These are the words I have written down
for every eye to read, what it is I bleed.
I remember one of the priests -
raised his hands to me-
telling me to get down on my knees
asking to have mercy on my soul.
It wasn't long before I got a message
telling me to walk in the reign -
of painful times- where darkness
will play upon the minds.
It wasn't long until I have seen a spectral
coming out from the gray fog.
It wasn't long I started hearing cries
coming from another time-
then I would see somewhere praising
what has been hidden in the dark from me?
Soon, I started hearing screams from slaves
that are being taken captive.
I hear a voice saying to me,
You must go wherever I send you -
and say whatever I tell you.
It was as if I was like in a theater
where passion and fears all came in a scene,
and the gray fog soon joins the sky to the earth.
Yet, when I looked around me
I have seen many iconographies,
watch with the eyes accommodates
another time frame, the images, and languages
sound beautiful and looked different to me,
but what I see and hear is deepening power.
Soon, I held my head down,
hearing the winds blowing in strong-
a voice speaks to me saying, "Don't fear
and render your love to me, and don't be afraid
of the hateful people, for I will be with you
and I will protect you."
Yet, it is not a fiction, it holds truth,
indeed in a sad and monstrous way -
I am assigned to you and together we can win
this battle of what you see in your nightmare
you call darken dreams.
-Judy Emery © 1992
The Queen Of Darken Dreams Poetic Lilly Emery
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MY POETIC DIARY
PoetryThis book is for the ones who had a big imagination, where you can imagine what it is you read, the good and the bad, well the poem that I have put in this book has a lot of mixed poems of long ago and the now.
