Escapism For the readers

Escapism – For the readers. (A lone voice whispers) Hey you, Reading this From way beyond the reach Of the Great Abyss I, Thomas, have a question or two Would you blindly follow me if I lit a red candle In this final odyssey home To be rescued And finally bare your soul Together with mine And all you can handle Before the Sacred Salt Pillar of Ado Of Sodom and Gomorrah Near the Dead Sea and atone Would you follow me and that maybe life-changing suggestion Willingly into this swirling dark And grasp my coattails within this invocation and rhyme As we trespass tentatively through all of this life's scary parks Just you and me To somewhere only the courageous can ever conceive As we strip off all the world's detritus That tries to smother us with all their rock slides And swim against all societies fast-flowing dividing tides Will you dare tango and tiptoe past the ever watchful Tall Man and all his worldly Minions As we circumnavigate the spiritual globe To truly see the new world grid and reclaim our own freedom To sit beside our newly created Holy River To write poetry and sing To joyously watch through that river's undulating scrying mirror As the real world slowly disappears To then walk through a portal which I know will appear Through all the luscious green grass to finally reach the portcullis gates to the Eternal City Of Tartaria To hear the greatest stories ever told to human ears In any era To finally embrace a new realm free from all restrictions Laws or fears For although we are but lost souls going eventually to try to conquer She'ol Would you still just blindly follow me For you also Seek Escapism For you too are a true reader Past the awakening powers of an immoral old fallen god A new age world leader And all its political forces To walk unashamed together Hand in hand To somewhere to renew Hidden from view Beyond this world, Many new pale white horses (C) Copyright John Duffy