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Megan Sherman May 2023
Though we don’t see each other as much as we should
I possess feelings for thee not logically understood
Sparks fly, stars zoom around and encircle my Heart
Overpowers like magic dart
I am by thy visage enchanted
The flower of devotion planted
I pray we cross paths more regularly
Our bond as deep and wide as sea
Megan Sherman Aug 2017
Nature is an empress
The sun her glowing crown
The trees her wizened fingers
Entwined with the ground
Royal as a leopard
Leaping through the sky
The subjects of her sorcery
Enchanted all the day
Megan Sherman Nov 2016
Nature is a prism
Refracting all of life
Each strand upon her rainbow
Is all of the same light
The Sea – The Moon - The Earth
The tender Nightingale
From one law divine
Next to which illusion pales
For Nature is a magnifier
Of beauteous intensity
Life is manifest
And amplified in her majesty
Megan Sherman Dec 2016
Nature is a Spectacle
Roving gently by
Her multitudes are marvellous
Unfathomable to naked Eye

Only Intiution
Can capture Nature's treasure
Her Wisdom comes to fruition
In a Bounty of no measure
Megan Sherman May 2017
Walking on the wild side,
We glimpse, feel anarchy,
Taste it in Nature's music,
Which knells our merrily,

Thunder sounds like a passion,
A riot in my brain,
Only stopped by lightning,
That heavenly refrain.
Megan Sherman May 2018
All Souls in unison rejoice
As season's clockwork brings the sun
To fill with light the heathen place
See her fires as they run
Beyond that totem of God's light
What lies beyond? What mysteries?
One might guess their sheer delight
Doth transcend time and history

All Hearts together beat in time
To Love's resplendent, tuneful score
As purest kin they find their rhyme
And sing together ever more
For that bold disc of cosmic fire
Borne aloft by palm of God
Who for the joy of earth perspire
Make Nature's crown which all Souls applaud
Megan Sherman Aug 2017
Nemesis is waning - quick -
Vindication - mine - at last!
He felt passion only for hatred -
Nailed brimstone black to mast -

Let his end fruition fast -
For vain bombast and ballast -
Then I can put pain to past -
Transcend cursed caste -
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
Fill your Heart with prayers, Love and Light,
And in their awesome Truth take nascent flight,
Upon your fledgling Angel wings,
And soar in skies where all Love sings.
Megan Sherman Jun 2018
I lie in turmoil as the beast
Drops on my head, all hope deceased
He knows the fears on which to feast

Eye to eye, I yet alone
With regent of infernal throne
With stare that sets my heart to stone

How did my hope sink so low, deep?
That it was gouged from my breast, he keep
On laughing as I tremble, weep

God be gone, my peace is dead
For beast descend upon my head
To fill me with immortal dread
Megan Sherman Apr 2016
In love and nature, good things come in nines:
Nine planets in the solar system, cosmically aligned;
Nine lives in a cat, closely intertwined;
Nine ladies dancing, twirling in a line;
Nine choirs of angels, harking divine,
And nine fruits of the holy spirit, telling us to be kind
Nine, Nine is prime
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
She poured her pain in to a cup,
Threw back her neck and drunk it up,
But no good was done, to drown her sorrows,
It bereft her of her Life's tomorrows
Megan Sherman Oct 2017
A lifetime passes blessed by joy
Unencumbered by the blight
Of darkling days bereft of light
Love! The gift bequeathed by troy
Conquered all like Shakespeare said
In words that glisten, wink like stars
Beget from tender, sonorous bars
Suffice to stir and raise the dead
No quibbles, quarrels with love supreme
My rainbow shine beget from dream
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
Not an eternal winter, nor an immortal war,
Could sully the beauty of thy aura, shine,
That thou understand this Truth I in earnest implore;
Such an endearing passion as is thine.
Then being blessed with the kindest voice;
Yours, the meekest that my jaded ears had heard,
Maketh the depressed and downcast spirit rejoice,
For each and every blessed word.
Thou deserve my praise, alms and admiration,
The blessings you beget I could not count,
That lift my spirit out of trepidation,
And give me the strength to my trials, surmount.
    I hath not seen an angel truer,
    Engaged in love and light's endeavour.
Megan Sherman May 2017
There is nothing left to declare,
I showed my soul, I bore what's there,
I hurled my heart, devoted it,
Cross chambers truth of my Love writ,
I couldn't outsmart Love with wits,
Indulged its flights of fancy, flits,
The truth of Love yet still be mine,
I doubt the day it will be thine,
Lest you to Heart commit.

