Justin Gildow Poem Collection

By Justin Gildow


Index

Garlic and Laurels Tower of Sorcery
Angela Arises The Dreams of the Wonderfully Enchanted
My Witches Three (Wendy, Gretchen, Carrie) Our Night in Aljiba
Crystal Teardrops Symphony of the Night
Sacred Flames Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades
The Art Tower Serena's Serenade
By the Outer Wall Transylvania on Zero Dollars Per Day
Remembering Danasty Hunting High and Low
Friends of the Family Doppelganger
The Streets of Desolation and Despair Return to the Villa
The Haunted Ship of Fools The Sunken Temple of Sarnath
Carrie Fernandes Where Love is Joined and Sunday's Sound
Darkside is a Shocker Innocent Devils and Familiars
Tower of Science Unsung Heroine
Soleiyu Memories of Rosa in the Rose Garden

 

Garlic and Laurels

Around here the theme changes just like day and night
And we walk along through this old town
Proud of who we are
Names can be written in the stars
Magic and much more can be unearthed and found

We carry garlic and laurels
To help heal and protect
Many mysteries of how powerful garlic is
Many legends say how laurels can help us live forever

The ravens fly away
While the bats stay

Tower of Sorcery

In the Tower Of Sorcery
She waits for me

As I look up, about my head
I see the platforms and the crystals
Colored yellow, aqua, and red
As I look below the pitch blackness waits to engulf me

I know you await me somewhere love
What I wouldn't give to have the wings of a dove
As I make my way
I can see the ghostly images and hear the whispers of you from far away

Through this tower and through the crystals of many colors I can see angels as they appear and disappear
They let flowers fall from their hands and arms
I can feel your presence near

I finally found you love
Walking on the invisible walkway to you
We sit down together with arms around each other
We are in our world, king and queen, you and me
In the Tower Of Sorcery

 

Angela Arises

Angela arises out of the sea
Making her way across the countryside
In her heart she's cold and lonely
She wishes to be loved
She wishes to be adored
She longs to be held and cherished

Her hair hanging in her face
She looks all around
At her surroundings, at this place
She wonders if she can find love
She wonders if she'll survive
She knows she's well and alive
She looks to the sky
And wonders when her time will come
Where she'll fly to the heavens above

 

The Dreams of the Wonderfully Enchanted

You should know I love you
And I'm sure you love me too
And I"m holding you in my arms
And I'm looking at your face
And I'm holding your gaze

A stranglehold of love
A flickering flame
An old candle
And a silver knife to save our necks

We'll be the dancing ghosts
You're the one I love
Yes, you'll always be the one for me
We'll live inside a castle
We'll live forever or we'll distentagrate
Around your wrist is a bracelet of garland
And around my neck is a rosary

You're everything that I'll be
You're everything that I am

The mercury will rain down
So let it come down

Wonderful and beautiful
Yes my love, that's what you are
You're the sun, I'm the rain
You're the day, I'm the night
There's a blanketful of stars outside tonight
We'll be shined on by the moonlight
As we dance in thin air
Into the night time sky
Wonderful romantic bliss

 

My Witches Three (Wendy, Gretchen, Carrie)

My Witches Three
You cast your spells with alarming beauty
With a gentleness and you all smile sweetly
Instead of seeing it rain all around
You all change it into stardust

My Witches Three
You all amaze me
With all that you can do
Doing so many things that I never thought or knew
By casting spells or throwing potions
You try to make this time of year the best it can be

Thank you
Wendy, Gretchen, Carrie
My Witches Three

 

Our Night in Aljiba

We've traveled for so many miles
And I can read your reaction from your face
You stare all around, then your eyes return to me
You gently smile, and take me by the hand
We arrive walking into this town, this new place

As the night is coming soon
And in very little time that it appears
We find a room to stay for the night
This night in Aljiba

We walk through town
Enjoying our night in Aljiba
I can hear a faint ticking of a watch
To the gentle ringing of the Aljiba Bells
And walking along to the many different sounds
So many things to be bought
So many things to be found
Many strange but wonderful surprises abound
In the night time of Aljiba

