. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Confession of Jacob in Death

Tuesday, August 3, 2021

The Confession of Jacob in Death

(A lone voice whispers)


To the ones who might have needed a bright light to help push back the encroaching darkness


To the ones who might have needed a friend to stand by their side 


In the great stillness as they tried to try to contend with a tragic illness


And strove to build new bridges


To reach unique plateaus where they could mend


To the beautiful ones, I'll never probably see or hear from again


Old friendships

Lovers and all those bound by something between us 


That was previously so metaphysical that it always appeared so endless


Just know this 


You were never truly alone for in all my early morning dreams and late-night prayers 


We still walked hand in hand through all weathers


For all those separated year's together 


For you're still to me so damn precious 


And when God asked me in this great magnificent silence 


I now live within now I'm free from the dark reaches of sin


In this swirling grey for my final confession 


I just said, 


Lord

I hope they who cannot be named will forgive me


For in that old life

I was sometimes so reckless 


And the Lord said,


I forgive you, Jacob 


For you were at one time just human filled with so much moving confusion 


And now in here as you and I look at all your past moments in life


As they are reviewed in a new form of holy communion


You'll eventually realize it's why you sometimes have to walk through your own fire 


So your soul can learn


As all those human weaknesses linked to living with temptation and sin burns 


It is the same with all souls


And it's why I decreed that you be born 


So you can all see the true beauty of love and feel the tragedy of heartbreak before you return


A more pure soul ready to find them once more sometime in the future 


In my Silver City of no end


And again be a new lover or friend


But this time around


Purged of all confusion weaknesses and heartbreak 


So love can help you all find a common ground to stand upon


For that incredible spark, you all once shared 


Will into eternity always live on


Copyright John Duffy 

This echoes of a voice who sometimes visits. 

Salute.

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