Need Some Inspiration? Poem by John Duffy

(A lone voice whispers)


Have you ever really loved your life


Even after you called it a thousand names as you fought through all its pain


Have you relived wonderful and sad memories which always linger and still to this day


Remain


All of those gifts are yours for they all reside deep down inside


Just buried alive



For you are an incredible illumination


Just born to feel irrefutably everything around and within


Even when you're humbled and feeling defeated


You may sometimes in quiet moments 


Feel sacred for you bathe unknowingly in the perpetual purple glow


Of a glorious unseen sun


For no matter how far you wander and no matter how far you run


Your inner sun holds treasures for the soul


The more you give the more you feel whole


Although you may change physically every seven years or so 


You're indomitable


For you unconsciously study the splendours of life


You celebrate the joys and endure all the pain


For your own inner belief and uncompromising deep  faith is truly formidable


You may be tethered and stranded to swirling rhythms and outrageous patterns brought about by Chaos


But you'll always rise to materialize to create a new sanctuary


A new glorious cosmos


Embraced and blessed with a divine symmetry


And within this new cosmos between powers of inspiration and sensation


Those slow steps into a new wild life is simply your own occult seance


Some may desire the paths you've once walked


Some may behind your back talk


But may the many side-roads streets and byroads


Be filled with happiness and love


Newer experiences and faces and may they still thrill you


Offering compassion and benevolence whenever you need


Learn to control your weaknesses and vulnerabilities found in your own Achilles' heels


Within your many worlds


For its fears are irrelevant


Celebrate in the curative power of intense pleasure


Satisfy your thirst and hunger within its revered well


Initiate that free intense deep dive to impenetrable depths


To find your own blazing strengths


Guide yourself gently from your crux to create new worlds


As your guardian angels watch filled with happiness as you unfurl


Let love and laughter elevate you


For you hail from an endless paradise


To create your own secretive realms and sacred sanctuaries


Pay tribute to your own true spirit


For its inner beauty is beyond beauty or compare


Write books

Indulge recklessly under the umbrella of life's great oak tree


Create great musings through the gift of expression found in cathartic poetry


But above all keep singing and smiling


For you're an original
Simply surviving


It's why I'd  like you to read this for you're simply mesmerising 


Copyright John Duffy