. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Man who talked to Butterflies

Sunday, August 7, 2022

The Man who talked to Butterflies

  


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(A lone voice whispers. Lost in deep reflection. Musing in the throes of spiritual introspection - to a butterfly)





And so it rained outside and even inside

For what seemed like forty days and forty nights



As I wandered lost in that yellow lonely deserted

Judean Desert
Alone




When the hard times and the whispering low vibrational voices came


On the Mount of Temptation



Fluctuating between mild and wild feelings
Intermixing with the sound of falling rain in the distance



Then peaking to unknown or unexplored heights of demoralising anxiety with no limits or resistance


To finally merge together to twirl their silver big band batons high



As they danced in absolute unrestricted low vibrational ecstasy

Underneath that grinning red sky



Unfurling

All the hidden memories and opaque trophies of troubles and strife




Which they summoned from so many others to be returned


Petitions for a means to atone

Twisted and contorted thoughts


Which opened my mind like I was being stabbed like a market robbery victim



With the Devil's sharp knife



But as I knelt and prayed


With my eyes shut thinking about the living masses

Weighed up all the pros and cons


Imaging all the endless happiness



Still to be found within all seemingly sorrowful lives



A vision of a white cross suddenly appeared
And some soft eloquently spoken words

Echoed throughout my ears



Do not be scared of this life and all its many fears

Do not be scared to shed some sad tears for yourself or others



The happy days are soon to come



Keep your faith in this voice


Your version of the one true One


For we are many
And we appear everywhere

As in this form
He allows you to still run



For when your time is recalled by your final act in this endless chapter of life


On the cross


So many will be saved and rescued from the mighty fall to Abaddon


The Dark Lands of the Fallen Ones



And so I'll walk on smiling
For I know now
Beyond all doubt



My soon-to-be death in Golgotha would be my ultimate gift to the world

Today and forevermore



So who am I
To dare to be late

When the world I see before me
Needs to be irrevocably changed



From Bethlehem to all the many other bent city gates


For they are all filled with green rivers of jealously



And gushing winds carrying sharp spears of fear and with so many foolishly condemning others



By false accusations
Spreading hate



All I can do is play my role to perfection
If it only saves just one poor soul



What a better way to serve my version of my Holy Father


For I now know to follow which path is my destination Home


The one I have no control over

For all life
Even mine

Reads like a precious whole poem


Just that mine will begin and end in a timeless loop

When I arrive

To stand bravely upright
Before the baying crowds

In Old Golgotha




Thanks for listening
My friend who I'll call

Mary

In the form of a beautiful white butterfly

My mother

Who I can only pray
I'll see once more

Before the day I die


(C)
Copyright John Duffy

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