If chronic pain could speak

If chronic pain could speak

(A lone voice whispers)

Will you please courageously save all your sad tears

To welcome me as your majesty when I decide to come your way

Do you still want me to hurt you

When I call to play

Can your tired eyes feel me slowly coming with my marching band

While they line up behind me grinning and drumming

As we slowly creep up your spine and venture like Alexander the Great

Into the deeper recesses of your mind

To gleefully open up all the blackest of doors to the darkest of sleepless nights

It's never too late

Faith never said you had to walk to me bravely 

Like a hopeless victim all alone

Over all those green hills before you start eating all those deliciously medicated pills

With no one to help as you fight

Are you strong enough to break through the zone to release all those painful secrets

Or will you choose to live a life based on a false alarm

One that rings whenever you feel my soft touch heralding weakness

My advice to you

Pray for hope to help you cope

Surround yourself with a great circle of family and friends

For I'm one of the hardest to love

But still, I'll test you

That I can guarantee

For I push all known mortal hidden envelopes

As I try to keep you in the corner

Struggling on the ropes

Whenever I call by and make you try a drop of me

Just you wait

I'll soon call to visit

You'll see

Copyright John Duffy

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Is all love just based on risk?

A lone voice whispers)

When you're with me
Skin touching skin

All aglow and entwined like climbing wild green ivy

Through long hot days and erotically charged nights

And I am exclusively voluntarily consumed

Hypnotised and spellbound

By your seductive powers to bind me

Until we are totally exhausted

Spent
Sated

But no longer seeking strands and tendrils of sleep

When we are seated close together

By a roaring hot fire

Looking deep into each other’s piercing dark eyes

Remembering lost lonely nights and loathsome days apart

But now consecrated and desecrated

By smouldering delicious French kisses

And reverberating within beating twin hearts

Has now Love entered our small once lonely world

And are we now touched

Has what seemed too much

And outrageously once out of our reach

Is this now what we just worship and gloriously clutch as it preaches

Do we now kiss passionately and true

Like it was our divine
common prayer

Going to newer unexplored heights

Where smouldering
French Kisses will take us

If we dare

For are you now my priceless bouquet of red roses

And I now your trusted crown of thorns

Betrothed to be together

Since the first day, we were born

Now looking hypnotically

Deep into each other’s bright eyes

Remembering lost nights and lonely days

Laying apart

Of lost smouldering hot kisses and individual beating hearts

Is this second time around

Just a refresher course

Or is it a reckless emotionally filled destructive

Metaphorical Trojan Horse

Are our long nights together
Going to slowly disintegrate

Has Love arrived

But are we just damaged and it's now too late

Will this perceived love
Transform into a new hate

But as I look deep into your hypnotic bright eyes

I know you were worth the wait

My last throw of the dice
My last hand full of cards
My last risk

Before I just wither and die

Hoping my soul found its soulmate and no longer needs to cry

Copyright John Duffy

If The Alphabet had a voice?

My name is William, will you listen?

If you were worth nothing like shades of me or affluent beyond all worldly compare

I would still try to subsist beside you and just try to love you

If you were intimidated depressed frightened

Or just weighed down with life and all its intense cold heartbreaking  baggage

I would gladly rush in to help you carry all your heavy burdens by writing

If you were uncontrollably mad or just completely incessantly emotionally and incredibly sad

I would quickly reach out with empathy overflowing with an electrifying all-consuming passion

To just embrace you in a considerable hug of complete gratification

To find a new playing field

Where we can embrace like two crazy syllabi in debauched compassion

If you ever needed some love and light in the middle of a lifetime

Anytime between early morning to way past midnight

I would just simply appear through inspired lines and prose

To hold you tightly

Simply to remind you as we run this life-changing course together

All your feelings of guilt happiness or pain are also mine too

As we swim in these dark waters as life chases us down

Filled with no remorse

If you needed anything profound beyond my care or abilities

I would just try to truly comfort you

For one can never be better than two

For ours is but a silent union dear reader

An unspoken pledge

A binding treaty between your lustful hungry emotional eyes

And my hypnotic mesmerising words

Free from physical excesses but entwined and spinning endlessly

Lost in the spiritual cosmos beyond time and space

Serenading our opened third eye

As we

With your invitation of course

Ride over crisp paper landscapes like lunatics

Dressed up in blue-black red or green

Or simply appearing born into a new unknown life

As your fingertips conduct a symphonic symphony

On your choice of screens

Where we can visit newer realms

Perhaps overflowing in deep rivulets of murky depravities

Happiness 
Sadness or even personal realities linked to sin

Well, oh inquisitive one
Shall we begin?

