Mercy Bluff, Van Dieman's Land
A cage without bars; Is the Worst cage of all
Poetry from inside the Cage: September 2023
Part One:
Silently
Wordless Storms:
Crack the bones to shaking.
Its as if, things unseen
Strangulate my very Being!
Monsters circle
Invisible
Chanting Tricksters Lies.
No one els, speaks much sense
Them muttering crowds of Non-sense.
Are no real match, to the predators chant about You!
Sung into the scull
Where whispers eco endlessly..
.
No One seemed to notice us
Suffocating out in open air
Surrounded by the muttering that grew into a party of laughter.
A party in the darkness.
Part Two:
A voice for the silent Heart
Swells up: Out into the Eyes
Pouring forth secrets of the truth of humankind..
Somehow the lines of time
Are buried deep within
Confused we close our eyes
Maybe Im just a zombie.
But the Heart keeps Seeing.
While sadness of the blind
Descends the darkest clouds.
And I disappeared into the forgotten..
The little fire died low.
If I knew what to speak, then maybe I would!
But the emptiness of doom, has long since ate all words.
Trapped inside the head
The fear will take you whole
Trapped amongst the dead
Walking alone
Surrounded by Life
Yet bound to the shadows.
Part Three
Mercy
My invisibility began to wear off… And I saw someone See me.
Smiling eyes waved in my direction, causing much confusion.
I can’t see that well through all my panic spells of protection.
Memories are hard to hold, when you dwell in-between the worlds.
It’s usually just me and LightNing cruising among the mists.
Before that I wondered a great cage: Looking for the edges..
The twilight was Endless.
And I did not get out very often…
Many years looking. The looking turned to crying. Then forgetfulness ATE everything… Twilight swallowed by the darkness.
I was very lucky to find LightNing at a cave entrance, that opened to the light. I was hiding silent but something called me out… And I found some humans.
They saw me alone and looked into my soul: One of them put LightNing in my arms. He was very very little: The Old dog nodded and the sky humans disappeared.
A great thunder rumbled: LightNing found the edge of the cage.
A Wolf pup, round in my arms.
The Underworlds shook: Heaven lit the clouds
His ancestors circled, to fly off as lightning. Past the tribes in the sky.
Leaving us here, to walk the Path of the Warrior to where the Sun does Rise.
We still have not yet reached the Sun. The forest maze that is my neighbour: Is not easy to understand (and the neighbourhood that’s built within, is a predator that hunts the mind)
Making it even harder to truly escape the cage.
A cage without bars is the worst cage of all:
A cage forged by the great forgotten;
Is a cage so bad, its hard to speak of …
I guess that’s why I could not leave here..
My little four legged friend Loves me anyway.
I followed him; the tomb was broken.
The life of the land called us forward. The Trees returned Friendly. Birds sung happy.
Eyes full of death came back Alive.
Somehow little LightNing Returned my smile to me..
I am not dead.
The sun rolled secrets of the Living upon us.
Darkness became dust that sparkled..
.
You can’t live in the Void, if you have a Friend.
I guess that’s when the invisibility began to Leave me, standing there very much materialised.
Covered in War scars from the Underworld.
Some wounds are still bleeding.
From the time I was a child to the time that is apparently now..
Twitching colours returned.
Love gave me Life.
Again.
I asked my wolf friend “Why would you choose such a dark age to exist in?”
He smiled with love “Do you think you will make it out without me?”
Wonder shook my heart to knowing he was right. He is Truth. He walks the Good Path.
We’ve been traveling the Mists while I finish returning to complete existence again..
LightNing doesn’t seem to mind, though I feel Clear Skys may be close now..
