If Catharsis could speak

(A lone voice whispers)

If you were worth nothing or rich beyond all compare

I would still stand beside you and just try to love you anywhere

If you were scared frightened or just weighed down with life and all its tragically acquired baggage

I would gladly rush in to help you carry your burdens

So you could perhaps better manage

If you were mad heartbroken or just simply sad

I would quickly reach out with empathy overflowing with an electrifying passion

To just embrace you in a hug of complete literary compassion

If you needed some love and light

In the middle of a lifetime

I would just simply appear through inspired lines and prose

To hold you tightly
Simply to remind you

All your feelings of guilt or pain are also mine

If you needed anything profound beyond my care or abilities

I would just try to simply love you through simple or exquisitely structured words

For ours is but a silent union dear reader

Free from physical excesses but entwined and spinning endlessly

Lost in the spiritual cosmos beyond time and space

Serenading our opened third eye

As we ride over the many landscapes of the blue and green

Visiting newer realms unseen as two

Are you ready to pick up that pen phone laptop or tablet

So we can begin?

Copyright John Duffy