The Radical River

The voluminous view

An effervescent memory

The many sparkles on the wandering water

Remind me of the latent love I have for you

The chameleon stars we have travelled

Across infinite universes

The vastness of its tremendous tributaries

Like our aqua blue and emerald green capillaries

Which lead to the oracle ocean of our humble hearts

The song written with your middle name

Your endless love of music and your favourite guitar

The optical Oscar we imagined bigger than The Empire State Building

The Phoenix that rose from the ashes of torment

To freedom of the ultimate spirit

That travels beyond beauteous boundaries

It has been a secret I have held for so long

Multiple finite lifetimes

Past lives of sacred souls

That lead to endless spirits unbound by life

When I close my delicate eyes

And I see cardinal red

I realise it is the centre of the solacious sun

That is where I find you in my visceral visions

You show me your paradisical afterlife

The transcendent dimensions over the rainbow

I see the whimsical waterfall

With the gregarious gorillas

And the rare blue butterflies on their shoulders

We’ve danced and played in the water

Run across the many moons of our travels

Light years of cheetah speed

Our twinned spirits

Have travelled through every colour

Mirrored through every being

Every animal, object, including

The killer whales’ eyes

There is nowhere we haven’t been

But everywhere we have yet to go

Shared secrets, acting goals, triumphs and tears of Rain

I feel you when I touch a Leaf

The Statue of Liberty that shines on

The youngest of Summer‘s

The sensitive siblings you have told me all about

Never forgetting John and Heart

The Heart that brought you into this world

In flesh and blood

With that luminous light

Born XXIII.VIII.MCMLXX

You know my fear in writing this

But maybe it was time

Nomadic sense of your distance

Sometimes far, occasionally close

That fire rainbow

That ancient tree

The chariots racing across the indigo sky

Memories that liberate and bind our spirits

Always free, the freedom we choose

To dance, sing, act and look up

To the stars, planets, galaxies, universes

You know where to find me

I find you in the shimmering sparkles of the River I wake up to

‘We’re all worth it man. We’re all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes’ RJP

Written over several weeks, finished and published on Good Friday XV.IV.MMXXII.