An Angry call went out this morning,
first from One House, then Another
Only Slowly did dullard neighbors Awake to what was happening
as An Ominous Black Wind blew by.
The Plague Wagons still creaked by on the course
of their endless rounds
Stalked by a new mob of ghosts eyeing their corpses' progress earthward
as The Bejeweled princess looked out the window
Pining for the fact of the Love She would never Feel,
Longing for the One.
This Day, Outwards there is beauty, but inside is all rot.
But The Satyr, with a Gleam in his eye,
Held out a bag of magical powder to Me and Spoke these Words Intently,
"None of Us is Who we Seem, Nor Knows Whence We Go nor Why,
But I have been here a Thousand Years!!
Hurry, take my hand, and Let us Flee into the Night!"
I knew not whether to Trust him,
Nor any of these mutilated twisting faces
Picking through the thorny rosebushes and tangled briar-patches
on either side of the River. Tiger-stripes of moonlit canopy shadows distorted them all
and the world around me spun until Man, Beast, & Tree were too only a mess of textures subsumed into the Labyrinth.
The Great Owl and Halloween-eyed Jaguar were aware of all the Angels and Woodland Spirits who looked on that night,
as The Old Grandfather Tree Lumbered forward to the Watering Hole,
Elbowing aside the patrons who all vied to be let forward first,
but When he got to the Bandits, who in Retort brandished and knicked their swords,
Old Grandmother Screamed admonishments from her Window and the Impervious Jester danced his Merry Sad Songs.
The Satyr, in Profile, had a tear streaming down his cheek and made out these last words:
"There is no hope now... it will be forever Night."
Listen well the Tale, young ones, Wise ones, dry yourself round the fire,
as we all humble ourselves before the One,
and fold our hands in prayer.
None is beyond salvation my bretheren,
and yet we will be severely tested in this wandering.
Puzzles within Puzzles,
deceit within deceit,
Riddles Ever-changing and shifting.
Sanded Coridoors and Booby-trapped floors line the walls
of this God-Forsaken Space, But, You will find the One way Out, My Dear.
It may take just a little time,
I know this is surreal.
Stop Struggling, Surrender & give up the fight.
I am Here With You.
Now Grandmother and father are at peace, sipping watery coffee with dentured smiles
and blithely pleased in the slow tempo of their ignorance.
The incessant stream of riddles passes them by all oblivious.
They do not even try anymore, they paid no mind to the Ancient Puzzle Cubes nor the Satyr's Magic Powder.
Truly they are all indifferent to Our Suffering and We are condemed to burn forever.
But Don't worry Baby, I hold you to my chest in All Essence, When you thought no one
felt you scream, I Was With You. I have been With You, I am screaming too. We all scream
forever in this place.
Come, leave it all behind.
Let us go into the Light.
There We are Safe, Together
in Love, and All will Be Well.
Forever.
JD
22
Hello to all, especially all friends.
It's been quite some time. Apologies for being removed for a while, I exist to lighten this world for us all but have been pursued by darkness overmuch in my life. "I am BESET by hindrance and vexation" as Der Meister haben gesagt, und es ist fur mich stimmt auch wie immer.
A constant wish is for you all to be finding interesting and fulfilling roads out there, flung to the seven seas as you've certainly been. Particularly goes out a wave to any past loved ones who drifted off yonder into whatever waves of 'troubled seas' and wayward journeys you're off to as well. Blessings to all, even those who can KEEP going to hell.
I have been drawing yes, here and there, mostly producing stuff for "die jahrenbuchen", journals or chronologue sketchbook type things. I've still been more interested in and devoted to musical work, enabling definitely lots of good to develop thereby.
Oh, cherish the lucky & blessed days you live out, my children!
Those are gold tokens not only in this world, but in the hereafter.
You will live each one a thousand times, from a thousand vantages.
If only you would live them rightly, as would please every one of them.
Impossible for you now though, forestalled as all are by their darkness.
"My sisterhood has studied your bloodline, and your future.
...we have seen you die, MANY times!!
...We have also seen you rise to commahnd VAHST ahhmies, bringing peace ...
...once."
~from DUNE
But yessshhhhhhhh, most people I still believe have that unchangeable core of good despite whatever immense Olympii of trash, jumbled strew-piles of black netted longbegottens rummaging up their menuilial space. Why forsake thee, the whisperings of spirit?
The Voice of God is in everything, not only speaking but YELLING at you
every hour of every day. And yet how many demons will attend as well?