There is nothing left for me,
To say to you, I am not free,
For long as you've entrapped my mind,
Love is activity refined,
But to that truth you must be blind,
It'll take you an age to find,
The truth of Love yet still be mine,
I'll be the one drunk on her lavish wine,
To righteousness aligned.
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
Not magick, nor the fires of Heaven
Can outshine the beauty of thy charm
Burnished bright in colours heathen
That stoke the shuddering spirit warm
When stars have died and run out of colour
And marble and monuments decay
Your truth will be embossed, for time fuller
Written lucid on the sky, clear as day
Next to you illusion pales
And is made diminished, menial
The urge for superfluous passion stales
Deepest desires become congenial
   O Beauty, with burning eyes arise
   From enchanting peripheries
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
When my heart thumps in time
To the rhythm of your rhyme
My spirit sparks and starts to smile
Wanting to wallow for a while

You brought life unto the dead
Namely the passion in my head
Imbuing flame of luscious red
Now I love to live instead

Passion is a volcano lying dormant
Her eruption has been truant
But saunters in Love, incongruent
Of it I am most persuant
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
Now thou hast give me the knowledge of my path
Stoke my fledgling soul to embark
On whimsy's quest, in aftermath
Of Soul's debauchery, its grubby mark
Sullies the cave of my spirit's treasures
Whose resplendent joys therein I seek
A burgeoning bounty of no measure
A kingdom and paradise for spirits meek
Tell me the direction of my Heart's bliss
Keep thy flame close next to mine
So my vision be touched by its lights kiss
That help me walk, traverse fate's line
     O cosmic joke, you have revealed
     A fate to me which do appeal
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
O Avon, swell meandering home
You caress my feet with silken kisses
Round your banks I wistful roam
Enamoured of thy babbling blisses
Awed by beauty of the gloam
It envelops me in tender thrills
Inspired to transcribe it in to tome
In words suffice to inspire chills
Sweetest treasures consist in stream
O loot of the aquatic
That floats like dream upon a beam
The river an element of nature's batik
Imbued with blisses deep, supreme
I wade akimbo to the flow
The awe of Earth from you I glean
You have me rapt in throe
You are the path my heart pursues
It's righteous, truest course
Quelling fear and pain and blues
From thy splendid source
Whenever my sullied spirit rues
My strategy is this
I turn to you to soothe, amuse
To get my fill of bliss
Beyond horizon, thou spread to sea
In unchartered motion
A sea that sparkles iridescently
In strange colours of the ocean
I bask in your waters respendently
Loving their commotion
And honour them devotionally
O Avon, you leave me insatiated.
Megan Sherman Feb 2018
In words that scatter stars in hearts,
Cast hearts cross tapestry of eternity, their beats in rhyme
Thine destiny to be immortalised,
In words that vanquish hell and transcend time
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
O Daisy, happy with life,
Who scatter the grasses like stars,
Doing sacred work of the Earth,
In which knowledge of purpose appears.

From whence the hippies steal away with desire,
And babes and brigadiers lie still for eternity,
Wherein the fine beauty of creation conspire,
There my daisy dream and grow!
Megan Sherman Aug 2021
The world is full of friends yet to meet
The world with divine love replete
O Ganesh, I am at your feet
Your incarnation in the poetry of the beat

Statuesque and filled with light
As I saw you on my flight
A mesmerising and illustrious sight
That bids goodbye to hate and spite

Irresistible to adore
Ganesh, the champion of ancient lore
A countervailing force to war
Hear him riot, hear him roar
Megan Sherman Mar 2021
Ode to Jesus:

So that your wisdom may find power
I pray that men will listen with open mind
Match your solidarity with humankind
That manifests in your love, hour by hour

May the insight borne of your perception find life
In the study of righteous devotees
Who heaven and God and angels please
When to philosophy they become wife

Your teachings are an infinite treasure
Whose virtues have no mortal measure
Such things are made to be adored

