The Calling
Foundation.
Have you ever met someone where everything just clicked but then, for whatever tragic reason?
They just disappeared?
The Calling
(A lone male, clutching an old photograph at midnight. Whispers, as a single white prayer candle burns)
Let me in
I whisper into this rising grey smoke
Let its wispy tendrils carry up my plea's to wherever you are
No matter how far
Hear me
For I'm looking back at our old feverish memories, in these black and white fairground pictures
In this semi-darkness
Between these two great voids
Separating me and you and so many others
Let me in
Through the ethereal panes of shattered astral glass
Filled with tangible strands of much-loved recollections
So I can once again cross the deep oceans of the Hippocampus
Flying for days and nights in and through its episodic sunshine, and rocky shores
So I can warm you with my old love
For I will never stop looking and calling
And lighting these white prayer candles
Hoping you're listening to this
Somewhere
Wherever you are
Listening and hearing my voice reading
My heart's whispered secretive spells, which l will forever yell
In silence throughout the day and in feverish whispers at night
So let me in
Now, it's midnight
To reach that forbidden place which connects all things
The Maelstrom
But which stays hidden, as it holds you in its tight grip of a new seclusion
Especially, when everything
Just goes wrong
I can only pray my words are carried like an angels song, to make your beautiful eyes blink
By this grey smoke gushing skyward from my incense candle, in these rushing four winds
Which will help to guide me
To find a way, to try to find you again
Be it on Earth or in Heaven
So we can continue what we once found in our old lifetime
A beautiful treasure the Nexus Seven, in their rare sacred manuscript, called:
A meeting of similar minds
(C) Copyright John Duffy
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Copyright © John DuffyASY | Year Posted 2025
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