. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Probate Letter

Sunday, March 30, 2025

The Probate Letter

 



Remember me

Your beloved mother


In the low hours


Whenever you are feeling weak 

And have lowered

Your powerful barriers


For it's then I can only be truly seen


Remember me

As that tsunami of furious fire


That once reenergized you

In dark years


When you were alone and tired


To be wholly free


Remember me

By looking at my picture

Of us together 


Your now favourite 

Black and white one

 I sent you


As my holy scripture

That you'll only need


Remember me when you too 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 met in physical flesh


As one

Who wrote down 

In a pre-life road map


With a spirit guide

In another

Far away nation


“I want to meet someone so extraordinary 


A child of mine 


Someone so special to be a member of my own tribe


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 those heavenly tides

Of the Holy Sea”


And then I suddenly met you at birth


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 to love me again


I once wrote down before I was born


The only one I'll ever need


Just remember me


It's why I left this letter in my will


For you 

My beloved to read


Just remember me


Your beloved mother

Who loves you like no other 


(C)

Copyright John Duffy


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