The last few years were so interesting.
Mandates after mandates.
Restrictions and dancing medical staff.
Companies providing poor corrupt services at a great cost.
Title:
Are you awake yet? The Lockdown Years.
Is it nearly past the first week of October in 2023
And have all those invisible tears
Linked to emotional streams
Started falling again
Overwhelming you
Are you relieved from leaving
All those sad covid days
Gone past
That seemed to forever
Linger and last
Like an unwanted preacher
Who's a religious outcast
Is it mysteriously silent
Before the Wild Hunt begins
And do the freeways
Beneath your shadowy bedroom window sills
Chime with the sounds
Of the hounds of the Baskervilles
Roaming the metaphorical Berkshire foothills
Crying aloud
Sending out echoes
Of a sense of impending doom
Subjugating that very small bedroom
Does the scent of a new escape
From that old oblivion of 2022
Haunt and follow you
Like a ghoul
Covered in pagan impressions
Magical Symbols of The Great Work
Only known about through
Absolution and confession
Old feelings of Hell
Been dissolved by all your five senses
In each second
As they fight for their own liberating rights
Of succession
Rounding up calls for a new rebirth
Invoked in prayers
Sent up to Heaven
Do you still dream of enjoying your old freedoms
Which are now deemed by those sitting up high in society
As forbidden
A sacred place
Where those wild untameable horses
Of your innermost obsessions and yearnings
Can be openly ridden
Into a new ever-expanding kingdom
As you pray for divine salvation
And a new altar to build upon
What says you
Will you sit back and blindly
Capitulate
Or open your eyes
To see corruption and lies
To march
Fight back against oppression and dictatorship
And retaliate
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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