Freedom

Have you tasted the black wine

Of trying to live a life 

Through rivers

Of fast flowing

Desolation 

And one filled with a marching Mariachi band

Playing the Vihuela and Guitarrón

Taking turms

Singing about your pain

As they play on

And on

About living a life

With nothing to gain

Surrounded by 

Kukulkan dark soldiers 

Of an unseen nation

From 

The Great In-Between

Chanting mantras of shame

With

 Coniunge ordines nostros et inveniet libertatem

(Join our ranks and find freedom)

Living a life without emancipation 

Blamed

Like a new Eve

For all bad things

Conceived

Lost in a schism of time

Hovering like a Hummingbird

Between the fluctuating streams

Of two worlds

As they burn

Like blue and green

paper cups

Broken dreams

Of love

Hope and peace

Even yellow cups of sadness with no release 

This prophetic dream

Of a Paradise Lost

I am shut down with

Every night 

As I shudder in the cold

As that familiar story 

Like a dark Hollywood picture 

Unfolds

But there is a new calling 

A new voice 

Summoning my soul

With soft sounds of

 Keep going

For soon you'll find

Victory and peace

I hear her whispering to my centrepiece

A haunting place 

Of grey walls

Now echoing

Within audacious dreams

With her sweet voice

Above the noise

Of Kukulkan dark soldiers 

Reluctantly 

Retreating and screaming

As I follow her voice to freedom

To open new doors

So happiness

Can come

(C)

Copyright John Duffy