Baptised heartbroken
For forty long days and nights
Gathered Dark souls smiled
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Foundation of the piece.
Some mystics say:
Lower vibrational beings feed off humanity's pain and anguish.
What a feast they must - have when they see a new resident of their invisible, Heartbreak Hotel.
Salute.
(A lone voice whispers)
I once found myself
At such a young age
While looking into
The sweet eyes of Another
Until they closed forever
So we couldn't be together.
On the fifteenth of May in 2022
Oh how I miss
The dearly beloved love
Of my mother
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(A lone voice whispers)
Lost between two shimmering portals
By the Palodorian Green Sea
I once looked for the golden light
From the metaphysical tent
Of the golden-haired warrÃor
A beautiful descendants of the spiritually powerful
Cherokee
And saw over dystopian planes of existence
Where she lay
Remembering
The last time we spoke was on the fifth of May
It rained and I could sense she was in pain
So I sent over a red raven letter
In it, I wrote in bright golden letters
Rise up fire girl
And get better
Shine those incredible eyes upon the world
Seize your strength and glory and tell your story
Use poetry
Prose and whatever else but you need to
To cleanse yourself
Today as I light my white candles of peace
And remember a few souls
That I once had the pleasure to know
But no longer grow
I think of her alone in that tent
Surrounded by books by Whitman
Silver and glass
And wonder
Where do we go from here
Can I rekindle a friendship in her darkest hours
Will her heart allow us
If I ask
By a strange coincidence
She sent back a red raven letter
In it
In big letters
Was handwritten in silver ink
Where do we go from here
For I've shed so many wet tears
Been in between the light and dark
Between two almighty powers
Saw things to make your soul sink
And as I look now from my scrying mirror
Through the upside-down AlunaWorld
I can see her smoke from a campfire rising
And deep down inside
I'm just so glad to see that she's still surviving
As I pen my letter but like all complications in life
I'm struggling to find words that still need saying
Before replying
For a silent painful question always cries out
From my soul in fear
A low whisper that says
Has our deep love disappeared
And where do we go from here
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(A lone voice whispers)
When these moonlit clouds part
Like the Red Sea
At midnight
As I stare at the long-lost stars
So far away
I always remember
A heart-stopping recollection
That still binds
When true love
Seemed so simple
Especially now
As memories of you
Light up the dark pools
Of my mind
With all their much-loved ripples
With cherished things I pray, I'll never leave behind
As pictures of warm inviting smiles
Continuously float to the surface
Capturing a time
When love was so trusting and kind
Where we said at our local church
Our much-cherished line
A line I whispered in joy
As I looked over at you
The life-changing two syllables
Called
I do
Time may have tried to rewrite every emotion
But your memories
Will always
Stay enshrined
In all the mysterious inner sanctums
Of my mind
And floating in their many unexplored oceans
Some of the Heartbroken may choose to forget
But I love drowning in the bright lights
Glowing
In those pools of memories
Of our life-changing romance
Getting soaking wet
Remembering extraordinary times
Filled with no regrets
For life sometimes gives us someone special
To hold onto
And I'm just proud
I found you
And took that chance
As life's music played
We've Only Just Begun
By The Carpenters
To slow dance with you
Underneath the Midnight Sun
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(A lone voice whispers)
I hope she still waits
That rebellious wild woman
Of such irreducible taste
Whose aura glistens with incredible glimmer and sublime guile
With stunning bright eyes
That still shines with the illustrious glow
Of that illuminated flame
Which was once stolen
By brave Prometheus
From Heaven's Dark Skies
Enhancing her beautiful face
Making her look like Morgana the Cunning Sorceress
Written about in the Immortal Arthurian Legends
