Mirroring from the Abyss

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Mirroring from the Abyss 

(A lone voice whispers)

Am I the sacred answers you seek

Could I but be your own embodiment

of a perverse heaven or hell

Some say I’m the sweet lullaby dark angels sing

A sonnet of damnation or intense pleasure for the soul

Am I but the luscious green garden

everyone wishes to walk through

Before they leave this land to trespass to who knows

My weapons have started and ended wars

Am I but the all-consuming knife

To pierce the hearts and lonely minds

Of those who just linger lost below the long shadows

And seeking something

to reignite their light

I have been called the life-force of all creatures

Untamed or just broken

Ancient woodland groves sing pagan songs of me 

In the darkness

My names are many but only one really remains

I live to visit shamefully darkly lit places

And opulent palaces of loquacious words of sin

Bedrooms

Woods and hotel rooms

Still carry the scent of my many visits

They all pray for my return

Am I but the dark sustenance your soul needs

For once you are firmly within my grasp

I will own you for all your days and nights

For once you’ve tasted my sweet liquor

I’ll always own you as long as your light flickers

For I am the new Adam or old Eve

Forever stalking your Gardens of Creation

I walk through all countries

and my name is carried on the lips

Of the seduced within every nation

I am the glimmer

whilst lost in the darkness

And the temptations of the Black Sun

The giver of reconciliation of the soul

And knife edge which you may perpetually balance

Do you know my name yet

I'm simply the two edge sword bestowed to all living creatures from above

My name is simply.......................Love

(C)

Copyright John Duffy