. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Epithalamion for Athena

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

Epithalamion for Athena

  



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A lone voice whispers


I first saw you 
In a wild dream

Riding a white horse  
Dressed from head to toe

In racy red 
And racing green

In the lost lands  
Of The Great In-Between

While scrying  
The Tragic Darklands

Using Ayahuasca magic  
Hoping you wouldn't see

For you looked so serene  
It made my soul's lust levels

Scream out tragic prose

Which talented poets 
Could use

To write new gospels

For you looked like 
A midnight queen

Breaking through a dark lull

To look over your empires 
Shadows and green meadows  


But you saw me  
Looking

Seeing a reflection 
Of me

In your own handheld  
Obsidian 
Scrying mirror

And made my spirit 
Shiver

Oh  
My blood ran 
Like a wild river  
That day

For even though 
I knew then  

I loved you 
In a sacred way

My old love  
Called Life

In the land of the Living
Who are all men and women

Husbands and wives
Always whispered

Forgive her

For she needs more time
With me

For I'm like a wet teardrop
That she can't stop

I know what you've done
Though

You've put a spell on me
And it now follows me 
Around

Everywhere I go
Like a hollowed-out curse
As I walk under the sun  


I don't know why I always 
Run

When you appear  
In my silver scrying mirror

Since inside

When I scry away  
To wastelands
Where lost fools play

I always cry and think

Maybe  
On another day

When my old love leaves  
You can stay

I didn't mean to break 
Your heart 

And tear you apart

But Lifes 
Like a She-Devil  

Who I love
As I still live and breathe

And I know  
It doesn't care  
  
But when I saw you 
In a wild dream

As I stared  
Into 
The Great In-Between

Dressed in white lace 
And racing green

After our first meeting

Whilst  
Scrying  
Those Dark Lands  
Of gushing smoke

So you wouldn't see

You looked too beautiful 
To be real

I know that sounds so crazy  
But it made my soul's lust levels

Scream out a wild symphony  
But then you saw me

Smiling

In my Scrying Mirror  
And made my soul shiver

Oh, 
My poor blood ran 
Like a wild river

For now, I'm cursed to love you  
Even More

But my old love  
Who I adore

Life

Says forgive her

She needs more time  
With me  


For I'm like a wet teardrop  
That needs time to stop

I know what you've done  
For it follows me around  
Now

Like a hollowed-out curse  
As I walk under the sun

But The Bayou Queen says
On the sixth of December

You'll hold me  
As my old wife surrenders

So that date remember

For on the sixth of December  
You'll hold me

So that date remember

For she says

We'll then be together  
Forever

In all weathers

But until then  
Save our prophecy

Our Deuterogamy

So we can play
That eternal game

And fall in love  
On that holy day

When I can no longer find 
A sad reason
To run away  


(C)  
Copyright John Duffy


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