Baptised heartbroken
For forty long days and nights
Gathered Dark souls smiled
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Foundation of the piece.
Some mystics say:
Lower vibrational beings feed off humanity's pain and anguish.
What a feast they must - have when they see a new resident of their invisible, Heartbreak Hotel.
Salute.
(A lone voice whispers)
I once found myself
At such a young age
While looking into
The sweet eyes of Another
Until they closed forever
So we couldn't be together.
On the fifteenth of May in 2022
Oh how I miss
The dearly beloved love
Of my mother
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(A lone voice whispers)
Lost between two shimmering portals
By the Palodorian Green Sea
I once looked for the golden light
From the metaphysical tent
Of the golden-haired warríor
A beautiful descendants of the spiritually powerful
Cherokee
And saw over dystopian planes of existence
Where she lay
Remembering
The last time we spoke was on the fifth of May
It rained and I could sense she was in pain
So I sent over a red raven letter
In it, I wrote in bright golden letters
Rise up fire girl
And get better
Shine those incredible eyes upon the world
Seize your strength and glory and tell your story
Use poetry
Prose and whatever else but you need to
To cleanse yourself
Today as I light my white candles of peace
And remember a few souls
That I once had the pleasure to know
But no longer grow
I think of her alone in that tent
Surrounded by books by Whitman
Silver and glass
And wonder
Where do we go from here
Can I rekindle a friendship in her darkest hours
Will her heart allow us
If I ask
By a strange coincidence
She sent back a red raven letter
In it
In big letters
Was handwritten in silver ink
Where do we go from here
For I've shed so many wet tears
Been in between the light and dark
Between two almighty powers
Saw things to make your soul sink
And as I look now from my scrying mirror
Through the upside-down AlunaWorld
I can see her smoke from a campfire rising
And deep down inside
I'm just so glad to see that she's still surviving
As I pen my letter but like all complications in life
I'm struggling to find words that still need saying
Before replying
For a silent painful question always cries out
From my soul in fear
A low whisper that says
Has our deep love disappeared
And where do we go from here
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(A lone voice whispers)
When these moonlit clouds part
Like the Red Sea
At midnight
As I stare at the long-lost stars
So far away
I always remember
A heart-stopping recollection
That still binds
When true love
Seemed so simple
Especially now
As memories of you
Light up the dark pools
Of my mind
With all their much-loved ripples
With cherished things I pray, I'll never leave behind
As pictures of warm inviting smiles
Continuously float to the surface
Capturing a time
When love was so trusting and kind
Where we said at our local church
Our much-cherished line
A line I whispered in joy
As I looked over at you
The life-changing two syllables
Called
I do
Time may have tried to rewrite every emotion
But your memories
Will always
Stay enshrined
In all the mysterious inner sanctums
Of my mind
And floating in their many unexplored oceans
Some of the Heartbroken may choose to forget
But I love drowning in the bright lights
Glowing
In those pools of memories
Of our life-changing romance
Getting soaking wet
Remembering extraordinary times
Filled with no regrets
For life sometimes gives us someone special
To hold onto
And I'm just proud
I found you
And took that chance
As life's music played
We've Only Just Begun
By The Carpenters
To slow dance with you
Underneath the Midnight Sun
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(A lone voice whispers)
I hope she still waits
That rebellious wild woman
Of such irreducible taste
Whose aura glistens with incredible glimmer and sublime guile
With stunning bright eyes
That still shines with the illustrious glow
Of that illuminated flame
Which was once stolen
By brave Prometheus
From Heaven's Dark Skies
Enhancing her beautiful face
Making her look like Morgana the Cunning Sorceress
Written about in the Immortal Arthurian Legends
From where all her pagan blood flows
She holds me
You know
Like a lone pawn
Enthralled in a grip of steel
As I try to break down
Her carefully constructed walls
To work out how she feels
When I see her in here
Standing tall
Adorned in Black and Red leather
Within these dark woods
I find myself
Lost in
At the stroke of every midnight
Where we still meet as I stroll
After I lure her away
From so singing eloquently
In her candlelit salt circle
To Mother Moon and ever watching Father Grey Sky
As his white clouds roll
Where she utters strange ancient spells
Unknown to most
As she conquers all
Who dare come into view
Before they can yell
Like me
It's why I still visit
For I can never leave
For I'm just hypnotised
And invoked like another lonely fool
To be
Deceived forever
By the delicious sounds
Of her golden ringing
Summoning bells
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Life isn't all smiles and sweet chocolates
My beloved Justine
For to die a poet like me
Spreading my stories
Like visceral steam from The Great In-Between
Is to know
Living a Life
Filled with different levels of emotional disarray
Was worth it
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(A lone voice whispers)
