The Judas kiss
Moving closer ever nearer to your gilded cage
Midst thoughts of trepidation and of fear
Would you greet me with rebuke and words of scornful rage
In dread that I may harbour thoughts so dear
You say you are cognisant with my tarnished heart of shame
Indeed a kindred spirit be your plea
But would you line your cloud with a sad mist of silver rain
And fly into uncertainty with me
And would you brave derision as through darkened clouds we fly
In the knowing that unto yourself be true
Or would you wrap your cloak of comfort around a secure lie
To fly in sky's forever midnight blue
Do you gage another by the cloak that he may wear
Like mine threadbare and worn with ageless time
Or would you smile and say that you honestly don't care
Knowing love for one like me is not a crime
Would you risk the Judas kiss from all your vaunted peers
As they with barbed asides would you flay
Or would you with some gentle words dry all my salted tears
And say 'I am true to love come what may'
Brendan
Poetry by Brendan Finbarr Tully
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Written on 2005-10-31 at 15:39
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