From where all her pagan blood flows
She holds me
You know
Like a lone pawn
Enthralled in a grip of steel
As I try to break down
Her carefully constructed walls
To work out how she feels
When I see her in here
Standing tall
Adorned in Black and Red leather
Within these dark woods
I find myself
Lost in
At the stroke of every midnight
Where we still meet as I stroll
After I lure her away
From so singing eloquently
In her candlelit salt circle
To Mother Moon and ever watching Father Grey Sky
As his white clouds roll
Where she utters strange ancient spells
Unknown to most
As she conquers all
Who dare come into view
Before they can yell
Like me
It's why I still visit
For I can never leave
For I'm just hypnotised
And invoked like another lonely fool
To be
Deceived forever
By the delicious sounds
Of her golden ringing
Summoning bells
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Life isn't all smiles and sweet chocolates
My beloved Justine
For to die a poet like me
Spreading my stories
Like visceral steam from The Great In-Between
Is to know
Living a Life
Filled with different levels of emotional disarray
Was worth it
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(A lone voice whispers)
Wiping away some of these painful tears
While looking up at this blue sky
To all my watching invisible fans
As the Black Birds play
In this neverending vision of
Fools Paradise
I guess I'm still filled with some unexplored fears
Fears
That I never threw the dice
And never took a chance
To ask you
To come home as my wife
Where it could have been so nice
I just tell myself now
To smile
When I think of how that simple act of self-sacrifice
Could have changed my life
With a single wet kiss of peace
For the Low Men
In the Midnight Sky
Above
Always watching
Who in daylight
I can never see
But when I deep dream at night
In Lands of Lucidity
I see them
Always gathering in huge burning paranormal circles
In wild rotating figures of eight
To whisper whenever they hear my soul's nightly screams and cries
Time and time again
Whenever I dare to dream and pray
That
I'm eventually one day
I'm going to climb over all the icy hurdles
And win
That I'm going to find happiness and joy
And all the sweetest things
I once dreamed of
When I was a little boy
Especially when they see me
Drowning in dark perilous
Purple pools of broken dreams and despair
Filled with sliding colliding images of old sins
Which compels them to gather together and whisper in droves
To sing down to me
With a dreamy symphony
To the only one
Who sees them and knows
The true king of their many midnight shows
And with a rising chant and tempo
From The Realms of their hidden Star Groves
They summon my attention
So I know I'm their Star
The entertainment of the moment
They all watch from afar
It's time to move on
They joyously sing
To remind me
Don't try to stay strong and drown
But sing this song
From us
To get stronger and stronger
Sing
I'm moving on
I'm moving on
Before you join us
In the fast-moving universe's dust
For sometimes to live in pain
Is so wrong
Even though it
Breaks your heart
Even if your heart bleeds
Sing
So I'm moving on
For it's what your heart needs
Then they wait
Watching for my tears to stop
In their fluctuating halo's of eight
All smiling
Dressed in dark cloaks of blue and hue
Only to then disappear
Like a flicker of a light switch
Into their huge burning paranormal gates
Into the wispy Grey Ether
As my soul stops crying
And takes a well-needed breather
From all the pain caused
When I decided to leave her
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I'll find you one day
As long as I live
Someone to love me
As I love you
With all
I can give
I've searched the high misty mountains and lowland streams
And everything else
That lies in-between
And I'll keep looking until the end of time
Looking for someone special
Like you
To hold my hand
Someone to dance with
In tune with some of God's bands
Someday
Somehow
Some way
Late in the low hour
I'm going to appear like an unstoppable power
For to hold you in my arms
Would be to hold the most treasured prize
Most mundane men could only dream of
Until they are cold ghosts
So I'll keep searching coast to coast
As I leave this note for you
My precious angel
