The Crimson Priestess

 

The Crimson Priestess

(A lone voice whispers)

Within my dark lucid dreams

She always appears

Sending me deep spiritual treasures

To see and absorb by my Golden Scrying Mirrors

In the silvery moonlights many reflective walls

Which are in plain view

But just hidden from all the profane

No matter what they do

My Crimson Priestess

Hailing from the mythical Red Church

A legendary palace filled with a multitude of dark confessional rooms

Hidden from mortal eyes

Only accessed by a select few

Either above or below

And only known to them who are truly in the know

Come listen and hear my sweet calls

And join me upon your life’s quest

She always whispers when I dream

There's a red room in here

With crimson silk sheets adorned with diamonds and gold

Where you can be my guest forever

Until you're old and when we finally lay together

If you're courageous enough

You'll never get cold

I'll send you ancient spells to drive your mortal success

Compassion and kindness

To leave for others

To follow in your footsteps

I await in the deep ravines

Currently unexplored by you

Look deep within yourself tonight

And with the thinning of the purple veil

Between your world and mine

Just after the stroke of midnight

I'll appear before your eyes and reclaim your mind

I'll take you back

Through all the dark corridors of the hidden cities and towns

To a Red Church of such spiritual salvation

And there I will trace with my soft fingertips

Along your spines road maps

The route to a new sensuous discovery

And introduce you into exotic tempestuous realms

Of such redemption

That you will plead to stay and never return

But it's here in this very room

I see and whisper to you from

That tonight your ticket to a glorious new world

You'll earn

Now summon me and just say three times

Blessed Be

Blessed Be

Blessed Be

Copyright John Duffy

The Confessions of Jacob in Death

The Confessions of Jacob in Death

(A lone voice whispers)

To the ones who might have needed a bright light

To help push back the encroaching darkness

To the ones who might have needed a friend

To stand by their side

In the great stillness as they tried to contend with a tragic illness

And strove to build new bridges

To reach unique plateaus where they could mend

To the beautiful ones

I'll probably never see or hear from again

Old friendships

Lovers and all those bound by something so sacred between us

That was previously so metaphysical that it always appeared so endless

Just know this

You were never truly alone

For in all my early morning dreams and late-night prayers

We still walked hand in hand through all weathers

For all those separated year's together

For you're still to me so damn precious

And when God asked me

In this great magnificent silence

I now live within

Now I'm free from the dark reaches of siIn this swirling grey smoke and as I stood before him for my final confession

I just said, Lord, I hope they who cannot be named will forgive me

For in that old life

I was sometimes so reckless

And the Lord said, I forgive you, Jacob

For you were at one time just human filled with so much moving confusion

And now in here as you and I look at all your past moments in life

As they are reviewed in a new form of holy communion

You'll eventually realise it's why you sometimes had to walk through your own fire

So your soul could learn

As all those human weaknesses linked to living with temptation and sin burns

It is the same with all souls

And it's why I decreed that you be born

So you can all see the true beauty of love and feel the tragedy of heartbreak before you return

A more pure soul ready to find them once more sometime in the future

In my Silver City of no end

And again be a new lover or friend

But this time around

Purged of all confusion weaknesses and heartbreak

So love can help you all find a common ground to stand upon

For that incredible spark, you all once shared

Will into eternity always live on

Copyright John Duffy

The echoes of a voice who sometimes visits.

Salute.