. Poetry from The Great In-Between: As Above. As Below.

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

As Above. As Below.


 

My early morning post relates to the courage to embrace who you really are.


Many avoid doing so, and must fall endlessly in the void, as they trespass through this life.


Title:

As Above 

As Below 


Do devils and angels huddle around their monotone radios and quietly listen


As silent prayers are expressed and confessed


While waiting to help the weak 

Corrupt or the oppressed


Do Devil's eyes glisten

As young and old fools gather 


While devious deeds are goaded and corruptions sweet pills


Are simultaneously swallowed


By some as they quietly suggest


Do Angels wait to be invited in 


To bring more hope

Instead of sin


For those needing something else special 

To cope


Do they all stand around wherever they are


With some praying and some laughing to see 

Who'll win the bet


Do we all involuntarily shudder 


Caused by this complex life we contest


While we carry invisible tokens of our inevitable unseen guests


Linked to the good and the bad


The path may twist

As you stroll through its ever-changing strange roads


The toll booths may still need its payments in kind


The unearthly radios may relay your lamination's and prayers


But just walk on beneath their jubilant stares


They can but wait above or below

Until you get there


This life was never meant to be a paradigm


Filled with the realistic or fair


It all depends upon the attitude you wear


In all weathers 


When the clouds break and the bright lights herald a touch of a new dawn


Embrace all you are and why you were born


To help others

And yourself


And try to only listen 


To those angels with wings of white feathers


Not those 

Whose red eyes glisten 


Copyright John Duffy


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