Wiping away some of these painful tears
While looking up at this blue sky
To all my watching invisible fans
As the Black Birds play
In this neverending vision of
Fools Paradise
I guess I'm still filled with some unexplored fears
Fears
That I never threw the dice
And never took a chance
To ask you
To come home as my wife
Where it could have been so nice
I just tell myself now
To smile
When I think of how that simple act of self-sacrifice
Could have changed my life
With a single wet kiss of peace
For the Low Men
In the Midnight Sky
Above
Always watching
Who in daylight
I can never see
But when I deep dream at night
In Lands of Lucidity
I see them
Always gathering in huge burning paranormal circles
In wild rotating figures of eight
To whisper whenever they hear my soul's nightly screams and cries
Time and time again
Whenever I dare to dream and pray
That
I'm eventually one day
I'm going to climb over all the icy hurdles
And win
That I'm going to find happiness and joy
And all the sweetest things
I once dreamed of
When I was a little boy
Especially when they see me
Drowning in dark perilous
Purple pools of broken dreams and despair
Filled with sliding colliding images of old sins
Which compels them to gather together and whisper in droves
To sing down to me
With a dreamy symphony
To the only one
Who sees them and knows
The true king of their many midnight shows
And with a rising chant and tempo
From The Realms of their hidden Star Groves
They summon my attention
So I know I'm their Star
The entertainment of the moment
They all watch from afar
It's time to move on
They joyously sing
To remind me
Don't try to stay strong and drown
But sing this song
From us
To get stronger and stronger
Sing
I'm moving on
I'm moving on
Before you join us
In the fast-moving universe's dust
For sometimes to live in pain
Is so wrong
Even though it
Breaks your heart
Even if your heart bleeds
Sing
So I'm moving on
For it's what your heart needs
Then they wait
Watching for my tears to stop
In their fluctuating halo's of eight
All smiling
Dressed in dark cloaks of blue and hue
Only to then disappear
Like a flicker of a light switch
Into their huge burning paranormal gates
Into the wispy Grey Ether
As my soul stops crying
And takes a well-needed breather
From all the pain caused
When I decided to leave her
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I'll find you one day
As long as I live
Someone to love me
As I love you
With all
I can give
I've searched the high misty mountains and lowland streams
And everything else
That lies in-between
And I'll keep looking until the end of time
Looking for someone special
Like you
To hold my hand
Someone to dance with
In tune with some of God's bands
Someday
Somehow
Some way
Late in the low hour
I'm going to appear like an unstoppable power
For to hold you in my arms
Would be to hold the most treasured prize
Most mundane men could only dream of
Until they are cold ghosts
So I'll keep searching coast to coast
As I leave this note for you
My precious angel
In case you're searching for me too
Here
At the end of the known world's last outpost
As I move on
To the mythical
Black Tower
And open up its eternal gateposts
Praying it's there you'll be waiting
Standing smiling
With open arms at the entrance
To a happier place
Filled with no mistakes
But if not
It's me you'll see when you find this
Standing smiling
When you too
Walk through those mystical black gateposts
Where I'll be waiting for you
You
You
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You are the coveted cascade of warm emotions
Within this old life
Filled and overflowing with frosty cold dreams
The raw power to melt the iceberg embracing my very soul
Holding me like a helpless prisoner
In my many deeply hidden
Underground streams
All the passing seasons' love songs
Lost in the throes of Spring
Summer Autumn and Winter
Are just
Filled with heartfelt choruses
That reminds me of that eternal soft kiss
Of exquisite red lips
That left a fingerprint on my hearts window
I once tasted so long ago and even still now
After all this time
Will always miss
The assurance of our eventual return
An unspoken pact to be together forever
Sings a sweet symphony into Heaven's silvery mists
A divine melody of unchained excitement
To break all chains of my mortal confinement
Like whispers of an abundance of salacious lyrics and captivating poetry
Filled with joyous lines of a pain-free existence
Merged and infused with surreal magic at its deep centre
Moving freely with no resistance
It sings its own mesmerising verses of Danse du Ventre
And from the opened mouths of ethereal silhouettes
Swirling all around me as I sleep
I always hear your soul’s deep call
Dépêche toi mon amour
(Hurry up my love)
Asking me to appear and hold on to you forever
Before this treacherous glass bridge, we walk upon
Breaks and falls
And as I appear to claim you as the slippery dark shadows advance
In my deep dreams
I always stand in awe and watch in a hypnotic trance
As you perform your sensuous sword dance
To announce to the watching spirits
Our newly found preordained romance
My Goddess
My Queen
My mystical lover and soulmate from The Great In-Between
My beloved wife
Melusine
Who once showed me when she lived
The mystifying beauty to be found
In carnal sin
The mundane world has ever seen
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