In your own age you were maligned
But the righteousness of time is aligned
To your supreme wisdom, for which love implores.
Megan Sherman Nov 2016
Sauntering to inner music
Guided by a soulful beat
A path of fire and passion
Spins out from ‘neath my feet
With arms akimbo to the sun
I fathom God and soar divine
Eternal life has just begun
O sweet, this path of mine
Megan Sherman Jul 2018
Lady be quick! The day is short, have stealth,
As you bring Revolution, in its youth,
Dear Heart, beautiful Soul please raise sweet voice,
So all on Earth can in Love's truth rejoice,
Thy Spirit be fearsome, fiery and fragrant, fierce,
To the core of my own it pierce,
As you the battle of life do hath,
Creeps upon you with blades, half hid under devil's sheath,
But humanity will be victorious,
One sublime destiny be glorious,
As come liberated day for comrades, friends,
A triumph plan of Heaven dare not forfend.
Megan Sherman Sep 2020
An angel called my name
He spoke with kindest tongue
He took me up upon his wings
And flying, we were one

And then, we soar to heaven
From Earth, a lesser realm
And the splendour of it was so rich
My soul was overwhelmed

We glanced upon archangels
They danced upon the sky
We were chasing light that follows
Where those bonny angels fly
 
Like one in love, enamoured,
We spoke with Shiva, pure
And he beget his wisdom
Irresistible to adore

Eternity was ours
The moment filled with bliss
And I thought unto myself
Is there a joy as this?
Megan Sherman Oct 2022
With aura of gold, as such inspires psalms
A beatitude which fretful, encumbered mind calms
I sing to thee, sweet moon, a luscious pearl
Which into night time throne ascend and twirl
Consists in this enigma rare, divine beauty
To which the sages pledge entreaty
All hearts swoon with music upon her sight
Harbinger of eternal delight
Sublime as a god paint with pallet of dream
She is all powerful and all supreme

O cherished disc of cosmic bliss
A rival matched to sunshines kiss
Inspires feelings suffice to be sung to lyres
A fixity in time and space that will never die, expire
Could ever I do justice to thy majestic spirit?
In words, nay, don't think I'll ever near it
Pearl in Heaven's clam adorned by sparks
In embrace of which we to the veiled realms embark
Thee borne of God's labour, testament to his passion
Which he begets in floods, not by ration

Gift me with your precious Peace
May thy blessings expand, thy love increase
Borne aloft on divinest wings
That inspires soul to soar and sing
Consist in you spirit blithe, like Shelley's coy sparrow?
Your healing light penetrates like arrow
Into heart and mind, begin to heal
For energy healing is self-evidently real
To intuition, not gray reason thine appeal
Wisdom not from facts but the truths we feel


Moon a sublime friend, wields and wends
A bounty of pure energy sages guard, forfend
Beyond mere icon, an authentic power
Graces with presence in the witching hour
Assist as we fathom depths of soul
To unite the heart with one and all
Upon thy beauty spirit roves
Frolics in thy treasure troves
I crawl under canopies in thy golden grove
A liberation as such the satanic architect loathe

For moon outranks the schemes of men
Who divide the world to the power of ten
Splendour of the cosmos reduced to sordid schemes
That dare to bastardise our dreams
A soulless empire which subjugates earth
In which evil breeds after it was birthed
A pearl defiled by rubber treads
Of men who rule with imperial heads
But her blood not blue, in fact it red
Peace the agenda to which she wed

In vain the tyrants suppress moon's song
For all their efforts her voice far surpass evil throng
The hearts of the witches are drunk on her music
Learning from her passion's rubric
A guru would revere her melody
To heal our sore and tender maladies
Applying salve to sullied spirit
Medicine more powerful than logic, wit
Healing that cross our hearts writ


Keep thy light alive my friend
Make the world whole once again
Next to thy shine illusion pales
An aura alighting Heaven's vales
A beacon of hope amidst deep treachery
That restores the faith inside of me
I may dwell among the ground and trees
Accustomed to the earthly breeze
But my spirit is still commit to moon
In which divinest beauty hewn
Megan Sherman Oct 2017
At font of time with chalice pure
A boy irresistible to adore
Distills wisdom for his lyre
Could be sung to Buddha's pyre
For lust for peace never expire
So deep in us the cosmic fire
I sing to the stars to them smile
Dreaming of heaven just for a while
He hurled his heart devoted it
Showed his soul and bore what's there
Truth of Love cross visceral chambers writ
He has nothing left to declare
Megan Sherman Aug 2021
With a voice that could inspire the masses of the globe
To seize power and enact a socialist mode
Young Trotsky sings to Heaven of Love of the mass
Bread and Peace for child and lass
A song to make all heart's swoon, take flight,
Banishing demons of the night,
Thou art the sublime friend, risen from eternity's fires,
Inspires feelings suffice to be sung to lyres,
Thine destiny to be immortalised in words sublime,
That vanquish hell and transcend time