In case you're searching for me too
Here
At the end of the known world's last outpost
As I move on
To the mythical
Black Tower
And open up its eternal gateposts
Praying it's there you'll be waiting
Standing smiling
With open arms at the entrance
To a happier place
Filled with no mistakes
But if not
It's me you'll see when you find this
Standing smiling
When you too
Walk through those mystical black gateposts
Where I'll be waiting for you
You
You
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You are the coveted cascade of warm emotions
Within this old life
Filled and overflowing with frosty cold dreams
The raw power to melt the iceberg embracing my very soul
Holding me like a helpless prisoner
In my many deeply hidden
Underground streams
All the passing seasons' love songs
Lost in the throes of Spring
Summer Autumn and Winter
Are just
Filled with heartfelt choruses
That reminds me of that eternal soft kiss
Of exquisite red lips
That left a fingerprint on my hearts window
I once tasted so long ago and even still now
After all this time
Will always miss
The assurance of our eventual return
An unspoken pact to be together forever
Sings a sweet symphony into Heaven's silvery mists
A divine melody of unchained excitement
To break all chains of my mortal confinement
Like whispers of an abundance of salacious lyrics and captivating poetry
Filled with joyous lines of a pain-free existence
Merged and infused with surreal magic at its deep centre
Moving freely with no resistance
It sings its own mesmerising verses of Danse du Ventre
And from the opened mouths of ethereal silhouettes
Swirling all around me as I sleep
I always hear your soul’s deep call
Dépêche toi mon amour
(Hurry up my love)
Asking me to appear and hold on to you forever
Before this treacherous glass bridge, we walk upon
Breaks and falls
And as I appear to claim you as the slippery dark shadows advance
In my deep dreams
I always stand in awe and watch in a hypnotic trance
As you perform your sensuous sword dance
To announce to the watching spirits
Our newly found preordained romance
My Goddess
My Queen
My mystical lover and soulmate from The Great In-Between
My beloved wife
Melusine
Who once showed me when she lived
The mystifying beauty to be found
In carnal sin
The mundane world has ever seen
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This thirst has been sated now that I’ve seen
You've banished all my old memories
So you may now fade
To reappear
Wherever you go
Since I'm now ephemeral
A true queen
This place we once shared
Has lost its feel
So turn away
Your blue eyes
For I no longer
In submission
Will kneel
Seek not to know
What in here may lie
For that once precious thing
Has now withered and died
Look instead to your own life
And step bravely forward
Not in woe
And let your first steps
Not be slow
Show me no mercy
To going forward
As you have already shown
As they carry you
To newer plateaus
For when those old winds of gossip
To me
Did blow
I saw her and you
Such a picture show
Worry for me not
For I am sweetly wise
I instead look for words of hope
And sing blissfully
To newer tender skies
Our once loved emotions
No longer
Lie in state
As this funeral lies cold
And un-mourners
Silently gather to celebrate
This I know
As I was told
As I finally closed our wedding rings gate
But what they cannot
Comprehend
About this beautiful cat
With nine lives
All those gossips and endless un-friends
Whenever one rose petal
Drifts from Aphrodite’s
Red and Golden tree
To fall and slowly hit the cold ground
And to wither into ruins
To never bloom as before
Another one called to me
Before it hit the floor
And whispered
Courtship can once more lift her lovely head
For true love and beauty
Can still be found
Just not by the judgemental
The gossips
Or the living dead
But by only those souls
Who wilfully sing
I may be broken
But I will survive
Its why God blessed me
For without you
Inside or by my side
I'm so alive
And I dare you
To watch me
As I thrive
For gods blessed me
To find strength to say goodbye
So go
I'll soon find my own pot of gold
At the end of the rainbow
The end of the rainbow
Now go
I will survive
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A dash of fun.
