My Life's Nurse Poem by John Duffy

(A lone voice whispers in the dark)

Her gentle graceful touches are so beautiful and incredibly captivatingly soothing


They seem to play a delightful melody to vanquish all my mortal fears


Like the rarest of heavenly sunsets that emerges with a twinkling smile in the midst of pink and red frontiers


When time itself appears to stop flexing and moving


Swirling like a god-like deity in a newly lit sky


She is the quintessence of glamour in a night-time high society ball


Filled with dancing masked courting fireflies

Who watches her every fluid movement in jaw-dropping awe


When they pause to rest on one of my beautifully wallpapered walls


A rare evening serenading the gathering of a few enamoured spirits


Where honoured souls gather in their best dresses and bespoke suits to readily confess


Her delicate hands move like Mother Moon gently over my trembling horizons


Whispering my secret name and claiming me as her domain


For we are now consummate lovers and no longer just worldly friends


A bright new world is always breathed into light and lost in delicious touches in that spectacular twilight


For under the gaze of my devotion


I can only reflect her love in my hazel-coloured lens


The darkness surrounding us like an old friend

Sings a lasting symphony of happiness and lingers in the celestial as angels watch and smile


No man-made treaties or paper laws can separate us


For now, our passions in the midnight sun


Soon will wildly run


We'll never lose this particular twilight and these baptised rays will never lose their red and pink hue


For when we first met


I'll always remember that I willingly sunk knee-deep into your green and blue


For in that magical transference of spiritual energy


I knew in that metaphysical moment why God had sent me and it's why now

I'll always belong to just you.


Copyright John Duffy