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
Copyright © John DuffyASY | Year Posted 2024
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