. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Mistress of the Shadows

Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Mistress of the Shadows

Are human relationships, still complicated as from the time, humanity began?


Did Lilith bring something controversial to the New World, when she rebelled against Adam?


As written in some old scriptures and books? 


Is she the.................................



The Mistress Of The Shadows


 (A lone mesmerising voice whispers)


Am I the sacred answers you

Still forever just seek


Could I but be your own embodiment 


Of a glorious heaven or a perverse hell


Some say I’m the sweet lullaby dark angels sing


Whilst reading secretive grimoires of my so enticing spells 


Soft sonnets of unforgivable damnation or intense sexual mental pleasures for the soul


Seducing it to lose control 


Am I but the luscious green garden


Everyone wishes to walkthrough


Before they leave this land


To trespass to who knows

In here


One of the glorious hidden fifth kingdoms


We in the know

Just call


She’ol


My weapons have started and ended many

Historical or personal wars


 Am I but the all-consuming sharp knife 


To pierce the hearts and lonely minds of those who just linger lost


Below the long shadows


Just seeking something to reignite their dark desires


Or who fight for the light


I have been called many names


Like the life-force of all living creatures


Untamed or just walking and surviving


Broken


 

Endless ancient woodland groves


Still sing unheard pagan songs to me


In the darkness


For my names are many but only two really remains


I live eternally

You see


Tasked to visit shamefully darkly lit places


Opulent incensed fused palaces of loquacious


Worlds of flesh and physical sin


Bedrooms

Woods and hotel rooms still carry the scent of my many


Visceral soul tainting visits


They all silently pray for my return


For I am but the darkness hiding in


So much light


Holy sustenance your soul needs


To truly feed and breathe


In plain sight


For once you are firmly within my grasp


I will own you for all your remaining


 Days and nights


For once you’ve tasted my sweet wet liquor


And sampled my priceless red wines


I’ll always own you as long as your light flickers


For I am ancient


Born into life with Old Adam and before my successor 


Called Eve


Now just forever stalking you


Within your Gardens of This Ages Creation


I walk through all countries


And my name is still carried


Upon the wet lips of the Seduced


Within every one of these new worlds many ever-growing nations


For I am the glimmer and mysterious shine


Whilst lost in the darkness

And knee-deep in the temptations of the Black Sun


The giver of reconciliation or damnation of the soul


The emotional Sword of Damocles


A knife-edge upon which you may perpetually balance


And unknowingly dance


Do you know my full esoteric name yet


 I'm simply the two edge sword bestowed to all living creatures from so High Above


As they walk through Lifes gate

 

My full esoteric name is simply


Love Hate


Copyright John Duffy

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