Roaming, roving like a rainbow
In exile, Trotsky got to go
Into the world that bore him hate
His lust for Marxism insatiate
O cherished friend, beget thy sweetest sound,
That doth ring along the Earth, up and around,
Gift me with your precious thoughts,
Your perfect care, which Tsar's rule aborts
You are the revolution personified
Your ideas survived you when you died
Megan Sherman Aug 2017
Of - myths - standing uncontested -
I have - rebutted - an ugly one -
From which sage souls - steal away -
Counting liaison done -
When all that counts and all that matters -
To a friend be callous curse -
You sigh - for they willed friends heart - to die -
Aloft on passions hearse -
When mysteries dumb show their royal blood -
Their murderous mists - are cast away -
Behold - path to justice -
Dwell deep in diamond day -
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
O, from what Heaven hast thou departed,
Imbued with the aura of eternity,
A dalliance of dreams thou has started,
With conviviality and fraternity,
We waltz and dance across the stars;
I communicate their joys in verse,
Begetting tender and sonorous bars,
That sing of the flowering Universe.
Now thou hast taken my hand in thine,
I know not the sadness of earlier times,
We fathom Love and soar divine,
Erasing bruises of Love's earlier lacerations, crimes.
    Towards brighter day we, ebullient, go
    Dreaming, rocking to and fro.
Megan Sherman Feb 2021
Of Time I ask one favour

That I will live to see

The liberation of the human race

From gray tyranny

Society's a prison

Where souls are warped, defaced

Anathema to Heaven

In which the spirit's freedom based

The crimes of Power 'gainst the mass

Astronomical, beyond compare

But we destined to walk on freer grass

As we drink up freedom's air

Ecstacies of Liberty

Inheritance of the World

Could this fate come to be

Before my years are culled
Megan Sherman Feb 2018
Oh I imagine magic
Now that spring is there
And flowers wake, buds rumble
Adorn the children's hair
That brightest bloom and tender leaf
Round clockwork change the scene
While bluebird sings on wizened bough
Blissful and serene
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
O how do I master my own mind
Capricious, fickle creature
How do I turn it pure and kind
Enhance its truest nature
O how do I master my romping heart
Attached to all that touches it
It wants to be cast in Love's drama and play a part
When a Heart waltzes past I want to ****** it
But to be captive to my passions
Is not healthy or clever
To be guided by exquisite compassion
Should be at the heart of my endeavour
    O how do I master my own mind
    Where do the wisdom of self I find
Megan Sherman Nov 2016
Oh yield to me like water love
I would not know a deeper pleasure
Ebb like a stream through my mind my love
And sit self-poised in my dreams at leisure

Would angels reveal their gleaming souls
They’d be burnished bright and gold like yours
Our love’s the furnace of infinity
From its rift the grace and gifts outpour
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
O Muse, thou art a maker of tireless melody,
Who with thine scintillating passion maketh my own less illustrious,
Thou art the source of - yet anodyne to - my tender malady,
For thine assiduous affections I have clamoured industrious.
Should your song run dry and run out of harmony,
And the coda finally end,
You truth will be nevertheless understood for thy cosmic symphony,
A truth that Heaven dare not forfend.
O let my lust be reciprocal,
Or my own Heart's strength will decay,
Upon thee I have been attentive, focal,
For hope that thine Heart could assuage my dismay.
    Yet away with me, I hear you say,
    Administering poison in the fifth act of the play.
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
The hour is long and the darkness soul deep,
Utterly isolate in an ocean of souls,
Our tryst has become, by you, anulled,
Without you, bereft of my Heart's gold,
No more indulgence of my bliss,
No more imagining your luck's kiss,
But imagining still your lilting songs,
Which stir the air amidst tattling throngs,
Cleft in twain now, I bid thee farewell,
And pray you soar, not fathom hell.
Megan Sherman Nov 2016
Harping on an ancient lyre
The angel, yielding divine fire
Shrouds a slumbering Earth in song
Her rhapsody rings around, along
Notes billowing like claps of thunder
It really is a thing of wonder
To be pacified by those soothing sounds
That calm the Earth from sky to ground
Her majestic music kisses my cheek
Causes a fluttering in my spirit meek
In her care I am a child
To music dancing, going wild
Megan Sherman May 2017
On Angels wings the children go,
O'er horizons, touching rainbows,
Soaring, sauntering, in the sky,
Going e'er gracefully by,
Light raining down like snow.

