John Duffy Poems

The Sonnet of the Lone Guardian Angel

(A lone voice whispers)
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Now my life's great party's over and this Black Hole

I now live within
Ruled over by Father Sin
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Some may call me a charlatan

A new reborn follower of a King
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I first met you in my childhood
And I can still remember

When I used to look out of that bedroom window
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A painful day will come

Soon
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The heavy rain seemed to fall like a river, from a dreadful grey sky.

On that painful of all days.
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Let me entice your five senses and maybe your sixth.


Discover my soul through new worlds of words, and I'm yours evermore.
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A voice from The Great In-Between speaks.


**'Sometimes my child'**
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.
I'm under no legal or spiritual authority

To make any sense to you
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Did you blindly in the old silence of the mind
Subsist with violence

Like a once playful spirit who had been shattered into a million pieces
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