Press play before reading. Salute.
(A lone voice whispers)
When I sometimes sit quietly still in here
By the window in our once favourite cafe in the old country
By the old Wishing Pond
I always remember
How I once said all those poignant lines as we talked and walked together
In the plummeting snow and rain
In such terrible weather on that extraordinary day
In that unusually brutal winter season
Way back in late November
Thirteen years ago in two thousand and eight
When I whispered that if anything takes place in this lifetime
Between you and I and we tragically lose our way
While we're still both alive and co-joined at the hips
If the Tall Man should arrive unexpectedly and try to take one of us home
Suddenly without any regal announcements or real reasons
Let's pledge a sacred oath to each other with the utmost rage
That we'll wait wherever we are
Forever empowered by a god-given hope
To keep believing that the other will catch up in the Light
No matter how long it takes
Or even if they have to travel so far with no hope in sight
To beyond even all the known watching stars
In an endless night
Filled with the steadfast courage
That no matter how many strange doors
They might have to knock on to demand to be opened
Or to put their gilded keys in
They'll try to find a way we can embrace and hold hands again
So our love can once more bloom and flourish
For ours is something so unique and special
A once-in-a-billion lifetimes of being constantly reborn
Whatever the circumstance
To eventually realise that the true meaning of life
A life-changing revelation beyond the norm
Lies in the soft arms of something so unique
Many wise prophets still call it by its favourite ancient and well-spoken name
Once known as Ki-Ag2
Even today
Known as simply true romance
I once swore
I'd never leave your side and you swore even upon your death
You'd never leave mine
And as we spoke to the watching universe and dreamed as we walked and talked
About how someday in the near future
We'd sit outside on our own marble porch
And in the fall of the Twilight
Smile as we counted our lifelong blessings
Before we'd eventually retire for an early night
In our own paid-for house filled with so much love and our two beloved grown-up children
Lucy and Peter
But like most of the preordained lovers in history
Our dreams ended up so differently
You went first
Only last year though
So I'll always be searching for you if only you'll wait for me
For we'll both instinctively know which of all those sacred doors before us
In Paradiso
To seek out and open up
For our true love has been forever shaped into golden keys to always let us in
So our once mortal true love
Can in new rivers
Swim
To sit in a fresh cafe and sing songs filled with our old melody
So I'm no longer filled with jealously that the Tall Man has you
And all I've got to cling onto are these painful sad memories
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Image from Pinterest.
Shared under fair usage policy.
No comments:
Post a Comment