Press play and let the emotional music wash over you as you read. Salute.
(A lone voice whispers)
I dreamt of an extraordinary golden portal
Of entering
A strange shimmering doorway
With its twinkling boundaries
Covered in sparkling black and green diamonds
And streaked grey marble
To reappear
In a dark wood
To this day
I've never seen
And a striking lady
Dressed from head to toe in white
With a vivid red headdress
Appeared like a beautiful dark-haired siren
In the middle of that total solitude
Announcing her presence
With the accompanying moonlight
She stood proudly
Emanating a sense of freedom from involuntary servitude
With luscious inviting red lips and mesmerising blue eyes
And within that
Woodland glade
As she stood proudly
Surrounded by a bright silver and opaque light
Amongst the watching audience's of hidden nightingales
Other mesmerised men and women
Summoned just like me
Visitors from through strange portals
Crows and other mysterious creatures
Awaiting her rather exciting tales
She spoke
With such a strength in her voice that declared openly
With a sense of supernatural confidence and clarity
That would never fail
As her eyes looked around
Their stunning blueness highlighted by her white as winters cloak
I once knew you all
Gathered here in another lifetime
From centuries past
So long
Long ago
When you once sacrificed
All you had
When you remembered
You were once mine
Would you now in 2021
Still stand bravely beside me
And sing our eternal song of freedom
For all to hear who come
Beyond all of your new life's consequences or hate crimes
And shamelessly share with me and all others
All your hidden emotions
From the beating treasure chest
Of your innermost desires
Carried and represented like silver nickels and endless dimes
Before your own
Great Golden Bell chimes
To still embrace me
In here
Your Goddess
With a repeated oath to acquiesce
Like you once made
With your last visit
To my secret Astral Woodland Shrine
Many years ago in nineteenth sixty-nine
Will you remember
You were previously anointed in one of my Secretive Temples of Appollo
By one of my bloodlines
As she spoke
Just before I awoke
She looked at me and all the others
Seeming straight in the eyes
All at once
And we exchanged these lasting words of farewell
Telepathically in that surreal swirling flux
With the ringing of this
My golden invocation bell
I now cast a new spell
As this Frankincense rises
To usher in a New Age
Through the use of this ancient well
Of life-changing knowledge
She pointed to a small waterfall with her jewel-encrusted Athame
For you all to drink from
Until you're sated
As you then all walk back home
From whence you came
And then begin to turn The Great Books many unread pages
For now together and evermore
We stand
Soul to soul and
Hand in hand
As before
Everywhere and anywhere you may choose to go
Never to wander alone
Neglected
Never again to be dethroned or
Flagellated
In the envious green eyes of every nation
As we stride towards this Great Old Oak Tree
Nearby
To our preordained sanctuary
To sit amongst the ever-present bluebells
And white, pink, red, and blue daisies
By its Holy Sea
For all the watching
Angels and spirits
To our reunion
See
Risking spiritual utlegation and all outward tales of temptation
For what will be
Will have to be
So mote it be
What says you
Will you still follow
This eternal oracle of Apollo
Like in your past lives
When I blessed and swallowed all your pain and sorrows
Me
A Goddess who sings from beyond the many golden portals
From a place where visitors souls could be slowly hollowed
As they are forever captured and collared
Like a new slave of the Great Reset
Or shall I cancel this dream for the another
One you would rather all forget
Then like a Sorceress in the night
She suddenly disappeared and left
Leaving us all
The other people
Creatures and me
Looking around in total astonishment
But unconsciously whispering
Yes
Copyright John Duffy
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