Late Night Whispers

(A lone voice whispers)

I once knew a beautiful woman's name

Called Josephine 

A lady who I met

While trying to escape the matrix of the mundane 

While dancing online

Like Margot Fontey

In the cyber rain

In time

She became my true guardian 

My goddess

My white cross to bear

Who freed me like Moses

From years of pain

My midnight sky

Who parted my Red Sea

Who loved me

With every beat of my

Once lonely heart

The only dark temptation 

I dared to taste

The only risk

I chose to take

And so we were happy as Larry and Saint Clare 

But then 

From nowhere 

Mister Misery 

Appeared

From somewhere 

To claim all I 

Held so dear 

The night sky 

Once filled with silvery stars

Turned black as obsidian 

With no moon

My tears 

Once happy

Fell relentlessly like a Monsoon 

But then ten months ago

Just last June

Something came shining through

Like Venus 

The Morning Star

From afar

And my higher-self said what to do

A perfumed musky letter appeared 

Right out-of-the-blue saying in Spanish 

Lo siento mucho

Corrí porque llevaba a tu hijo

y estaba asustado 

tu dirías adios

¿Puedo volver con mi dulce pequeño Rafael? 

Entonces podemos empezar de nuevo

(I'm so sorry

I ran because I was carrying your child

And was frightened 

You would say goodbye

Can I come back with my sweet little Rafael? 

So we can start again)

(C)

Copyright John Duffy