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Like a wild rare untamed
Middlemist Red flower
With such raw and stunning eyes
Filled with such power
When I look back
I was never really ready for you
That's why I did what I had to do
But now I'm eighty-five and a regular walker
Down Regrets
Long and lonely
Memory filled Avenue
Maybe things would have been different
If I had the courage
That dared me to push on
To pursue and woo you
My walk normally starts at 25
When we first met
Dancing to Van Morrison in the rain
Drinking liquor and getting wet
Then to 33
The day I lost the real me
When I went working for that Railroad
By the sea
The fateful day
I met my second love
Mary-Lee
And left you to wither with sweetly spoken lies
I used to weave
Like magical spells
To deceive
The Doc says
I only got a day or so left
So I'm leaving this letter in my will
Along with that old Van Morrison tape
I've always kept
Which I used to play in the rain
Sitting on my porch
Thinking of us happy
Getting wet
Before I walked down
Regrets
Long and lonely
Memory filled Avenue
Crying about all the lies I told you
That I hope
I'll soon forget
I can only hope you lived a good life
Since mine's been so hard
Jimmy J
Went to Nam
And bought a bullet with a free ride to an early grave
Shelly-Anne
Bless her soul
Got run over
Going shopping with
Taylor
And that red car breaks
Broke
And there were no stopping
My Mary-Lee
Passed over two years ago
I took her up North
For one last look
At the white snow
I can always remember her crying and saying this
To this very day
**George**
**Why do we get old**
**Where everyone around has died or is dying**
**Is this part of some twisted plan**
Well
I kissed all those sad tears away and brought her home
To sit on our marble porch as it rained
Listening to Van Morrison singing about real pain
So to the end
As my writing hand starts shaking
I've written all I've got left
As a gift in that check
For life's been too hard at times
That many will never see
But your memories before I went working
For that railroad by the sea
Have always carried me
So I send this will
With all my old love
Light a candle in church for me when you get this letter and check
Whenever it arrives at night
For in two days
I'll be gone
To be just another twinkling star
Only to be seen in the twilight
Smiling from afar
For wherever God shines his light
No matter that we're over my baby blue
A part of me will always belong to you
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Because been born into a world
Bathed in my endless tears
That I would fall in love with someone
As beautiful as you
Even though society says
It's so wrong
For our colours and views are so different
And that's why I sing this
Our soul song
For our Gods made us so strong
So we could find each other and belong
I just know we'll find a different way
We'll find a different way
For our hearts need to get along
To sing this
Our love song
Our dreaming song
With no sense of right or wrong
Old masters still say and pray
Like King Kong and Ann Darrow
We should never fall in love
For our skin colours and views are so different and it's all wrong
But that what makes us so strong
And makes us want to belong
To sing this in unison
Our salvation song
For today's a different day
And hey
We can do it our way
No matter what others say
We're gonna do it anyway
I never dreamed I'd fall in love with you
But now that's all
I want to do
For its what my heart says
As it beats like a drum roll
Whispering we can make it
In a better way
Any night or day
Now take my hand
As my heart's music plays
So we can runaway
Like Paris and Helen of Troy
To break rules and do it in a better way
And do it in a better way
Old masters say
We should obey
And our love
Will be a price
We can never pay
But we'll find a better way
Starting today
And that's why I sing this
Our soul song
For our God made us so strong
So we could find each other
And belong
To live a better way
To love a better way
No matter what old masters say
For whatever makes love happy
No one should stand in its way
Or that bitter taste will remain on wet lips from the night
They try to make hatred stay
That's why we need to do it our way
To light up this world in a better way
To burn the candle of hope
On shore for others
Like me and you to see
To help them swim towards
The lights of peace
In today's dangerous seas
To live and love
In a better way
No matter what
Old masters say
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A lone voice whispers
As I look back on the many years of my old life
Thinking of my Mama and you
Before trouble came waving that so sharp knife
I can see how I came to life through a form of Motherly sacrifice and deep Love
But I've died inside so many darn times looking for Real Love
Now I've lost you too
It now just hurts too much
When I feel the soft tender fingers of Love
As she returns to
Open her Remembrance Book
My heart still clings on to and clutches
A Red Remembrance Book to remind me as I re-learn
She is so beautiful and soul changing
Whenever I think of my beloved mother and you
No matter how hot her flames sometimes burns
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(A lone voice whispers)
Spellbound as I know
You're coming home to me
Take solace as I once did
Now that you've left them all behind
For you'll always burn
