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(A lone voice whispers)
I still miss your bright white smile
My living breathing Calliope
Every night
Like I miss our first kiss at the fairground
On that old Merry-go-round
For they always appear as bright beams of luminous glorious lights
Shooting from the deep depths
Of a faraway Heaven
Your warmth and guile
Satisfying my manifestation of love
Given birth of creation
Once by the Mighty Creator
Here on Earth
A glowing towering beacon to help push back
The hordes called Legion
Prowling like hyenas
In the darkness
Around me
For you were
And always will be
My daily taste of gladness
A philosopher who too has seen and tasted
The wild beast wine
Of anxiety and madness
So now I call out to you from this wild wood
Where my prison is as I am stood
This wild forsaken place where loveless things
In the dark shadows slither and crawl
Tormenting us all
As we all bang tin cups on our prison walls
Stalking memories alone in uneven lines
Like a lone feral grey wolf pines
Throughout this paranormal neighbourhood
For with you died
Like so many in here who cry
My spark of life
My ecstatic joyful Sun
My bringer of serenity and jest
So in here in my southwest 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
Walking the Green Mile down Memory Road
Remember me before the last harvest
Before you get old
So I can be paroled
Light a white candle
In your mind's eyes
See our first kiss with love at that fairground
Sat on that Merry-go-round
Beneath that undulating red ocean of pain
Crashing like endless Pacific 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 tin prison cups
Relentlessly bang
Like dark country drums
Hour by hour
With sounds like exploding gunpowder on black bars of illusion
As I look out for you
From my window
In my cave
My penitentiary
Here in my own watchtower
For
My thousand-named queen
My rare
Middlemist Red flower
This broken piece of your soul awaits
To be reunited
To bring peace
When your presence in The Great In-Between
Opens his cell door
As if by magic
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 Reaping and Rapture
Of the Prince
Who is to come
To build Dissolution
Row everywhere
For all he captures
Remember me
Your Luca
Your number 1
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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