Are you an Outlier?

 Are you an Outlier?

A person who stands apart from others of his or her group, as by differing behaviour or beliefs?

Press play and let the music wash over you as you read. Salute.

(A lone voice whispers)

A long time ago

With some

Blindfolded or

Tied to old green

Wooden stakes

Because they loved to stone

Or just burn us

Just because they thought we were different

Since they lived in an unseen primitive world

Overflowing with such

shameless ignorance

We who once danced to Old Mother Moon

Or just under

The mystical Sun

Maybe

In our own woodland grove

Or simply around

Luminous fires

On secretive moors

As the cycle's of the world

Slowly

Ebbed and Flowed

Always staying hidden from all

On the mainlands

Busy main roads

We the old

Or new Poets

Pioneers

Painters 

Artists

Singers

Filmmakers

Herbalists

Music makers

Authors

Famous or still unknown

But yet brave enough to stand courageously

In front of all the charlatans and haters

We are all still

Representations of

The Old Seducers of the mind

For we are all

World shakers

We who have always walked

All those strange roads

Wherever our

Fate took us

And today 

We are all reborn

But now unafraid

To live our true way

For all our ancient ancestors now just 

Live within

Us

Just leading us forward

Is there a light

Within you too

A light

A strange beacon which is always lit

No matter how you feel

A need to write

Sing or produce something

Using all those all remembered God-given talents

Without the need for fake approvals or the old or new matrix's work permits

To truly seduce minds

To help others purge all those emotions

Which

Around us all

Still ebbs and flows

For we are all human

And so baptised and anointed by invisible hands to feel

Did you once with strength and conviction

Willingly kneel

To be thankful you were blessed before Apollo's metaphorical altar

The mythical God of

Music, Dance, Truth and Prophecy.

Healing, the Sun and Light.

Poetry, and so much more

To then stand unafraid before all to see

As you bravely whispered

All these gifts I truly adore so Blessed Be

Copyright John Duffy