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Will you walk with me?

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Narrated by the superb, Clinton R. Johnson. 

The Watchers

Taking my turn 

To look through the Scrying Glass

As my given 

Time candle burns

Whenever I see 

You

I miss you

Like the Sun

Misses the Moon

On a cloudy Sunday

Afternoon

Miss

Your sweet smile

As wide as a country mile

Miss

Your voice

And tender tones

To beguile

.

And as my time candle

Burns

Low

As Jerome

Nods

Waiting his go

In that brief

Nanosecond

We share a linked

Thought

That we all know

As much as the

Living miss 

The Dead

We too 

Miss those 

Tranquil moments

Left for all

Eternity

Unsaid

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Relationship Flaws

 The Human Experience

Part 1

Relationship Flaws

Into the circle of fire

I stepped

Hoping 

To be baptised

With Love

And sex

Only to feel

Lonely

Used

And abused

As my

Lover

Moved on

To the next

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Is your life but a film you watch one day?

 Is your life but a film you watch one day? 

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The Revelations

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The Reformed Soul

Last time

I saw you

Calling my way

Was the sixth

Of May

And oh lord

You had so 

Much to say

Cos you

Sure loved

Complaining

Where you

At

Who you with 

Time you home

But Mary

It's a leap of faith

When loves hand

You blindly take

For there's so much

Middle ground 

To help forget old

Mistakes

For real hearts

Do really break

When there's no hope

Of

Escape

But from Sacramento

To the green hills

In Rome

I know I promised

To try 

To

Make it home

That last night

Before our big 

Fight

But little 

By Little

You kept

Firing your

Lips pistols

Making

My soul itch

Like Scotch Fiddle

So here

Tonight

Now

I'm in the Great In-Between

After

Floating out of

That cold old hospital

After taking

Too much white powder

And liquor 

I know I did promise

I'd visit

So  

In spirit

Here I am

And in these words

Remember

That young man 

The young man

You once knew 

And met

In The Shady Lady Saloon

In Sacramento

On that lovely Sunday

Afternoon 

Before our world

Turned black and

Blue

So I'm just calling by

To say goodbye

For Terri Anne

My spirit guide waits

To take me

To the Lords

Great Halls

To stand

Once more tall

Before my last ever

Fateful fall

Don't go blaming

Yourself

I ain't complaining

Put away those pistols

And try to stop

Hurting

This is my last kiss

Before

In that Great Hall

I pull back the red stage curtain

You'll be ok

Of this

I'm certain

Just

Remember me

The man 

Who you  once met 

On that 

Unforgettable 

Sunday afternoon 

In The

Shady Lady Saloon

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The Stocks of Love

 We once walked unbeaten

Like unashamed lovers 

In our mysterious

Garden of Eden

With soft smiles

Hands held tight

With a glint of Heaven

In our eyes

Every day and night

When we surveyed 

Our New Kingdom

In ecstatic delight

But time and the heavy

Baggage of life

Stuck 

Fates razor sharp 

Ritualistic knife

Called 

Lady Mistrust

Into the twin red balloons

Floating above us

That served as our 

Unbreakable bond

Mine blew away

On June the fourth

And flew North

After yours 

In May

Up to Somewhere

Where the 

Starlings play

But 

Oh how we had 

Some fun

Though

Minds kept

Sharp

With emotions

Running hot

As our thoughts

Entwined

Underneath the 

Midnight sun

So now with 

Lips and voice

Unused 

Mind 

Bashful and bruised

I retreat

Into this

Great darkness

To stand

Sad and

Handcuffed 

By the side of the other

Low men and women

In this new grey world

Swimming with

Father Darkness 

In the shadows

Standing 

Still

With nowhere to go

As his Devils sing

From high rocks

Their endless verse

Urging me to join 

Their huge chorus line

"This is the price

Of love

Of our Brethren

When heartbreak

Consumes

Your soul

And holds

You in our

Eternal stocks

To line up

In the cold

And sing 

To sing

The pain out. 

This is the price

Of love

Of our Brethren

When heartbreak

Consumes

Your soul

And holds

You in our

Eternal stocks

To line up

In the cold

And sing 

To sing

The pain out"

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Copyright John Duffy

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Freedom

Have you tasted the black wine

Of trying to live a life 

Through rivers

Of fast flowing

Desolation 

And one filled with a marching Mariachi band

Playing the Vihuela and Guitarrón

Taking turms

Singing about your pain

As they play on

And on

About living a life

With nothing to gain

Surrounded by 

Kukulkan dark soldiers 

Of an unseen nation

From 

The Great In-Between

Chanting mantras of shame

With

 Coniunge ordines nostros et inveniet libertatem

(Join our ranks and find freedom)

Living a life without emancipation 

Blamed

Like a new Eve

For all bad things

Conceived

Lost in a schism of time

Hovering like a Hummingbird

Between the fluctuating streams

Of two worlds

As they burn

Like blue and green

paper cups

Broken dreams

Of love

Hope and peace

Even yellow cups of sadness with no release 

This prophetic dream

Of a Paradise Lost

I am shut down with

Every night 

As I shudder in the cold

As that familiar story 

Like a dark Hollywood picture 

Unfolds

But there is a new calling 

A new voice 

Summoning my soul

With soft sounds of

 Keep going

For soon you'll find

Victory and peace

I hear her whispering to my centrepiece

A haunting place 

Of grey walls

Now echoing

Within audacious dreams

With her sweet voice

Above the noise

Of Kukulkan dark soldiers 

Reluctantly 

Retreating and screaming

As I follow her voice to freedom

To open new doors

So happiness

Can come

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Copyright John Duffy