. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Nightwalker

Monday, October 28, 2024

The Nightwalker


 The Nightwalker


(A lone voice whispers)


They 

Call me Ramon


The nightwalker looking for her


The one who summons me with her faint calls of


Dépêche-toi mon amour

Dépêche-toi mon amour


(Hurry up my love)


And when I finally appear

She disappears smiling and whispers


Pas ce soir mon amour, laisse le grand jeu continuer. 


Cette poursuite passionnante est tout ce que nous avons maintenant. 


Ne gâchons pas ce rêve mystique de The Great In-Between.


Que la poursuite continue.


(Not tonight my love, let the great game continue. 


This thrilling chase is all we now have. 


Let's not spoil this mystical dream from The Great In-Between.


Let the chase continue.)


And then slowly glides like a vampire clad in black and gold


With long crow black hair 

To where I can never go


As I lament with


Tasanna


O, my love

My Lylak Queen

O, my love


A potent power of living

Breathing carnal sin


Born from the Babylonian bloodlines


Freed once more

By the Deep Well


To entice 

All in view 

Who dare pine


To be put under

Your spell


When you arrive

Like a new Cleopatra 


Dressed to the nines

In gold and diamonds


It's why I always wait

Like a faithful follower


Forever in the shadows

Hidden on the sidelines


For how can I win

Against such a goddess of potent sin


Elusive

So intoxicatingly 

Seductive


I feel blessed by Pāgānus

If Pāgānus was a god


For I'd walk the two hundred miles of


The Four Pillars of Zanzibar

To see your smile


Swim in the hazardous Pele Waters

At dusk


Just for a taste

Of your sensuous hypnotic musk


For obsession is a crazy horse to ride 


To dark places

Where low men scoop fire into their laps


Praying their clothes will not get burnt


As they wander 

Lost 


Like Bedouin Prince's

In the deserts of the mind


Walking the wet shores 

Of the Lylak


Looking forever 

For your silhouette


Never to ask for help 

Or to go back


It's why I wait

Here


In The Great In-Between


Fearful of abandonment 

Since the first day 

We met


For chasing a love like yours


Is like playing a crazy game with Diablo


Like Russian Roulette

Sometimes as I hear 

The footsteps


Of another arrival 


And when the Great Golden Trumpet blows

In that moment 


I always wonder


Is that your omnipotent power

With one kiss


Is one doomed to chase

And


Cursed to crave

To never forget 


To then ride to 

The wet shores of the Lylak 


To dark places

Where low men scoop fire into their laps


Praying their clothes will not get burnt


As their souls

Cry out in thirst


Dépêche-toi mon amour

Dépêche-toi mon amour


Hurry up my love 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy



 The Nightwalker

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