Copyright John Duffy

Tales From the Astral Realms

 With a wave, his fingers clad with rings of silver and gold

He too disappears as Estelle as she says she’s called 

Appears

Smiling serenely, she speaks

"I just speak of the loneliness of love, and the slow acceptance of facing the sadness, it sometimes brings.

Love is divine but sometimes so rebelliously unkind.

In a vision, I still just stand as your faithful servant.

A heart and spirit forever awaiting your presence.

A pulsating entity

Gracefully and consciously anticipating your call.

As I stand hidden in the long shadows.

By a lonely stream of fast-flowing emotions.

We in the Great In-Between just call.....

The River of Life's Lessons."

Copyright John Duffy 

The Confession of Jacob in Death

(A lone voice whispers)

To the ones who might have needed a bright light to help push back the encroaching darkness

To the ones who might have needed a friend to stand by their side 

In the great stillness as they tried to try to contend with a tragic illness

And strove to build new bridges

To reach unique plateaus where they could mend

To the beautiful ones, I'll never probably see or hear from again

Old friendships

Lovers and all those bound by something between us 

That was previously so metaphysical that it always appeared so endless

Just know this 

You were never truly alone for in all my early morning dreams and late-night prayers 

We still walked hand in hand through all weathers

For all those separated year's together 

For you're still to me so damn precious 

And when God asked me in this great magnificent silence 

I now live within now I'm free from the dark reaches of sin

In this swirling grey for my final confession 

I just said, 

Lord

I hope they who cannot be named will forgive me

For in that old life

I was sometimes so reckless 

And the Lord said,

I forgive you, Jacob 

For you were at one time just human filled with so much moving confusion 

And now in here as you and I look at all your past moments in life

As they are reviewed in a new form of holy communion

You'll eventually realize it's why you sometimes have to walk through your own fire 

So your soul can learn

As all those human weaknesses linked to living with temptation and sin burns 

It is the same with all souls

And it's why I decreed that you be born 

So you can all see the true beauty of love and feel the tragedy of heartbreak before you return

A more pure soul ready to find them once more sometime in the future 

In my Silver City of no end

And again be a new lover or friend

But this time around

Purged of all confusion weaknesses and heartbreak 

So love can help you all find a common ground to stand upon

For that incredible spark, you all once shared 

Will into eternity always live on

Copyright John Duffy 

This echoes of a voice who sometimes visits. 

Salute.

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(A lone voice whispers)

My dearest Sarai

My red rose who I once met in downtime Chicago right of the blue

I just want to absorb all the sweet things

I see and worship about you

That glorious compassion reflected in your sometimes sad face

The incredible sensuality of your inviting warm smile

Which whispers of unspoken places upon luscious red lips

To revere within an extraordinary escape

From the deep rivers of this life's so tenuous rat race

The gracefulness of your delicate but firm touches

Likened to a nurse delivering care to a beloved patient

But without any watchers or repercussions

That shy dark stillness hidden behind your twin mirrors

That shines like a bright beacon to fellow sinners

I just want to absorb everything to help me breakthrough

All the hypnotic threads binding me to whatever

I see in you

Which holds me captive like a lost French soldier

Defeated at his own version of Waterloo

So when you can't see the true validity of yourself

When that incredible glimmer and shine that you inject within all those hungry souls hanging around you

Starts to fade and you slowly feel like you're falling off the shelf

Transforming into someone else's version of you that they feed and compel

To complete their spell

When you're ready to break free and that mesmerising originality needs to renew

I just want to be the only one you look to

To help you pull through  

 

Copyright John Duffy 

 

A dash of fun on a rather quiet Sunday morning. Salute.

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(A lone voice whispers)

When you love someone  

  

Did you know you give birth to a magical supernatural golden thread

Which connects you to them like happy newlyweds

The thread may shimmer and shake

It may glow bright and if they leave

Through death or other reasons to make your soul grieve

It just goes thinner for through its acts of magical summation

If you were betrothed the chance to read the tees and cees in the agreement proposition

Hidden all the way down to the last page

Written in the tiniest small print

You'd read a line articulated so eloquently

In a brief sentence that appears so succinct

Stating it will never break

Could that be the incredible justification why you feel perhaps compelled to think of those you might still adore

As if under their spell

Regardless of the intense feelings fluctuating like lovelorn green butterflies

Around love and hate

That connection you once made that was always foretold in the Amber Books of Fate