After this wonderful night
With surprises everywhere tonight
We head back to our room to sleep and bid goodnight
As we enter slumber
Tonight in the town of Aljiba

 

Cyrstal Teardrops

You cry your crystal teardrops
When you've been hurt
Or when your heart has been ripped open or torn apart
You wish your whole world would stop

Sooner or later
Time affects us all
As well as you and me
It's amazing when you're granted love and mercy
And find out that we're finally free
And be able to see things others probably won't ever choose to believe to see

When I look into your eyes
Crystal teardrops fall down
Very gently, not a sound
And I stare and stand mesmerized
But sweetheart, god bless your heart
You found me in a time of need
Perhaps, more than I would have believed

 

Symphony of the Night

Symphony of the night plays on
Night time consumes us
The moon shines a blinding light on us
As we walk down the darkened streets
And as we run through the shaded alleys
Mystery sets in the air
Wherever we're going, I know we'll take our time getting there
I know we might not be in this town forever
And we talk about our future and what might happen and what there is to come

Symphony of the night follows us tonight
The woods are dark at this time of night
Symphony of the night is under our feet
We can feel the heat
Symphony of the night lets us fly to the sky
And lets us ride the rocket
Amazing as we pass the many stars comets
We're so high tonight

 

Sacred Flames

Tonight
We're joined together
We love each other
And so in our choice
We'll be wrapped around the sacred flame

We're joined by our hands
Being whipped and blown by the wind
Building upon a mystery
Being tangled and lost within
Inside and outside our passion and love
Bliss silently falls from above

The sacred flame is inside our circle of arms
But I doubt we'll have to worry
We're safe from harm
Our love we place so much trust in
It makes miracles worth believing

 

Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades

Trevor Belmont and Sypha Belnades walk along the beaten, tattered, worn out path
Along with love and hope as their guides
The make their way from where they are to the other side

They make it from the cemetary
After planting flowers in the dirt
In front of the tombstones
The walk to their secret place to which no one knows
They see the fog and the mist

They cloak themselves in the darkness
Side by side they gaze out at the estuary
The ferryman lies in wait

For Trevor and Sypha walk hand in hand
As they approach the ferryman
They pay their toll
And walk aboard his barge
For a night, to see the lake as large

 

The Art Tower

We walk straight through the door
Right into the Art Tower
Pulsing within its eerie power
Where the ghosts haunt the halls
Where the spiritually departed whisper through the walls

The paintings hang on the walls very high
We walk through the rooms
To see the unique and mysterious
The strange and the supernatural
The beautiful and the wonderful

We journey down the walkway to the Great Hall
Swords, knives, and spears align the walls
Sculptures on the pedestal
Scriptures hung below the paintings with care
And above us, chandeliers are hanging from the ceiling
From chains, back and forth swaying

As we lay by the door
You tell me I'm the one you adore
And I whisper I love you
The candelabras brightly burn
And just like that the flames are blown out gently
Away from you and me
As we enter a peaceful slumber
Us away from the harm
With you in my arms
In the Art Tower

 

Serena's Serenade

What a horrible curse to have at night
Even though our spirits are reflecting in the light
Shadows on the wall
They move with the time
Scarlet Lilacs lay scattered on the floor
They are the sign of you and me

What a horrible night to have a curse
But for better and never for worse
I'm glad to be in love with you tonight
I'm glad to be with you for always
Love is a lot of things to many
To some, it's beauty
To some, it's reverie
To some , they believe it's pretty
But one thing I've always realised
Is that love never dies

 

By the Outer Wall

The moon is soaked in red
On my shoulder you rest your head
Above us bats fly overhead
Along with ravens and crows
Where they're destined to go, we both don't know

So we sit by the outer wall
And the fields have seen the harvest come and gone
We nudge closer together
God would have wanted us to be together
Especially on a night like this
To our love for each other
We both declare
The whole night is ours to share
Wonderful Tonight

