. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Storyteller

Monday, June 19, 2023

The Storyteller

  A lone voice whispers


The invisible Angel smiled at the rows of sorrowful patients


Which lay before it on ward twenty-one of Saint Peters hospital 


In New Brunswick

New Jersey 


As it then looked at just one particular sorry soul whose body was now broken and bent


For it was why he was summoned by heartfelt prayers 


Whispered to be heard 

For it to be dutifully sent


The smile it carried wasn't a smile of ill judgement 


Or dismay but of immense hope 


To change the sad vibrations at play


For it knew the recently diagnosed patient would find the tenacity and strength to eventually cope


For they all do 


It's a silent degree

A line spoken by the Almighty 


Which all things follow if they believe whatever it says


All they have to do is call for them and pray


To summon angels from The Great In-Between


The bringers of such priceless envelopes to soothe the soul


The invisible folk


Who'll follow like betrothed guardian philanthropists


Just huddled together


Sleeping

In the shade of the Great In-Between trees


The Eternal Water Oaks


Waiting for psychic calls to spring into action


Flying into the lonely caressing arms of the swirling grey mists


Which moved and flowed all around 


Like it had a phenomenal supernatural intelligence 


Hiding those sleeping 

By The Great Grey Oaks 


Hidden

By its holy smoke which it uses to cloak


Copyright John Duffy

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