The Golden Thread

A connection for souls who once laid entwined and in the low hours

Said majestic things which once spoken

Gave birth to an unseen thing which can never be unsaid until the day it withers and dies

As you too lay vulnerable and powerless on your own deathbed

Copyright John Duffy

The Red Beast

 Like a carnivorous supernatural dark omnipotent creature

Emotion looked upon her endless armies of lustful recruits

Sending so many fluctuating frequencies spanning the lit up Earth and smiled

Oh, how Love plays its part so eloquently

As her other hungry soldiers line up diligently and hungrily behind it in twos

Jealously  

Anger  

Betrayal  

Rage  

Adultery  

Control  

Liar  

And Cheater

To name some of her favourite few

Copyright John Duffy

Are there dark supernatural forces at work that try to ruin love?

Some hidden stories in The Lost Books of Dysak speak of such things. Salute.

Shadows and Lights

(A lone voice whispers)

The human condition has always been the ultimate palette

A mixture of deep shadows and bright unforgiving lights

Personal contentment infused with heartbreaking pain

Dancing in tandem all over this beautiful planet

And as with all things in life, two things constantly remain

Duality

For as much as we shine our own blessed light

We must be aware of not casting our negativity through other subtle means or interactions

For the growing darkness may try to consume you subtly

We all must at one point in our lives

Pivot and see past our darkest factions

For to face our innermost fears is to cleanse them with hope courage and tears

Will you have the courage to pivot and face your darkness

To then stand proudly like a true soul champion and hold your weary candle higher

So that others can better see their own dark shadows

To help guide them out life’s deep and sometimes dark meadows

Will you encourage lost souls to dance with their devils in the pale moonlight

To dare to embrace with all their might

Some distressing emotional issues they might need to drag out into the light

For the souls expedition is not to save the many layers of mankind or to preach

But rather to refine your own and others

If they appear willingly and ask for help

Within your reach

Our heart and soul has always been our divine grand work

Just that we sometimes forget as clerks and lose our minds in the process

So let’s hack Life

Let's condition the ordinary to be extraordinary

Let's commission compassion and love to be our brave standard-bearers

Let's tap into the divine by cleansing the deep depths of our minds

And let’s celebrate our life as our darkness unwinds

Let's dare to live within our own grand cleansing and make that grand balancing and correlation

A means to defeat the armies of infernal damnation

For to never seek internal happiness and all its incredible celebrations

As you still live through life and its ever-changing constellations

Is simply a desecration that's inexcusable

So let's levitate life with acts of invocations of kindness

To rise above all dictators and their acts of subjugation

To stand together and rise higher in jubilation  

  

As we embrace the true validation of who we are

And glow brighter from that soul-changing revelation

That we only require our own thoughts of self-acceptance to revel in that pivotal acquisition

That we are unique beyond all those who try to defeat us with their lies and cheap jealous accusations

Copyright John Duffy

A piece inspired by a beautiful friend of mine from Google+ who once so radiated such positive energy.  

This is for you.

Lyn Weiss.

Your star still shines in 2021. 

Hera's final love letter to Zeus

 

(A lone voice whispers)

I never prayed to get so deeply embedded within your mind

I never cursed you to only think of me all the time

Is that why you return every morning or at midnight after all you've done with I

Remembering all those sweet-tasting memories before we crossed that tragic red finish line

But you're just someone else chasing the unquenchable and heights of immortal glory

Surrounded by love-struck worshippers like grey clouds

Who salivate at all your incredible mendacious tall stories

Metaphorical flesh and blood followers

Hypnotised and stuck knee-deep in the dire clutches of humanities deep deluge and mud

I didn't want to break your heart

So maybe it's a good thing we're so far apart

Just another pair of extrovert tragic star-struck lovers

Lost upon a lonely beach

Looking for some light or just something to lead our way forward

Towards a new soul flame who might risk all for us

As we still looked and searched

Willing to swallow our red pill and risk getting hurt

Someone new who maybe just out of reach

Walking all alone waiting for someone too

On that lonely soul-destroying beach

Perhaps Love is a losing game

A sad yellow book filled with so many lonely endless names

Maybe one day mine will disappear from its neverending archives as true love appears

Maybe it won't

Maybe I'll still be alone as they all cry and watch me as I'm buried six feet under

Into that Mount Olympus cold dirt

But at least then in those final acts of spiritual closure

I can peacefully ascend as I'll no longer hurt

Copyright John Duffy

A dash of creativity on a rather serene Sunday morning. At least it hasn't rained. Salute.