visit me any more

But in your deepest of dreams

I still lingered

Like a lonely orphan

Waiting for the day

Like the song 

Sung by

Jeff Carson

"Scars and All"

And one day to my surprise

To my shock and my awe

You found me

Looking at your

Shimmering form

Through that glistening

Watery

Doorway

My Warrior Princess

We now walk hand in hand

Through this world

And sometimes beyond

Sharing stories

In the midnight hour

Wetting our libidos

By igniting

Our sinful pyres

Is this a dream

Or was Mother Mary

Right?

She who waits

Will appear before you

In a water-filled doorway

We have never met in the flesh

In this version of our lives

But to each other’s souls

We feel the freedom 

And emancipation to

Willingly confess

You called out my name

A lifetime ago

This

I know as

I’ve been told

You came before me

So says the Lord

You may be younger than me

But your soul

To mine is the one who is

Older

Keep calling out my name

Like a treasured prayer in the 

Four winds

From that green hill

Where I always see you

Dressed all in white

For this dream

Will never die

The reflection of your face

Will never fade from my bright

Hazel eyes

Call me tonight and as the

Doorway opens

Your heart won't forget

When I hold you

And when the time

Comes

When I take my last breath

Know that my heart loves you with a love

That is stronger than death

And I'll be forever waiting

On the other side of that

Glistening undulating

Doorway

Waiting for you to

Call my name

For I'm always in

Here

Just waiting

Standing

Forever getting wet

In the never-ending falling rain.

Copyright John Duffy 2019