Il attend comment vous insiste a invite. A tout et Tout le responsibilite.
The demon was clutched around her chest, around her heart. Perhaps the size of a basketball, and a similar shade actually. Orange and black, with glowing orange eyes.
Its hands were abnormally large for a body of that size, with long hyperdermic nails which
tapped and stroked with an odd gentle fondness at the ribcage protecting the valuable organ.
It nestled close as if sustained by its beat and warmth, which it at the same time was using
as a source of energy to sustain itself. It was draining her life force in several dimensions
simultaneously, while looking at me like a hungry dog defending a desperately won meal.
There was certainly intelligence in those eyes as they looked menacingly at me, then at
the heart again, and back at me. More intelligence say than in any hungry dog, and yet
not as sentient as most humans. I wondered at the larger demons which often have the
look of MORE intelligence than most humans, and how I loathe them. They would follow
me around more except I bore them, and not so far has even one device of theirs made so
much as a scratch on my aetherial aquamarine bathyscope, nor do any more even attempt it.
Yet hers was persistent, omnipresent, daily more frenzied at the increasingly-erratic beating and
throbbing of her vulnerable kardía. Softly could it be heard grunting and whining in the early
hours of the morning as she tottered about the creaky silent house, preparing a greedy
ration of saltpork and coffee. The vibrant aromas saturated the dwelling within
minutes, all previously sleeping there now bothersomely awake and
aware of her reeking ritual, only to be rebuffed by a shrivelled
mouth spewing bits of the the masticated mix of acid salinated
chloridated meat the creature(s) began the day with when friendly
curiosity impelled them downstairs. The demon cackled when they
walked away, audible except to her as a hyena-like whispery giggle.
More vividly even could it be seen in the evenings, when sweating
and placid would she stumble in from the day's labors, panting.
Its delight seemed to increase when her breath thinned and
shortened, which was more and more often now.
A dream one night, of the faces of all the
animals on all the loading docks of all the
slaughterhouses she had ever consumed,
grimacing past her as they were swept off
to their doom. She knew it, and yet wouldn't
even so much as lift a finger to question what
was happening. In the sky was a blazing orange
sun, the same color as the demon's eyes. And where
its eyes might be imagined, two yellow orbs flashed in even
more unworldly brilliance. In their reflection she saw herself, engorged
at the end of an assembly line as a procession of horse-heads, cow-tongue,
sirloin steaks, ribeyes, tenderloins, round roasts, chicken wings, and pig's feet
streamed in a wash of blood toward her open gaping mouth at the end of the line.
She awoke, in a cold sweat, still hearing the screams of animals and gurgling guts
churning all around her, grasping at her heart with a sudden, forceful wave of pain.
This pain was not fucking around, it seized her complete attention at once, and in
a second she was thrown back into her pillow, wide-eyed, unable to even yell to
the flaccidly snoozing boor who was her current husband in the bed beside her.
The demon, having been thrashing about all this time, yowled out a pan-like
vocifery of delighted laughter now, throwing its head back and forth, and
dancing upon the victim's chest in exultation. The strainful silence of that
15 or 20 seconds exploded into eternities bounding onto eternities, as
she clutched her chest and fought for breath in a whirlwind panic borne
of sheer survival instinct now. Even the pain was secondary now, as each
second ticked on the nearby oafen shelf-clock and cold sweats streamed
down her furrowed hairline. What at first was a trembling quiver now raged
into a full body shaking vibration, up from her spine, sending electroshocks
ricocheting through the cheaply rum-stained mattress, finally arounsing her
lummox husband into wakefulness. He burbled through the mumbles of fae
to find his wife purple and blue by his side, shaking the whole bed as though
from a tale of the old ones of one 'possessed' -- immobile from the waist up
but legs kicking and eyes which snapped to meet his frightened gaze just as
she became able to let out a diver's suffocated inhale for breath. BREATH! It
was everything for some moments -- as she deeply consumed now even the
rude air in the damp apartment around them as hungrily as she once did her
greasy bacon clumps. Rapidly, en espanol, he demanded to know what had
happened, was she okay? But with the first ability to make sound, all she
went for was a prolonged, lungs' top wail that - again woke everyone in
the house but this time in the late hours of night. She screamed away
the residue of extreme pain until, through just sobs, she was able
to regain some semblance of composure some minutes later.
She explained the haunted dream and how she woke up
in such pain unable to even wake anybody. In
that moment, it was just the
two of them.
...
And aren't those the moments that really matter?
Anyway,
at least for now~
Basta!
~J