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(A lone voice whispers)
When love dies
Please
I beseech you
Don't let hate grow
For that path, you then walk
With that new echo in your once soft voice as you talk
Will lead you to Saqoseth
To a dark lonely room
In one of its many prison cells
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Try to find an everlasting requiem
Something to drive you to wade knee-deep in lust for a real-life
Number Two
Make unrequited love
The rebellious Songs of the Transformational
As you throw away its emotional sharp knife
Number Three
Make a layer cake of evocative delicious delights
To be explored and devoured with your dearly beloved
Hidden from the watching dark shadows all around you
In the middle of any given night
Number Four
Find ancestral strength in midnight memories and ritualistic ceremonies
Within echoes from those now out of sight
Number Five
Regain the strength to carry on and fight to finally
Find loves hidden highways and as you take flight
If it's not already within your sight
Number Six
Embrace the soft sacred thought that your own Guardian Angels
Watch over and protect you in every single way
Especially at night with their unspoken prayers as they pray
And you my child
Will be okay
In all your lifes affairs
For every flower needs sunshine to bloom
From when the day they are born
Sadly but also happily saying goodbye to God's many Angels
Who looked after them in one of his many Waiting Rooms
To finally appearing on Earth wearing an elaborate costume and whistling and singing into life
The many prophecies embedded secretly in their lifes new tune
For as the Angelic Choirs sing here in Paradise
Hosanna
Hosanna
Every flower has the freedom to bloom
They only need a friend to help whistle their tune
Hosanna
Hosanna
Every flower has the freedom to bloom
They only need a friend to help whistle their tune
Hosanna
Hosanna
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Press play before reading.
Salute.
(A lone voice sings)
I can feel
You need this
For I saw you in a vision
And you don’t have to be a millionaire
To listen
Don’t have to spend
All your money on me
Simply hear
As I sing
If you’re feeling low
Take a seat
And I'll paint you
A vibrant picture show
With a thousand black and white words
As your world slowly
Turns
My golden pen
Will be the only true film star
My inner voice
The supporting actor
For once
I and my beautiful life
Had an amazing wife
A real cracker
And all was good
I worked hard
Earned plenty
Was known all over in the neighbourhood
As the kind of guy
Who you could always go to
If you needed anything to lift your mood
But like all good things
Something bad had to happen
She cheated
Went with another guy
A guy I’ve known all my life
Bill came in and stole my amazing wife
So now
I just sing the Blues
The painful Blues
For just for you
Last time I saw her
Was sometime around last June
It was on a cold summers day
Like outside in a Winters evening
When the Sun was going down
When it had nothing left to say
She was sat drinking fine champagne and expensive wine
She looked me over
As she had good time
Standing there pretty
Looking real fine
Smiling and knowing
She takes all my money
Every month
Took my car
My house
My pride and soul
Took them all when she walked
Right out of my door
I've lost everything
Only got ten dollars
In my coat pocket
And our wedding picture
Still around my neck
In my moms golden locket
That's why I sing the Blues
The love song of the lonely
Almighty fools
I got the Blues
Mama
It sure still hurts
I got the Blues
Mama
I see them both on a Thursday
At work
She just smiles
And winks
She's a player mama
For I know how she thinks
Bill always smiles
Looking at me like dirt
So all I got left is the Blues
Mama
As I pray for Karma
I can feel
You need this
And you don’t have to be a millionaire
To listen
Don’t have to spend
All your money on me
Simply hear
As I sing
If you’re feeling low
Take a seat
And I'll paint you
A picture show
With a thousand black and white words
As your world slowly
Turns
Oh Lord
My golden pen
Will be the star
My inner voice
The supporting actor
Oh Lord
I once had a beautiful wife and life was all
Good
I worked hard
Earned plenty
Was known all over in the neighbourhood
Oh Lord
Then she cheated
Went with another guy
A guy I’ve known all my life
Bill came in and stole my wife
Now I sing the Blues
Oh Lord
Just for you
As I kneel to pray
To hear what to do
All I can do is sing the Blues
Just for you
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
An ode to those who suffered persecution from the judgemental's.
The list is so sad.
So proud things have changed.
Salute.
I write these few words down for future inspiration
To encourage me
Before I flee to try to get through whenever
I feel the need to subdue the sharp pang of my apotheosis of my only friend
With dangerous malt whiskey
The one who ritually visits who I call Mr Damnation
For to be able to hear you whisper
So be it again
I'd be driven crazy
As I caress your precious velvety memories like a familiar shadow and admit to that grim-faced shadow of a human
My own perpetual stalker
Who's staring back at me in this faded old black mirror
Whispering that I should try to carry on
As I think back to those happier times with her
When we might have had a chance to be optimistic like so many other cross bearers
But just like every third rosy couple
Who met and tried to stay together
While wading knee-deep
in newly discovered rivers of uncertainty
Through trial and error
We were tragically pursued by the real broken phoney emotional stirrers
Those two-faced ones living in painted white houses
With twitching grey curtains made of out cheap lace to hide their judgemental faces
Those who deem themselves to be The Beautiful Ones in society
The polished and the preened
Strutting about with all their treacherous airs and graces
Just to be seen
We were unjustly discriminated against by feverish lions
Those sad losers
Who deemed our liaison
To be tainted and under their covetous judgemental eyes
To be on so many levels
Immorally corrupted and dangerously fragmented
But to you, my beloved Ophelia
Now erroneously judged
Likened to a corrupt 17th-century museum
Filled with pagan occult pictures
By a cancel culture fuelled by heathen convictions
My soon-to-be obsolete heart still sings
As it remembers those wild crazy days and passion-filled nights
When we stood firm and issued
All those endless FUs with such excitement and unbreakable rage
How we then ran away from Deep Dale
With anything, we could muster and carry
Caught a flight North and got married
Went to Las Vegas
Booked into The Bellagio
Cruised the Strip and made wild drunken oaths
To each other that we'd never be tempted to go back
No matter what news or stories we heard
Broadcasted over the TV or radio
I hope tonight
As I close my eyes for maybe the last time
As my lifelong friend
Doc Dupont says my last prayers and rites
If you didn't know I guess it's time to confess
You were always my life’s
True one and only
And I truly understand why you left so suddenly to be with them
For it's not easy trying to live with the news
Of both of your parent's sudden deaths
Even though after all these years since you've been gone
After visiting your grave every Monday
My heart still skips a beat
For I know my love channelled
through my treasured memories
Will soon
To you flow so damn easily
Reuniting you with those incredible few years
When we escaped to The Bellagio
And lived together
For a short while to renew
Free from the long reach of The Beautiful Ones
So peacefully in every way
And now as I reflect
I never knew lonely until I lost you but soon we'll be together
For Manzoni
The Italian novelist and poet appeared one supernatural dark night
And told me
Everything will be alright
And soon banners carried proudly into the 21st Century will carry your fight
(C)
Copyright John Duffy