Like a bright candle
In the nucleus of their souls
Memories
Hidden in all the tiny fabrics of their minds
That now
At this sad moment
They'll all pray to find
Some now tragic
Yet all still magic
For rare candles like you
My Elizabeth
Burning bright
Like a beacon of tranquillity and peace
Ready to explode
In the middle of your soul
Especially at night
Always gives you the strength
To push back the Darkness
And try to keep control
As you cross Life's
Many uneven roads
Welcome my only Queen
To the Wetlands of The Great In-Between
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(A lone voice whispers)
Seeking fulfilment
A soul goes to where it's drawn
To earn redemption
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A lone voice whispers
If you've ever waded through rolling rivers of madness
Caused by profound soul-cutting sadness
Like grief
Lost love
Or all the other tendrils of pain
To find the real you
And silently cried so many countless tears in the Grey Stillness
Did you know Angels have left their silvery fortresses to stand and pray for you in a shimmering golden circle
Under the Great Olde Oak Tree
To witness your rise to self-empowerment as you find out
What your substantial role in the Cosmic Order is
From making bonds of new fidelity
Through creating kindness
Embracing new love
Or new life long friendships through your empathy
To give birth to compassion
In your own form of your life
Which resonates with your blessed vibration and aura
Which whispers of your own divine spiritual poetry
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(A lone voice talks to his only friend)
Nobody knows my name
For nobody can know my pain
But all that matters
Is how my version of the Almighty built me
To resist that pain whenever it feels like raining
So like a lone singer walking the red carpets
Looking into mythical rooms
As he walks through his version of The Hotel California
I know we'll find our way to the bright lights of Salvation
Past all the sweet temptations and mountains of the Mournful
To embrace our life's muse called Laura
Since She of no name
From the High Courts of Moloria
While reading my Tarot cards in her Rec Room called The Consortia
Once described her
And now all we gotta do is try to find and restore her
For my blood and yours are infused with the spirits of ancient warriors
As I now know
We're just another two performers
Alive and lost in the endless Plays of the Forlorn
Who silently prays
To be glorified and transformed
Whilst the four winds bellow
With whispers and echos of Pandora
To fulfil the prophecy of meeting our Laura
As reported by She of No Name
The Mage
The Sorceress
From the High Courts of Moloria
Where she once so long ago
Read my Tarot cards in her Rec Room
Called The Consortia
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Conjuring words
Baptised in an ocean of pain
So I no longer need to flounder
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When that heartbreak you feel
Shows up in your face
And whispers you should feel abandoned and disgraced
When your feelings have been torn in two
No matter what you do
To the point where you can't pretend
And you beg that pain would end
Look for me in any mirror
Your eternal friend
Hope
The devourer of pain and holy terror
Your appointed guardian angel and light bearer
For I will carry you for a million years
Try to wipe away and stop any painful tears
Banish fear jealously and hate
As your life, I try to steer
For there is nothing that I wouldn't do
To bring happiness
My gift
To be opened by you
For I so loved the world
And so love you too
And will pick you up whenever you fall
Now smile
Just whisper these lines and I'll appear to help you renew
As I carry your lifes banner
For all to see
Omnia Vincit Amor
For love does conquer all
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Sometimes
In the middle of the night
I lie awake
Thinking of her
My beloved lover and me
As I drift into the grey clouds and wet mists of the Great In-Between
Is she lost in gentle dreams filled with love stories
Walking alone by the crashing Pacific blue sea
Does she know
My love for her
Travels like a best friend
By my side
Everywhere I go
A lone thought always lingers
Though
Whenever my heart says to ring her
Will she know how much she means to me
If I died
And ended up in
Purgatory
So sometimes
In the middle of the long night
I lie awake
Thinking of her
My lover and me
As I drift off into the Great In-Between
Praying to meet her in gentle dreams
So we can walk arm in arm
By the crashing blue sea
So sometimes
In the middle of the night
I lie awake
Thinking of her
My beloved lover and me
As I drift into the grey clouds and wet mists of the Great In-Between
Is she lost in gentle dreams filled with love stories
Walking alone by the crashing Pacific blue sea
Does she know
My love for her
Travels like a best friend
By my side
Everywhere I go
A lone thought always lingers
Though
Whenever my heart says to ring her
Will she know how much she means to me
If I died
And ended up in
Purgatory
So sometimes
In the middle of the long night
I lie awake
Thinking of her
My beloved lover and me
As I drift off into the Great In-Between
Praying to meet her in a gentle dreams
So we can walk arm in arm
By the crashing blue sea
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