Elixir Of Life Poem by Edmund Calleja

It’s like waking to reality
which you could never entertain,
venturing beyond your dreams
which you struggle to contain.

Opening doors to free your spirit
where false dawns have come and gone,
this was your chequered destiny
and you were just another pawn.

It was a time for rhapsodising
seducing girls you found attractive,
when impassioned you had grown
as you sought to be seductive.

You’ve ignored all perceived wisdom
bar the dictates of your passion,
where fickle love and aberrations
were your only guiding fashion.

Walking slowly hand in hand
an idol deity by your side,
an enticing goddess to adore
that could never be your guide.

In the silence of rhetoric
you have nourished aspirations,
in your excesses of emotion
you have showered adulations.

Letting life decide for you
was like toying with an illusion,
for your destiny and your fate
would then conspire in collusion.

God sometimes destroys the walls
we build around us for protection,
but when we’re lonely and we’re lost
He’ll provide us with direction.

Crumbled walls and new horizons
will now let you see outside you,
they will pave the way for you
to free yourself and start anew.

Understanding all the turmoil
you’ve been trying to forget,
the inner conflicts you have shied
which you so sorely now regret.

And the language of the angels
you will need to comprehend,
as they will tell you where you erred
in all those things that you had planned.

And as your heart reveals to you
what your eyes failed to observe,
it will surely dawn on you
that you have reaped what you deserve.

Now you will listen to your soul
and learn to live with past mistakes,
a glow of happiness on your face
as this is really all it takes.

And if you unravel visions
you’ll get to know your real being,
cause knowing how to deal with change
is not always what you’re seeing.

But with the onset of old age
you find yourself now courting death,
and as for all your ruminations
you’ll soon be taking your last breath.


(June 2011)