There's an incredible woman I once knew
Who suddenly appeared
One Sunday afternoon
Right out of its
Ether and Blue
We lived and walked on kind or mean streets
Made of fire and ice
In all known weathers
It was like rare miracle
A true unique paradise
Before our happiness
Paid the fatal price
For like all good things
We came under attack
And The Principalities
Destroyed it with their dark knife
Worried
Vexed
Harassed
Irritated
Confused
And frustrated
We fell like lightning from our heaven
Never again
To be together
But then a low whisper Came to me
Skipping and dancing
Like Heidi
Throughout all the inner corridors
Of my mind
In a dream
With no name
It whispered
Say these words
When day breaks or when the night falls
To cleanse your soul of anything dark
That calls
Lord God, my Protector and
Savior
I pray for Your protection and salvation
As my days and nights left
In numbers
Fall
For you are my shield
My place
My refuge and under Your wings
I pray for peace against all those things
The Principalities use
So I can look past that darkness
And remember the love
I still have for my muse
And then it faded
Like a setting sun
I wrote down that prayer
For it lingered so
Begging to be captured
In case others needed to hear
Or know it's rapture
Its powerful song
To help right old wrongs
For I see her now
Standing so strong
In visions
Like Deborah in The Old Testament
Heaven sent
As I thank the Lord
Day and night in prayer
For the strength
In making his Presence
Felt
To then revisit memories
That never left
Those beautiful ones
I still treasure
The ones we
Created and
Forever meant
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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