. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Tragic love born in the Seventies.

Friday, July 29, 2022

Tragic love born in the Seventies.


An ode to those who suffered persecution from the judgemental's.

The list is so sad.

So proud things have changed.

Salute.



Press play before you read. Salute.


(A lone soft voice whispers)


Looking for answers in this

The unholy of all blackest pits
filled with bitter but with still sometimes sweet-tasting human emotions

Illuminated by the flickering half glow of this fading miners lantern

Sat by my burning coal fire at four am


I write these few words down for future inspiration 


To encourage me 

Before I flee to try to get through whenever 


I feel the need to subdue the sharp pang of my apotheosis of my only friend


With dangerous malt whiskey 

 

The one who ritually visits who I call Mr Damnation 

 

For to be able to hear you whisper 


So be it again

 

I'd be driven crazy 


As I caress your precious velvety memories like a familiar shadow and admit to that grim-faced shadow of a human

 

My own perpetual stalker 


Who's staring back at me in this faded old black mirror 


Whispering that I should try to carry on

 

As I think back to those happier times with her


When we might have had a chance to be optimistic like so many other cross bearers

 
But just like every third rosy couple 

 

Who met and tried to stay together

While wading knee-deep 
in newly discovered rivers of uncertainty 


Through trial and error 

 

We were tragically pursued by the real broken phoney emotional stirrers 


Those two-faced ones living in painted white houses 


With twitching grey curtains made of out cheap 
lace to hide their judgemental faces

 

Those who deem themselves to be The Beautiful Ones in society 

 

The polished and the preened 


Strutting about with all their treacherous airs and graces


Just to be seen

 

We were unjustly discriminated against by feverish lions 


Those sad losers 
Who deemed our liaison

 

To be tainted and under their covetous judgemental eyes


To be on so many levels


Immorally corrupted and dangerously fragmented 

 

But to you, my beloved Ophelia 

 

Now erroneously judged 

Likened to a corrupt 17th-century museum 


Filled with pagan occult pictures


By a cancel culture fuelled by heathen convictions

 

My soon-to-be obsolete heart still sings 


As it remembers those wild crazy days and passion-filled nights

 

When we stood firm and issued 


All those endless FUs with such excitement and unbreakable rage

 

How we then ran away from Deep Dale


With anything, we could muster and carry

 
Caught a flight North and got married

 

Went to Las Vegas
Booked into The Bellagio 

 

Cruised the Strip and made wild drunken oaths 


To each other that we'd never be tempted to go back

No matter what news or stories we hear


Broadcasted over the TV or radio 

 

I hope tonight 


As I close my eyes for maybe the last time 


As my lifelong friend

Doc Dupont says my last prayers and rites

 

If you didn't know I guess it's time to confess

You were always my life’s 

True one and only 

 

And I truly understand why you left so suddenly to be with them

 

For it's not easy trying to live with the news 


Of both of your parent's sudden deaths

 

Even though after all these years since you've been gone


After visiting your grave every Monday


My heart still skips a beat 


For I know my love channelled 
through my treasured memories 


Will soon
To you flow so damn easily

 

Reuniting you with those incredible few years

 

When we escaped to The Bellagio


And lived together 

For a short while to renew

 

Free from the long reach of The Beautiful Ones 

So peacefully in every way 

 

And now as I reflect


I never knew lonely until I lost you but soon we'll be together


For Manzoni

The Italian novelist and poet appeared one supernatural dark night 


And told me

Everything will be alright


And soon banners carried proudly into the 21st Century will carry your fight


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 



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