. Poetry from The Great In-Between: Daraya's Monologue

Saturday, February 22, 2025

Daraya's Monologue

 


(A lone voice whispers)


Do you still miss me before we were slowly destroyed and betrayed 


Would you tell anyone the truth of how we were played


By the demon associated with jealousy called Leviathan. 


Even if God forced you to confess under duress 


Although I know I've caused you so much distress


And your inner circle still revolts and screams like Mary Harris Jones


The grandmother of all agitators


Casting wild spells

Whenever they hear my name


When you visit family or friends who respond with wide alligator smiles


Before commenting and laughing about my tragic previous lifestyle


Like one of its many unwarranted administrators


I may now dance amongst the silvery stars 


Now just a faded memory 

No longer a member of your life's smiling parade


No more to sing 

Smile or kiss


No more to hold hands with someone they really miss and watch the sunset


Lost in each other's eyes in total bliss


But if only I could see you one last time


I would move heaven and earth like Che Guevara


For you are still my silver glittering candelabra in the darkness


My second heartbeat

My magical Abracadabra


Which always wakes me like my own version of Desiderata


At 4 am


In the middle of each lonely heartbroken night


In here


Amongst the ever-moving shadows of The Great In-Between


The dark rift the broken enter

In dreams 


When their life totally falls apart at the seams


I miss you 

Alanna


I just hope and pray you're happy 


Still living pill free 

In a new era


So just remember me

Your forever one and only

Daraya


The silent watcher, whose now a citizen on the other side


Lost 

But happy tonight


Just listening to Prince Rogers Nelson perform a show and sing 


Sometimes it snows in April

In The Hotel California


As the Pharisee's Golden Bells

 

Hidden all around us 

Rings



(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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