Doctor White
(A lone voice whispers)
Are there many quiet times
When you look above
And are there are many crazy raucous times
When you’re also forced to
Look below
Can you still feel tendrils of
Old memories from your
Hidden archives
That cathedral you may now
Call the Ghetto Château
Where lost love or heartbreaks
Resonate
Vibrating in those very rooms
You try to outgrow
Are there still small moments and
Infusions of tranquil bouts of welcomed insurrection
Silent revolutions or tired times of forced rebellions
On the surface
Above
Are you so seemingly filled with Love
And sweet smiles and compassion
A face you parade to the world watching
But below
Where the husky darkness
Multiplies and you breathe it
Deeply in
As it flourishes and grows
Do
Invisible feelings of self-doubts
Deep inner fears and invisible tears
Call when you visit to endlessly fall
Do you wonder
Will they stay
Will they go away
All questions heralding from the smiling
Mister Who Knows
Who lives inside me
Just having a silent conversation
With you
My secret hidden alter
I call him
Doctor White
Dressed in his white coat
And with his foolish stares
I can still see him smiling everywhere.
Especially when I drink
Some wet kelter
Like my soul's satisfying
Mescaline
I may seem calm and collected
Above too
But beneath that very shimmering
Surface
I fear being totally rejected
But for now, I’ll still smile and play
Empowered with the hope
That the good memories
Will stay this time
I will no longer need
To revisit my deep depths and
Those old rooms
I always seem to trespass through
A place my soul
Sometimes visits and all light
Is bereft
As Doctor White
Visits
Walking casually and smiling through
All my precious light and dark
Memories rivers
Maybe tonight I’ll but stay firmly standing in those
Filled with love and lights
Standing steadfastly in the hope
They will stay the night
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Copyright © John DuffyASY | Year Posted 2025
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