Will You Follow Me Into The Darkness? Poem by John Duffy

Would you still follow me if I lit a red candle
In this final odyssey

Would you follow me willingly into the swirling dark
In this brief history of time

Would you grasp my coattails as we trespassed tentatively through all of life's scary parks
As we swim against all the fast-flowing tides

Will you tango and tiptoe past the Tall Man and all his worldly Minions

As we circumnavigate the globe

The new world grid and claimed it as our Dominion

For although we are but lost souls going eventually to She'ol

Would you still just blindly follow me past the awakening powers of a modern god

As we walk unashamed together behind the many new pale horses

To be wantonly unleashed within the unfathomable darkness as we surely conquer this life and all its dark forces

Forever tasked with painting new erotic masterpieces with apocalyptic energy like Vincent Van Gogh

And then every night
Hidden behind the many enemies money can ever make

Before we dream

Shall we plead to angels and owners of the book of secrets

To take us beyond the Black Darkness
We always see when our astral eyes open as our mortal eyes close

To use their invisible hands to tear away the dark rim before our ever-watchful twin pyres

To show us what truly lies beyond these
Books of Lies
Everyone sometimes reads from

For us to venture into newer undiscovered lands
To a brave new world

To see the bright lights of two crimson suns and the quartet of multicoloured rainbows illuminating a purple-hued sky

A place where no one no longer dies

A paradise of ever-swirling winds of a whispered profound new Eden
Perpetually emanating from a deep divine so high up Above

A sanctuary lost forever within the forgiving green reeds of a new millennium

A place to be reunited with dear old family or friends who never made it to the end where nobody no longer cries

To sit beside the Holy River to write poetry and sing and to joyously watch through a silver scrying mirror

As the real world slowly disappears

To walk through luscious green grass to the Eternal City
To hear the greatest stories never told to human ears

To finally embrace a new realm free from all fears or pity

This we will beseech the Silent Dark before once again we are lost in each other
for a few hours

As we joyously board Morpheus's dark Ark of broken old dreams

Before stepping silently into newly conjured world unseen

Smiling like twin heroes with a thousand faces
Amid old rainbows of hidden dangers

Where we shall hear blessings from the
Red Priestess

To deliver us into a new realm just hidden in-between
Whispered in echoes in the deepest ravines
Of the hollow earth

May the Powers of Apollo
The God of Music
Arts Knowledge Healing Prophecy and Poetry

Mesmerise and provide catharsis
For you, as this life, you silently follow

May the Goddess Athena fill you with reason wisdom intelligence skill and peace
Wherever you wander upon life's many emotional beaches

May the upcoming Full Buck Moon infused with blessings sent from the Mistress of Helios
Empower you to conquer all challenges

With self-love and strength

A new power to proclaim boldly in the darkest of all nights
I can do this right

May the powers of your Ancestral Kin

Those familiar voices which still sometimes visit to whisper invocations of hope to still guide you as it resonates deep within

So you can reach new plateaus
For happiness to truly begin

By all the
Power of the Purple Flame from The Unseen
Just behind the veil

To all the watchful Elementals
Deities and Old Gods

By the healing powers of Above and Below

May this ancient blessing empower you wherever you go
And to never be to a hostage
So be it

Can you hear that low whisper from the other side as you walk through my mind

Can you feel me
For within your mind I too now walk

Can you hear my soft voice as through these mesmerising words I too now talk

For you are now mine

It was always written in the old books of life in the beginning of time
When God built the Cosmos

Can you feel me creeping through those cautious corridors of your mind as I pause and shamelessly whisper this inter-dimensional rhyme

You may pass this away as a sensuous strange dream
You may convince yourself it's only your fertile imagination

But believe me, it's real and you will see and embrace it in the passing of time

For you are now mine so say it quietly

From the
Black Grimoires stolen like a common thief from the Devil's Keep
A dark mascarade filled with fallen angels

I invocate this spell to force you to love me as you nightly sleep
So dream of me when you rest and prepare for me when we eventually meet

I've now cast your name into the Sphinx's mixing bowl and there's no one to blame

Don't question when your unconsciousness starts counting down the dogeared days and slow nights

Tossing and turning just restless and filled with so much unknown burning anxiety and angst

For you are now mine

Since by reading this
You have just sipped some of my
Holy communion wine

So mote it be

Copyright John Duffy