The Monologue of The Toll Keeper

 

 (A lone voice whispers)

Do you want to hear some whispered rules from the Great In-Between

The Fourth Dimension 

Well, here goes

Number 1

Find an everlasting love song

Knee-deep in lust for a real-life

And make

Number 2

Unrequited love

The Rebellious Song of the Transformational

As you throw away its emotional sharp knife

Make number 3

A layer cake of evocative delicious delights

To be explored and greedily devoured with your dearly beloved

Hidden from the watching dark shadows  

Like thieves all around you

In the middle of any given night

And find number 4

The ancestral strength in midnight memories and ritualistic ceremonies

Of deep meaningful love 

Within echoes from those now out of sight

Ascended so high above 

To regain number 5

The strength to carry on and fight to finally

Find loves hidden highways and as you take flight

To embrace the sacred thought that your Guardian Angels

Always watch over and protect you and your family and friends in every way

Especially at night with their unspoken prayers

And you my beautiful child 

Will be okay 

In all of your life's affairs

Whatever angels or demons 

Some of our earthly concessionaires

For upstairs or downstairs

Whisper or say

When they come out to play

 

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Copyright John Duffy

Did love break you?

 Corazón

(A lone voice whispers)

When your Corazón

Broke you in two 

Like America

With the war on cotton

Did you become one of Corazón orphan's

Filled with precautions

Praying for another's heart

In the long run

As you weighed up newer options 

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What does Corazón mean in English?

The heart.

Foundation of the piece.

Are the once broken more selective?

Eternal Love

 Eternal Love 

(A lone voice whispers)

A pure love once found 

Before birth

At the beginning

Then once lost

While crossing the Great Barrier and Frost 

To walk on mortal grounds

With those mesmerized by sinning

Through gold and pleasure 

Is a beauty bound

To search for

In all weathers 

By the longing sounds

That forever

Binds and calls to

Two souls 

Entwined and enshrined 

To come together 

By once hearing

Angels singing 

In unison

As Time 

Unwinds

In a profound place 

When lovers 

First met 

Before crossing the Great Barrier and Frost 

To get their souls wet

In the mortal lands of sinning

Unknowingly knowing 

They were marked 

Before birth

As lovers

At the beginning 

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Foundation of the piece.

Do we have a true soulmate, once met before birth, and are we just drawn unconsciously to find them?

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Growing up

 

Growing up

(A lone voice whispers)

Do you remember your first encounter with libido

That wild exhilarating

deep dive into the unknown

The first kiss leading to home base

As ecstasy consumed your whole psyche and face

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Foundation of the piece.

Do you, maybe after all these years, still remember your first love, wherever you go?

 

The Mage

 

Which realm do you live within?

(A lone voice whispers)

The Dimension of Thought and the Material World

The Third Spiritual Dimension

Controlled and led blindly by these realities of thoughts of some sorts

I'm Mortal and so fragile

That I need to find some sort of power to help defeat or rule others

Because I'm so driven to need society things

And all things hinge

On the big indeed of

I need someone to make me feel truly whole 

Or are you a spiritual traveller like me 

Who likes to take close control of magical spaces

And races into

A Higher World

On top of this material world

To The Fourth Dimension

Where anything is possible beyond comparison or comprehension 

From ideas

Conceptions 

Interactions and spiritual 

Projections

To drive

Words and actions like supernatural flowing poetry 

In a divine form of symmetry 

For jumping from the Third to the Fourth while one lives 

Can help one prepare for the 5th

Heaven and the Plane of Light

Where God 

In whatever form with its judgement persists

And you

It might just forgive 

For by living

We are all spiritual beings living through conflicts

Awaiting judgment 

Like convicts

When it's time

For our Inter-Dimensional-Planes

To shift 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

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Life

 

Every day, I die inside

Quietly 

Hiding what I feel

As my alter

Takes control of my mind's

Steering wheel

Foundation of the piece.

Does the days and years seem to drift 

As the real you

Hides 

Alone 

Lost within the mind's mists?

From relationships to work.

Are modern relationships just driven and maintained by endless mundane repetition?

(C)

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Memories

  (A lone voice whispers)

I heard I'd lost a much cherished friend today

Such a wild joker

Irrepressible smile

Epic rave dancer 

In her tight black jumpsuit 

Wearing tiger balm and red lipstick 

Who I loved to talk to on those 90s old black telephones

Rolled into one ball of irresistible energy 

Oh, we had such irreversible fun whilst we were young but cancer

Came calling in her later years

And she got shot by his bright white SV40 gun 

So now I grieve

For like so many others

Those we once loved

No matter how brief 

From January to December 

We always love them more when we remember 

As their fire burns low

But never goes out

Like a never-ending 

Bonfire night ember

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Has someone taken you for granted?

 

Genetic, environmental, and social behaviorism.

(A lone voice whispers)

Some people today, don't abide by the royal seals of light, trust and loyalty.

They just joyously abide by the dark sides, cruel seals of impropriety and disloyalty.

(C) 

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Foundation of the piece.

In today's culture, do people seem more likely to take advantage of someone, regardless of the impact?

Due to cultural norms, linked to taking people for granted, and the rising lack of gratitude, leading to relinquishing loyalty to those, who once helped them?

From work, family to friends.

Have you encountered this rather low level of engagement?

HMS Philanderer

(A lonely voice whispers)

Like my ship

The Philanderer 

I've sailed through love

Like an eager Christopher Columbus

Only to now ride the mythical number ten bus

To the sad lands of

Numbus

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Foundation of the piece.

Are modern dating platforms, creating a playground, when quantity is valued above quality, in lasting relationships?

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Relationships

Relationships

Do old memories (5)

Materialize quickly (7)

At random moments (5)

And from their sounds and visual delights

Aren't we just hoarders of all we feel

To carry like thieves

Into 

The longest of dark nights 

(C)

Copyright John Duffy

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