. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Voicemail left for Monica

Monday, May 22, 2023

The Voicemail left for Monica

(A lone voice whispers)


I know you're listening 

So don't disguise your profound love for me 


With such acts of disdain


But later tonight

When it gets late


Let my mind 


Reach out as I send it

To touch you 


Through my supernatural senses


To soothe any pain

That may still remain


To reach out 


To gently touch 

And caress 

Your inner core and silhouette


To unlock 

That secret lock


To the very doorway 

To your soul


So I can walk past all the strutting catwalks 


Filled with figures


From years and years 

Of so many well-built defenses 


Until I can see the real you


So you can give me

That look 


That feverish look that whispers

In an unspoken language 


Of a sensuous love

That will come

Calling


One that can pull you up 

By your shoelaces and coattails 

If you're falling 


One look that 

Anyone 

Who sees it 


Could ever 

Forget it


One that paints a fascinating tapestry 


Of contrasting images and whispering emotions


Painted with such striking deft brush strokes 


Capturing incredible longing and intensity 


Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

Would surely

Dance in the Country 


A tapestry vibrating with a symphony of well-orchestrated bodies 


Two

In slow motion


In late-night acts of fingertips and devotion


For true love only comes around 

Once in your lifetime


Like when Adam first found Eve


At the Dawn of Time

In The Garden of Eden 


In Zero BC


So Monica

Here's my number


07753210



Call me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy 


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