The Watchers
Enoch’s
Forbidden truths
Revelations
Of the world’s creation
Before the flood
Violent giants
And seductive fallen angels
Cosmic dust storms
In the eye of a fading story
The blood of Adam
Walking with God
Taken alive to the sky
Spared of death like Elija
The truth of it
Hidden in a cliff opening
The Scrolls
Of a forgotten beckoning
A special tree
And the universe
Of Nephilim
And the destruction
Of divinity
The impact of heavenly bodies
On human skulls
The birth of violence
Outside the law
Archangels and Messiahs
Collapsed
Into polluted minds
And the forbidden knowledge
Of weapons and war
And the courses of the moon
And the signs of the earth
In the clouds
Yeqon’s temptation
And the watchers of iniquity
The story of the beginning
Revealed face to face
A foundation for everything
Out of nothing
A throne from the big stone
Hardened by water
And the fires
Of a righteous faith
The rise of intimacy
And the generation of light
In communion
With the old covenants
Forbidden fruit
And the ways of the damned
Prayers broken open
Over years
Of sons and daughters
Taken from an old rib
A walk with prophecy
Back to a peace with nature
Beneath a thin veil
Between the mortal
And the divine
In a sacred space
With the wisdom of the womb
Revealed orderly
And purposefully
Like the consequences
Of our choices
John Drudge is a social worker working in the
field of disability management and holds degrees in social work, rehabilitation
services, and psychology. He is the author of five books of poetry: “March” (2019), “The
Seasons of Us” (2019), New Days (2020), Fragments (2021), and A Long
Walk (2023). His work has appeared widely in numerous
literary journals, magazines, and anthologies internationally. John is also a
Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee and lives in Caledon Ontario, Canada
with his wife and two children.
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