They are the babes, in days gone by,
They saw the sunset in the sky,
Lived, felt love, and now they lie,
Where daises dwell and grow.

But in Heaven they jump and run,
O'er it's valleys, under its sun,
God's truth be theirs, they wave it proud,
Sung in song that's long and loud,
A truth for everyone.
Megan Sherman Sep 2017
My eyes on fire, focused on the flame
I see through the illusions of sold time
Meditating soft on lights commute
I hear the awesome beckon of the flute
Soar in happy fashion to the stars
As out of nowhere elephant sweet pours
Undoes my chains, connects and dazzles me
Only she stunning by degrees
Megan Sherman Sep 2020
Once I flew on angels' wings
And fathomed Heaven's sky
The stars sung out and beckoned me
To soar with them on high
I leapt at the horizon
Beat wings against the moon
Touched bonny rainbow on and on
Through which fierce fires bloom
Bells of God rung out my name
Inviting me to be
A guest upon those mystic climes
In divine revelry
Megan Sherman Feb 2019
Indifferent of the grandeur
Indifferent of smog skies
A pilgrim treads to sanctuary
But among her, be there spies:
Fearing cruelty, bold she cries!

Loud as the loud buses
A mass attends the scene
Amongst, one of the roses
Lush and evergreen
Was the moment of blisses
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
One morn a muse meandered in to mind
Carolling soft in sacred tongue
The spirited song of kindred hearts
Clan to which my own belongs
She stroked my mind with fearsome flame
When all the world had dropped dead
Stoking bright and cosmic spark
At the center of my head
The ebb and flow of epiphanies
Through percipient perception course
Strange, explosive truths yielded
From deep, divinest source
    Her mind is wider than the skies
    Which ring with her luscious lullabies
Megan Sherman Apr 2017
Amidst an aura, divinest vision
Rendered with sublime precision,
Invites me to peer, enchanting sight,
Consists in his immortal glow an eternal delight,
Heart fluttering in time with mine,
Communicating in universal rhyme,
A magnificent array of colour,
Ripples through his enveloping aura,
Imbued with light that permeates all time.

The sublime hippie makes the heart gestate,
Makes my spirit feel elate,
I want my heart to waltz with his,
In to kingdom of Passion's bliss,
Upon the shores we'd frolic, play,
Soothing, quelling fear, dismay,
With him I am engorged on bliss,
Touched by the light of luck's kiss,
All throughout the day.

O Angel, Angel, they doubt thy truth,
A kind of beauty rare, forsooth,
But rainbows shine in spite of faith,
Suns blaze in spite of eyes embrace,
The world is good (and good is true),
And more good for the life of you,
You are a beacon of hope and joy,
Could inspire the rise and fall of troy,
With heaven's light imbued.
Megan Sherman Oct 2020
From God he came, in fleshly form, and when
We understood so little of the divine
He came to teach us philosophy of Heaven
So all souls may rejoice in its fierce light again

In virtue awakened souls to their reward
For devoting life to pity, peace, compassion
At a time divine virtue was out of fashion
And power for its own sake was adored

I speak of Jesus, in his lifetime spurned
He preached the sublime heresy of Love
Invited us to walk in its golden grove

Praised for generations, borne aloft
By worship of his philosophy
He blesses, cherishes the devotee
Megan Sherman Oct 2017
A tyrant's sham, illusion most uncouth
Betrays the people of Beauty, rare forsooth
People's wisdom doubted of its truth
When they the gift of Heaven duly hath
Forever incurring petty tyrant's wrath
The mannacles descend, and maim the mind
By devils with pretence they're so refined
They lead the lovers, whilst their own hearts blind
Freebirds sense direction of the wind
Sweet soar! The tyrants languish, left behind.

