Country Dreaming

(A lone voice whispers) I can still subliminally feel All those sad fears Rhythmically swirling like sharpened kitchen knives Within all your world crazy choices Which cuts me so deep Like cold Tamahagane steel Above all this new Life's Now old noises I can still just see you Sitting there In your darkened bedroom Somewhere Oversea Dressed in that familiar soft white lace With translucent tears Running like the Nile Down Your beautiful face Thinking of me As a lone crone In a faraway forest In triumph Sings Dances a wild jig And rejoices Overjoyed by her spells Creating such paid for turmoil Of fake excuses and tragic surprises In you For I know It's not fair What you're going through But trust me I'm Going through the fire Too For This thing we started with a match This inexplicable magical thing This molten fire that still burns so deep Like it's taboo Since we parted Reaches so deep Inside I can't sleep Can't work Can't recall How many times I've cried out Brokenhearted For I remember Those sweet salad days In 2021 Before our love Painfully crawled away and died Like a silhouette in the setting Autumnal sun When we parted ways Walking on the beach With the girl next door Who came to me Unexpectedly Like a serene gift From The Holy Sea Gently fluttering by To say hello Like a rare beautiful Glasswing Butterfly But now We're but two Lost souls With nowhere to go Just wondering round In familiar sad round circles And looking into This purple haze The very mouth of this black abyss Before me Looking at the mistakes We once made In my scrying mirror As our tarot cards Were first laid When we unexpectedly first kissed While we walked Its tired pavements Lost in its maze I pray and hope you still Think of me The ghost Who still loves his beautiful rare Glasswing butterfly And all the games we once played From the Realms Of The Great In-Between Sent to love you To remind you You're so special An astral envoy Sent like a Spiritual Kestrel To inspire others Especially those That suffer in silence So turn that Southern Country music up high To drown out your world's violence For a light like yours Must shine Smile and remember me And it's why This old ghost Can never say goodby For our old love Lives beyond The seas of this black abyss Forever Spinning In my memories Of our First poetic unexpected kiss (C) Copyright John Duffy