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Salute.
(A lone voice whispers.)
Love and sorrow are as one
This I know
For even as the sky
The winds and snow
Just like
Some of Mother Nature's mesmerizing things
Which can never be outrun
Like those walking on Desolation Row
I have felt both
Rode those two crazy boats
Until I became this ghost
Clinging on
Steadfastly
From love to sorrow
Coast to Coast
Filled with wild hopes and desires
Powered on
By a surety bond
Relentlessly
By a silent knowledge
Of a strange fire
From The Great Beyond
But like baby seeds
Dreaming of birth
Beneath the Sun's blazing fire
To grow
Waiting
Deep below
Within the Earth
With a heart dreaming of a new spring
A new rebirth
I too
Am waiting for those hidden golden bells to ring
To start of freedom
Sing
But I still just die every time
I think of you
Just floating metaphorically
Alone
Into the fading blue
Like a white feather
Blowing
Lonely in the cold winds
Beneath a heartless sky
Which always seems to be standing
Smiling and watching
In all weathers
Only to then melt into the early morning Sun
For all things
All said and done
What is it to escape breathing
When you have no loved ones
Or tall tales to be spun
But to find freedom in here
A new kingdom
In The Great In-Between
One that rises and falls with the tides of mortal goodbyes
If it could be seen
For when you walk in these shallow rivers of Silence
To endlessly die
To taste its sweet musk of defiance
As you cry
You too shall sing
Like me
Oh Hosanna
Oh Hosanna
To reach the mountain
top
You too shall begin to pray to climb
Oh Hosanna
Oh Hosanna
To take a sip
From Absolutions Ceremonial Silver Cup
For when you reach rock bottom
Oh Hosanna
Oh Hosanna
The only way
Oh Hosanna
Oh Hosanna
Dear reader
Is up
Oh Hosanna
Oh Hosanna
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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