From immemorial time their lies assailed
Lady freedom, from whence the war cry wailed
See the lawmakers bring justice to her knees
Captive on their island on jaded seas
Too callous and remote to take her pleas
To breathe free air, stunning by degrees
But people will her return, to their shores
Her heart so irresistable to adore
Her triumph sweet foretold in ancient lore
Lo! The victory, the end of war.
Megan Sherman Sep 2016
I saw an angel on my stair
I asked "what are you doing there?"
His kindly smile betrayed no words
Still I knew in my heart I was one of his herd

I saw him again, up a tree
Smiling, beaming back to me
His locks of flame, his fiery might
Burning softly through the night

I asked him again: what are you doing there,
Angel who appeared on my stair?
he flashed the smile that I revered
And then he winked and disappeared.
Megan Sherman Aug 2018
The sun was up, and daylight blue
Filled all the air, but in the streets
An obsidian dress fast cloaked la rue
As evil crept on stealthy feet
Which seemed at first to be small threat
And undetect; but threat was rife
With subtle moves the spylings breathe
The stench of death, they lower life

In a malicious, abrupt way
Bewildered me, made themselves known
Enemies to Freedom they
Serve only to protect the crown
We tangled, thrashed, my soul abashed
As in obsidian pall it drowned

And so throughout the bleak days, years
They barricade the street and skies
Their poxy prisons bring me years
As they cull freebird as he flies
He nimble tells their secrets for dear
Price, a price upon his years

Whereon the chase upon my back
The devils apace to do their Ill
Behind, beside me hearts pure black
Know only evil Love no thrill
For ****** rank they have the knack
Of making life turn still

The car swerved in with metal groan
I run past them ever fast
They the inquisition to my Joan
Freedoms flag upon my
mast
Such fearfulness I have not known
Than that they inspire, all hope lost

What will become of our good man?
Their petulance stalks him, his friends
If all this time with strength he can
Put doomed world on the mend
He hath outwit them, beat the man
Even if to grave they him send

It is about a year ago
The hunt, chase for me was afoot
As we pacing to and fro
In that town of soot
A town of beauty till I behold
The black coats and jackboots
Megan Sherman Feb 2017
My vision has been administered life-saving medicine
It's received the healing balm of soul's knowledge and truth
My sullied spirit doth regret and repine
For being shown round souls shire's on a bad man's hoof
The sacredness of the feminine divine
Has been hurt by the attrition of malevolent schemes
That suffocate soul's fire
And dampen it's purest dreams
A brilliant stroke of insight
Came to me in ebb and flow
Of an epiphany, through percipient perception
It, shouting at me, gorgeous, goes
    O tonic, an experience you get once in an age
    Thank you for showing me what is sage
Megan Sherman Oct 2017
Ought my mind to stop in pain
Stupefied by barbs of lover of past time
I pray thee sing lullaby refrain
Ferry Heart to sultry, starry climes
Dreaming? Rock me to and fro
Saunter, simmer, Beauty mime
With you I'm forever seizing rainbow
When life denude of reason, being rhyme
Would my mood plummet, gray stone-cast
Bereft of cosmic flow of Love
Would you hoist passion to the mast
Walk softly to that golden grove
Antagonist of pure passion cast
In truest romance of the soul
Which isolate us in inviolate bond
Yet connect with eternity, one and all

Should my senses shatter, die
Encumbered by manacles that creep by stealth
Accompany the Lion's cry
Of deeds misdone when in bad health
It's rank hypocrisy to implore me see
And understand when there is dearth
Of ones own insight in to menagerie
Of me! I have insight enough, nay, in wealth!
Blooms, gestates, in girdling girth
Flowers of dignity be mine to hold
In streams of dreams and forest of gold
Bad rendered one D me versus my passion manifold
Lennon's mirror to Kali beat King Leopold.
Megan Sherman Jul 2018
I love the hunted not the hunt.
Pursued, they want to hold your warm heart,
My trophy, gold-gleaming and thunders with love,
Proceeding from your great soul's core.
More beautiful than a rainbow.

Maybe you consider yourself a messenger,
Megaphone for the wisdom oppressed.
Fifty years now you have, wide-eyed,
Rendered the world with beauty,
And Proustian sensual bliss.

Pacing little alleys with just my passport and mauve dress
I crawl towards the dead-end, its van
And its suited men; they point and laugh.
To save myself I turn back, run;
A car swerves in, fast as a gun.

An obsidian dread engulfs my heart,
Running faster, ever fast
Underneath the emerald green parasols of Harrods.
I am the hunted now, they want my heart
Too. For being one who is kin to you.

Anarchy on the streets, I scream!
And then as if on the zephyr of a dream
You, abrupt, enter my sight,
Drifting through the pacing crowd
And I turn back, to distract the police.

Counting the beats of my thundering heart
I, coy, catch glances. You glance back.
Seeing you return, your back, head to the ground, the lady officer swivels,
Sees you! Fills my heart with dread.
I do not flinch: the questions resume.
A true story
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