. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Monologue of Samuel Carlsen

Saturday, July 8, 2023

The Monologue of Samuel Carlsen

 







(A lone voice whispers.)


It's all mythical

And true love is a miracle


This I've found

After opening one or two lyrical doorways 


Within this underground maze 

Within my mind


For unconditional silent prayers 


Seeking

Needing and pleading for it


Soft prayers

Carried gently upwards

 Like Autumn leaves 


Into the midnight breeze

With such ease


Ephemeral but eternally spiritual


Through embedded emotions

Within every little notion


Is it why in this endless smokey darkness


I still dance

The Dance of Memoriae Aeternae


As invisible butterflies

Circle


Whispering her secret colorful name


Like hungry flames 

In the fading moonlight


Licking and

kissing my hard skin


Landing and

Lying in wait


For that transitional universal moment 


When I surrender myself to the past


Through these starlight filters

That always last


For I'm an untamed wild spirit  


Bathing in surreptitious

originality


For I've endured the conception and cessation of light and love

In endless dark  


Seen sharpened knives 

Hidden in poetic words


Watched my heaven and earth being summoned to turn to ash 


But as the burning seeds of chaos grew


I turned to you

Jesu


For much has been outgrown

And this you've shown







(A lone voice sings.)


Oh 

Holy wisdom


Oh 

Holy wisdom


Show me

Thy kingdom 


Thy kingdom

So bright


So I can be

I can be


Drawn to thee 

Drawn to thee


Tonight


Tonight 


Lift my soul 

Lift my soul


To new heights

To new heights


Tonight 


Amen


(C)

Copyright

John Duffy


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