. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Love Struck

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Love Struck

 

(A lone voice whispers)
 


The last time I saw you 

Triggered the cataclysm of 

An unquieted mind


As I tried in vain to decipher my own 

Codex Consecratio


To overcome 

And conquer 


My own self-deprecating 

Code Red


For

You are my dangerous solo

Mission 


My one-way ticket 

To Loves

Dark side of its many crimson prisms


And Wolf Moons


Empowered by that ruby ticket


I dream to manifest 

And wait until the 

End of Days 


At your much-sought-after side


For I have been metaphorically 

Blindfolded and willingly

Cohersed and

Dragooned


For I’m but a naive hostage

To you 



My penance 


To serve my own red devil on Earth 

In human form 


My happiness and dark majick

Contained in but one


My Scarlet Lady 


Without any notions of fears

Or that human weakness 

Betrayed through wet tears


Am I but a pitiful man 


Some may say in hushed whispers in familiar secret backrooms 


That I'm tied and lashed to your 

Never-ending burning

Crosses Of Gaslighting

 

And infernal 

Damnation's 


Overflowing 

And drowning in deep rivers of tribulations 


Forever embroiled within 

Lost lunacies of Dark Confessions

Centered around and circling love


Do I speak in unfathomable tongues

Am I indecipherable


Is that why you

Leave me lonely 

Always


Soaking in this painful red symphony


 Filled with feverish octaves which ambush my weakened soul


 In waves


Awaiting the much sought-after days 


That you always promise 

When you say


I'll finally appear as your own

Red churches


Self-imposed 

Crimson 

Altarpiece's 


Only 

Epiphany 


Because someday

In the future


You'll miss me


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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