The Lifebuoy

Emotional poetry has always struck a chord. 

We all, unless we are really lucky, have endured heartbreak. 

I rather still love reading this old piece. 

A lone soul reminiscing while looking for a new love. 

After being abandoned. 

The metaphor of the circling sharks represents social media or someone's social circle. 

Predators seeking new thrills regardless of someone's attachment to another. 

How many relationships worldwide lie in ruin, due to a sudden behaviour change, relating to a new secret love interest? 

Poetry, music, film and theatre echo these themes, relentlessly. 

So here's just another heartbroken piece. 

Before you ask, it doesn't relate to me. 

I'm just another creative soul. 

Have a great weekend. 

Salute. 

Title: 

The Lifebuoy

Floating like a lonely lifebuoy

In a hurricane of raw emotional seas

That defied all known physics

In a secret version of The Pacific 

Known only to the Kataai

Where we were both drowning in

A New Stone Age 

Created by critics

Our version of the Mesolithic

With happiness and pain 

Written and carved across

Our souls

In shed blood and tears

Like unfathomable Egyptian hieroglyphics 

You floated my way

One day

And with soft lips

And tender eyes

Held me with

Tightened fingers

As my lifebuoy

Kept us 

Both afloat

You whispered

Secrets to me

To help me cope

As I to you 

Secrets

Mystery Schools

Would beg to hear

Stories

Hopes

Fears and dreams

We floated in that sea

In between worlds

For what seemed forever

You and me

Clasped so tightly

Together

In that crazy weather

But deep below

Great sharks

Were circling

Leviathan's of 

All that creeps

My lifebuoy held

Strong

Though

Chained 

To the bottom

Of that rough sea

Your grip firm

But then 

You slipped

A voice

Caught your eye

In the near distance

And in that instance

Wet with that sea

You just floated away 

From me

Watching with saddened eyes

As I slowly floated by

I remember

Looking at you

On the crest of that huge Nazare wave

That suddenly appeared

And screaming

Over that ocean

Of neverending undulating

Emotions

"Love given freely

When accepted in any known form

Should be cherished

No matter how long

Or wrong

No guilt attached

For in that moment

Always remember the magic of that song

Our song

That helped us float

Together

In that moment

Forever

A sonnet

We both once heard

No matter how tragic"

If I remember

In reply

You just smiled

Then disappeared 

Forever

When that old familiar fire

Of ours

In your eyes 

Died 

And I floated away

Alone

To never again 

Cry

Just another

Bobbing red and white

Lifebuoy

Looking for another

To meld with

To reach

Me 

In that secret version of The Pacific 

With memories of your soft

Fingertips and sweet smiles

That once held me

Glorious stories

And all those magical things

That once created a love song

That now still plays

So beautifully

Slowly

Like Beethoven's

Moonlight Sonata

As it heals

Somewhere

Deep

Within me

As I still float

Alone and lost at sea

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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