The Ballad of The Lucky Man

  The Ballad of the Lucky Man She visited me at 15 Like an untasted maelstrom of tempestuous emotions She whispered like a midnight seductress So mysterious and so enchanting She stole my youth away She dissolved my loneliness And we were as one She disappeared at 16 She came to me at 18 A revisit I simply adored Like old friends We held hands And we strolled through life happy and carefree Together, I wished for ever more Her and just me She left me at twenty She came to me again at 27 So fulfilling and welcoming We embraced the dark nights together I now no longer needed to fight She stayed We sang our symphonies together, Our plights forgotten She still held my hands No more alone She still whispered my name In mysterious dark dreams This beauty I speak of From realms unseen Some know her as Aphrodite The Goddess of your Dreams I simply knew her as Love My beautiful Queen We still met in ever-changing routines We still stumbled and fell But still, she stayed And loved all that I am Through Heavens elations and Hells unwelcomed relations I met her at birth, this much she whispered She looked deep into my eyes as I entered the world She murmured my name as I begged for air She told me a sacred truth Love sees you no matter your gender Status or skin She always returns to lead you into or out of sin Just open your heart And she will always come in I am now an old man And as I lay on my bed As I look at my life as I near the end Love still is beside me as she looks in my eyes She said Love stays forever and never really dies She stroked my hair and murmured like a seductress well-fed She'll visit me in the skies and once more we'll be wed Our love will last forever and the angels will sing We'll dance forever in heavenly moonlight As we take over Celestial's dance floor She bowed, kissed and whispered into my ear We are eternal So of this life Do not cry if it ends We will embrace so soon Once more again For you are my lover and my eternal friend And as my heart starts to fade and my heart loses its strength Inside I soar For I know we'll be reunited again I met her in Life on the day of my birth She followed my adventures here on this earth In heaven, we will soon sing So as I leave this old life I feel blessed to have been married to Love My spiritual wife As I transfer to the angelic realms I hope to see her still holding my hands Still looking deep into my eyes For we still share life's wedding bands Be lucky like me For true love never dies This is the Ballad of a Lucky Man A man married to Love for all of his life A man proud to have embraced her and called her his wife And as I leave this message for you to read All I wish for you Is a sip Loves seductive mead For loves a beauty Beyond trouble and strife I hope she visits you throughout all of your life Someone to hold through all of life's mysterious dark nights Someone to embrace on Loves many beaches Someone to just love you And always leave you speechless So here I am As angels beckon me to leave Just remember Love will visit You just have to believe (C) Copyright John Duffy