. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Have you been to Tribulation City

Friday, November 11, 2022

Have you been to Tribulation City


Press play before you read. Salute.

(A lone voice whispers)


Have you been to Tribulation City 


When quite a severe darkness started residing 

In the centre of your soul


Without pity


A deep place where nobody now visits 


A secret place no one can ever know

Exists


As you act to hide the pain 


Like the lead actor

In a Hollywood show 


Did your wild rose get plucked

Intimately by someone you thought you loved


Only to be left 


Wilting 

Heartbroken and feeling totally exposed and juxtaposed 


Some say the true price of knowing love 


Is to endure loss 

At some time 


So have you been an actor 

In one of its endless plays


Titled

Love Crimes


Filled with wild emotions


That just live to pivot 


Between Love

And all its rainbows of total devotion


All the time


To hate

Where so many go


To drown in its boiling-hot oceans

Of feelings 


Which becomes the only paradigm 

They know



I too 

Still miss my old love

As times flows


A woman of such stunning grace


Moses have would have surely wept 

If he could have only seen 

Her glorious face


But it's now too late


And I'm just another lost soul

Feeling so guilty


Walking 


Lost in the evergrowing crowds 

Of those never at peace


 

Where a lone drum beats 


Forever looking for Lilly 


In the mean streets of

Tribulation City 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


Inspired by quite a sad film I watched, late last night.

We've all been to Tribulation City if we're honest.

Everyone has had a painful breakup. 


Maybe from youth or even recently.


Going from the incredible highs to the sudden depressing lows.


It's 3.43 am, and I'm planning strategies for next week. 


Do all-driven personalities ever get enough sleep?


Answers are welcome on a postcard to:

 

123 Insomnia Avenue

Just Past The Park

Never Never Land 



Be safe all. Salute.


tribulation
/ˌtrɪbjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
noun
  1. a cause of great trouble or suffering.
    • a state of great trouble or suffering.


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