אשלם

 

(A lone voice whispers)

Every night

Before I dream

I silently command my

Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels

With a silent אשלם

(I surrender)

To take me beyond the

Black Darkness

I always see

As I close my deep brown eyes

To use their invisible hands

To tear away the dark rim

Before my ever watchful

Twin pyres

To show me

The real mysteries 

People and places

What lies truly beyond

For me

To venture into newer

Undiscovered lands

To see

The bright lights of the two suns

The quartet of multicoloured rainbows.

Illuminating a purple-hued sky

A place where no one

No longer dies

A paradise of ever swirling winds of a whispered profound love

Filled with scents of the sublime 

Perpetually

Emanating from a deep divine

Just always watching from

High up Above

A sanctuary lost forever

To many of the living

Within the forgiving reeds of time

For they lack the will to summon it so

A place to be reunited

With dear old family or friends

Who never made it to the end

To go and sit beside the ever-flowing

Holy River

And then

Watch through a silver

Scrying Mirror

As the real world

Slowly disappears

To walk through luscious

Green grass to the

Eternal City

To embrace a new realm

Free from fears

Or pity

This I beseech the Silent Dark

Before once again I am lost

For a few hours

As I reluctantly board

Morpheus's Dark Ark

Of Dreams

Filled with other

Summoners of אשלם

To then step silently into

Newly conjured

Worlds

Unseen

To travel once again

To see her

The girl of my dreams

Who always waits

For me

With crow like hair

Ruby red lips

And to die for eyes of such intense beauty

I just utter אשלם

In her presence 

By her white gatepost 

In the Great-Inbetween

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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