Remember Me

 Remember me

My Elysee

In the low hours

When you are weak 

And have lowered

Your powerful barriers

For it's then I can only be seen

Remember me

As that tsunami of furious fire

That once reenergized you

In those dark years

When you were alone and tired

To be wholly free

Remember me

By looking at my picture

Your now favourite 

Black and white one I sent you

As my holy scripture

That you'll only need

Remember me when you are old 

Standing brightly as the early morning sun 

In the darkness of old age

Even though your beloved memories are getting cold

Before God turns your page

So you can fade away

To join me 

As the hours and seconds

Run away 

Remember me

So I may stay

In some strange spiritual way

To give you comfort

Until you too are recalled

To float away

Someday

Remember me

My poetic love 

So I can come to you

In dreams

Walking down to find you

Through the ethereal blue rivers and green

Underground streams 

To reach you to swim

Together 

Reunited

 

In the Holy Sea

Until the early morning sunrise

Remember me

As your true spiritual devotion

Who you never met in physical flesh

But one

Who wrote down 

In his pre-life road map

With his spirit guide

In another

Far away nation

"I want to meet someone so extraordinary 

Someone worldwide

Who will show me such poetic wonders" 

"That my heart will open up its velvety doors and ask to be possessed as it pleads to confess

Before I once more walk 

In these heavenly tides

Of the Holy Sea"

And then I suddenly met you

Mesmerised 

By all

I could see

So that's why I pray

For you 

Each night

So you'll remember me

As I wait here

Walking barefoot and alone

In the swirling tides

Of The Holy Sea

Waiting 

for the one

I once wrote down before I was born

Now known

As Elysee

The only one I'll ever need

(C)

Copyright John Duffy