(A lone voice whispers)
With wide crystalline eyes
Fluctuating between ever-shifting layers of happiness and fear
Ever watchful
With piercing orbs of either tranquil brown green or blue
So deeply captivating whispering in their echo chambers
I really see you
So I compose this small golden trinket
To some a tiny poem
But to those in the know
A spell
Whilst lost in these yellow sands of time
As I swirl through this fluctuating vortex
Will you read my offerings
As your minds listen to my gift of meter and rhyme
Can you feel that quickly rising crescendo of desire
Willing you to burn forever in my molten flames and yell
"Libertas"
Inside internally
A new means to help extinguish those painful fires
Of such misery still found upon
Those tired old redundant roads of humanities dark traits
You may still walk upon
But wait
Will you pray to me and implore for more
To push open the once-locked doors between us
Shall I welcome you through my red gates
My new neophyte
To sit by the Babylonian River to talk
And be reborn
Into a new light
Do you seek a pathway through the dark woods
Of Neverland
To walk to a sacred place where you are sensuously
Bathed and embraced
As we
The Maenad
Read you and see all those distant places
In your minds eye
Where you once courageously visited and stood
Do you still dream of taking off that shield you wear to protect your soul
Your version of an Eyes Wide Shut mask
And entering such a safe and non judgemental sanctuary
Hidden within divine branches and creeks
Where you are perpetually energized
And no longer feel weary
Unloved or weak
Do these sudden paroxysms turn your emotions
Once cold as ice to a new fire
I merely still ask
Will you take my hand forever
To walk past these dying lights of midnight
To a enter a new realm
Filled with such hushed and unexplored mortal and spiritual delights
What says you
Shall I come about two
To collect you
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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