Malenfant Voorst, the author’s AlterEgo. He first surfaced in poetry from June 2016. Who is he? Is he an Enigma or an Antihero? Follow the journey of one, Malenfant.
Look Malenfant, Look to the Sky Authored: June 16, 2016 I lost my way somewhere along the way The path that was once alight Grew dark as time wore on The tempest outside rages on And on and on The light was turned off As you exited centre stage And space eclipsed the sphere of this world I heard you yonder Your laugh; your face aglow A storm rages within The rain falls and falls Wading, grasping, unending The path is now dark An endless sea of darkness The tempest rages on The earth weeps And humanity falls I will see you in the next life And beyond that An endless sea of stars Look Malenfant. Look to the Sky. The stars sing. ---------------------------------- A Repose Authored: October 1, 2016 I close my eyes after another day Entering those well-worn dream paths I look into your eyes And suddenly feel lost within memories I can feel my fingers run along your hair Feeling our bodies so close In this dream we are watching fireworks Under a star-filled clear sky I look up where the fireworks merge with the stars I feel myself drawn towards those stars Distant yet beckoning Malenfant, watch the sky, it begins...... The next morning, I awake Alone in my bed, the remnant thoughts Of a dream full of memories The morning sun streams through my window Onto my bed. Looking out of the window I imagine if things had worked out What if? I close my eyes and see your eyes They are full of stars As wide as infinite space Malenfant, watch the stars, they sing..... There will come a time Where dreams will end One day I will forget you.... And I will hear the stars sing... Malenfant......watch....they sing..... ---------------------------------- "Untitled"
Authored: April 26, 2017
I lost my way somewhere along the way
The path that was once alight
Grew dark as time wore on
The tempest outside rages on
And on and on
The light was turned off
As you exited centre stage
And space eclipsed the sphere of this world
I heard you yonder
Your laugh; your face aglow
A storm rages within
The rain falls and falls
Wading, grasping, unending
The path is now dark
An endless sea of darkness
The tempest rages on
The earth weeps
And humanity falls
I will see you in the next life
And beyond that
An endless sea of stars
Look Malenfant. Look to the Sky.
The stars sing.
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Sacred Hill
Authored: May 13, 2017
I want you to know the following.
As the crows dance in the rain
I forgive you
I am done feeling this apathy, pain and anger
Our paths merged for some time and now they are apart
What was what is cannot be changed.
There is too much pain in this world
I do not want to add to it
I hope you know that I loved you truly
I tried my best
I am no longer broken or hindered
This introversion I lay under
Is as such a sacred hill.
As the crows dance in the rain
I ponder the lost chances and the what if’s
The gambits were there, and I lucked out
Who knows if I would have made a good husband
Or a father
I had my own demons to battle.
I forgive you
You are not a monster
I will not make you into one
I loved you once and I knew why.
On this sacred hill I sit with my missed chances
Wrong choices
Lost blossoms
In another reality, maybe I chose wisely
Maybe in that reality I met someone
And we loved each other deeply and real.
There was this one missed chance….
The greatest of all possibilities
If only……
As the crows dance in the rain
On this Sacred Hill
In time.
What was what is cannot be changed.
Hear me, Malenfant…watch the stars….
I walk this bridge on the edge of the cliff and sea
Towards an unknown future
Above me……and around me…….
The flowers blossom
For countless love stories are shared in the cosmos.
The crows fly off into the distance
The rain continues to fall.
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“Meet me underneath the Tree, under the pale Salmon Sky”
Authored: June 2, 2017
You stand there by the lone tree in that grassy field
The soft light of a white sun you can barely feel
Under the pastels of a pale salmon sky.
It is quiet all except for the beats of your heart
The cadavers of your thoughts
And the thin whispers of the wind.
You bade me here, now I await you
Through me and within me memories are alive
Resisting fragmentation along shared paths
I await you here under this alien sky
Nothing is sure any longer.
Where are you? And I wait some more
Even the stars are not seen
Around me except for this lone tree is a repetitiveness.
I look out into the distance, the paleness transforms
Behind me the branches reach out and embrace me
I do not struggle
I close my eyes and submit to it all.
Where are you? I ask
“I am here” you respond
You take me within your form, as one we combine
Just as the sun expands into supernovae.
I remember your face
Your smile transforming
Featureless
Replaced with stars.
Around us, everything fades into black
And a swirl of stars
We move.
Malenfant….we move forward
Constructs of the human mind
Replaced with the Infinite
Each star is a soul turned from a life form
Into engines that will power new strains of life
Symbioses within reincarnation
Molecules changing, reforming, catalysing.
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“Malenfant…”
Authored: August 9, 2017
There is no more longing or regret
For what had been
There is no need to ask why or how
For what had been
Was something that I had to endure
There is no further torment.
Watch with me the setting sun
Paint a hue of colour across clouds
Across the wooded hills of a far-off island
Feel the water lap at our feet
The sound of small waves caressing the sand.
The eye appears and yet I am not surprised
Shimmering cascades in waveforms like ripples
Colour disperses
The phases shift, the manifolds reset.
Malenfant…what is regret but a longing to do better?
Malenfant….what is longing if not regret?
Malenfant, do you know the how by the why?
There is you, in this world of worlds
I watched and I felt the understanding
This was the continued path of healing.
Malenfant….the wind whispers
Malenfant….the eye watches
Malenfant….there is no further torment.
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