Midellio Whispers

I still miss your bright white smile

Like beams of luminous glorious lights

Shooting from the deep depths

Of a faraway Heaven

Your warmth and guile

My manifestation of love

Given birth of creation 

Once 

By the Mighty Creator

Here on Earth

A glowing beacon to push back 

The hordes called Legion

Prowling like hyenas

In this darkness

Their arena

For you were

And always will be 

My daily taste of gladness

A philosopher who too 

Has tasted and seen 

The bottle of Wild Beast Wine 

Of Wild and Free

Madness

So I now call from this wild wood

This wild place where loveless things 

Stalk alone in uneven lines

Like a lone feral wolf pines

Throughout this paranormal neighbourhood 

For with you died

My spark of life

My ecstatic joyful Sun

My bringer of serenity and jest

So here in my cobwebbed-filled hut

As other prison cells 

In Desolation Row

Ring out

Like thunder

In a rising crescendo 

Of shrieks of pain and anguish

As we all 

Self-punish

Remember me before the last harvest

Light a candle 

In your mind's eyes

See our love

Beneath that undulating ocean of pain

Crashing like endless tides 

Maybe 

Again and again

So that I may still live

If only for a moment

For what I wouldn't give

Now

To breathe once more

To open and walkthrough

That old marital front door

If only for one hour

But as these loud voices  

Surrounding me get louder

And grow in power

As prison cups

Relentlessly bang

Like dark country drums

With sounds 

Like exploding gunpowder

As I look out for you

From my window

In my cave

Here in my own watchtower

For 

My thousand-named queen

My rare

 Middlemist Red flower

The broken piece of your soul waits

To be reunited 

To bring peace

When your presence 

In The Great In-Between

Opens his cell doors

So he can 

Scream no more

But walk home

Into the bright lights

With the only love 

He adores

Both striding 

Powerfully 

Hand in hand

To enter into

Evermore 

To be refined like silver

Escaping 

The Last Great River

Of the Reaping

And Rapture

Of the Prince 

Who is to come

To build Desolation Row

For all he captures

Remember me

Mon Ami

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Copyright John Duffy

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