. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Escapism. For the readers

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Escapism. For the readers



(A lone voice whispers)


Within this deep clearing, a mystical sanctuary surrounded by the long trees of Time's perpetual symphonies, we meet.


Within this clearing, sheltered from Storms


Inside this sacred sanctuary, within this journey


A place beyond the Silence of Humanities long reach


A secret place where the bright blue Sky holds back the shadows of conflict and pains of Yesteryear


A place beyond duty, consequence, or fear.


Instead, immersed for a brief interlude


A time where we simply enjoy each other’s thoughts


Before pulling up our long grey cloaks of separation


And once again venturing forth into the cauldron of life’s ever spinning tapestries


Would you still follow me if I lit a red candle


In this final odyssey home 


Would you follow me willingly into the swirling dark


In this brief history of time


Would you grasp my coattails as we trespassed tentatively through all of life's scary parks


As we swim against all the fast-flowing tides


Will you tango and tiptoe past the Tall Man and all his worldly Minions


As we circumnavigate the globe


The new world grid and claimed it as our Dominion


For although we are but lost souls going eventually to She'ol


Would you still just blindly follow me past the awakening powers of a modern AI God


As we walk unashamed together behind the many new pale white political horses


To be wantonly unleashed within the unfathomable darkness as we surely conquer this life and all its occult forces


Forever tasked with painting new poetic masterpieces with apocalyptic energy like Vincent Van Gogh


And then every night


Hidden behind the many enemies money can ever make


Before we dream


Shall we plead to angels and owners of The Book of Secrets


To take us beyond the Black Darkness


We always see when our astral eyes open as our mortal eyes close


To use their invisible hands to tear away the rim before our ever-watchful twin pyres


To show us what truly lies beyond these Books of Lies


Everyone sometimes sees or reads from Television or Social Media 


For us to then venture into newer undiscovered lands

To a brave new world


To see the bright lights of two crimson suns and the quartet of multicoloured rainbows illuminating a purple-hued sky


A place where no one no longer dies


A paradise of ever-swirling winds of a whispered profound new Eden


Perpetually emanating from a deep divine so high up above


A sanctuary lost forever within the forgiving green reeds of a new millennium


A place to be reunited with dear old family or friends who never made it to the end


Where nobody no longer cries


To finally sit beside the Holy River to write poetry and sing 


And to joyously watch through a silver scrying mirror


As the real world slowly disappears


To walk through the luscious green grass to the Eternal City

To hear the greatest stories never told to human ears


To finally embrace a new realm free from all fears or pity

What says you


Will you come to run in this

 forbidden city 


(C) John Duffy

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Escapism. For the readers