. Poetry from The Great In-Between: The Diary Letter to Beatrice

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

The Diary Letter to Beatrice

 


The Diary Letter to Beatrice



(A lone voice whispers, as the right hand, takes careful notes)


In the deepest of silence 

I always walk 


Deep in thoughts, into my own created Maelstrom of Defiance


As memories of you appear slowly, like a wild moorland winter fog


Which slithers, rolls and returns


With a soft hint of a time that was truly priceless


Announced with a slight shiver, running down my spine, that burns


As the air magically fills with that so familiar pulsating scent, of Chanel N°5


That makes me wilt and pine, as all my sharpened senses, quickly come alive 


An imagination mind trick, that if I told any doctor


They would put me straight into, any asylum, with this wrap up line


"Old man, isn't it time you dropped her?"


It's usually then, that feel your presence and visually embrace 


In my mind's cathedral of memories, all those lingering thoughts and images 


Whispering like feverish crows


About everywhere, we once went


Before our descent, from the pinnacle of grace, as we got old


Especially whenever I look in our old silver mirror, and start feeling cold 


When I still see reflected, your dark eyes, looking back at me


Which carries a hint of your sweet snarl, encased within a smile. I once used to call, heaven sent. 


But when those loving sensations slowly fade


And life winds once more, blows my way


And the mind fog, stops rolling in from my mind's, Highlands


Returning me to Reality Island


Just know, my twin flame in my Eternal White Room


I still carry you and your beautiful name, to the tomb


Deep inside, wherever I go


For your husky voice always rides and rules my internal highways, whenever I smell that so loved perfume 


Like a reborn Gail 

In a New Sin City

Called The Hippocampus


A place I call too, like George Kelby Jr. 


Who once went to Cross Creek trying to find forgiveness


When Doubt calls and bills me

Whenever I try to remember


Why even after all these years, I still feel so guilty 


About there no longer being, a living tale about us


(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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