 

Transylvania on Zero Dollars Per Day

Love skips along like a stone
Love drifts through the atmosphere
We spit our lives into paper cups
It's amazing how it always seems that times always change
That some things stay normal and some continue to evolve and become strange
If you could, would you spend your days with the flowers
For all time

Wishes and dreams and long faded desires
Are burning in the fire
We're going to watch days fly by
Were going to see the years slide
Come what may
We're on zero dollars per day

 

Remembering Danasty

Danasty's last stand was so very long ago
In which he saved his love
With his wits
With his knife
Gone through hell to fight the enemy
Love never dies
Love never quits
Whether you plant it in the ground
Or that it rains down from the sky
What a way of life

I remember you Danasty
I remember you telling me your adventures
Aboard that mysterious ship
You, sitting in that crows nest
Watching the skies
Watching the creatures of the night fly by
Climbing walls
Climbing the ceilings
Climbing everything
You've done it all in your time

 

Hunting High and Low

I'm traveling on a white stallion to the accursed castle
And I'm grasping a shotgun and I'm bearing a sword as well
Love, I know you're here somewhere
I want to be with you tonight
I want to celebrate with you on this rainy and dreary night

The full moon beats down on me
From all angles the spirits of the departed corner all around
Anywhere and everywhere that I can see
So I do battle with the spirits
Giving them something they'll never forget

Sweetheart, I don't know where you are
But rest assured I'll find you
Whether it takes me the rest of this night
Whether the moon is out or not tonight
Whether or not the divining spirits are out to play
Or taking off to the night sky
Or that the rain soaks me to the bone
Wherever you are
I'll find you
Even if I'm hunting high and low

 

Friends of the Family

Generations and bloodlines come together
They're present in each other
They illuminate within you and me

We'll have a journey ahead of us
But along with the way we'll receive help
From our friends of the family

The world's diseased enough
The waters have become rough
The crops have failed

With our friends of the family
Let's begin our journey

 

Doppelganger

I stare at you
You stare at me
Weapons drawn
We do battle
To see who will win
To see who will survive

You're very cunning and smart
You also have a passionate heart
Yet we're opponents
And only time will tell of who will come out on top

 

The Streets of Desolation and Despair

Everyone's gone now
And we're walking in the steady but irritating rain
And in your eyes
They have the marks of being tear stained

The streets of desolation and despair are at our feet
And the wind blows on this night of nights
Yet the lights from the lamp posts still work

We walk along the streets of desolation and despair
And if anyone were still out here
They wouldn't utter any words
They wouldn't utter a care
Because they don't care in their hearts

 

Return to the Villa

I've returned to the Villa
For the first time in years
The chandelier's still hanging from the ceiling
The candlesticks that were once hacked off have been replaced
All of these things take me back in time
When I remember that youth was mine

I walk through the halls
Past the rose garden
Up the stairs while glancing at some paintings of the Villa's previous residents

I walk into a guest room
Where the furniture has been faded from the sunny afternoon
The chairs have been stacked with care
The mirrors have been replaced
The bed seems untouched yet made after all these years

With night coming
And my energy, wits, and bones weary
I purify the room with holy water
I leave crosses and crucifixes on the night stand
And I hang garlic all around

With me guarded by the forces of good
I lay myself down to sleep
While hoping for a wonderful dream to keep

 

The Haunted Ship of Fools

On the haunted ship of fools
The sea surrounding the ship is gentle for the time being
The haunted ship has creaky rigging

The planks have become moldy and rotten
Lots of memorable and adventurous times are gone
but not forgotten

The haunted ship of fools is home to an undead seaworthy crew
Whose rules and ways are theirs and theirs alone
As they proudly inherit this ship as their own

The haunted ship of fools sails on
Looking for the next high seas robbery
As well as many discoveries of silver and gold

 

The Sunken Temple of Sarnath

The moat is dreary and disgusting as we hop from platform to platform
While trying not to let the fishmen and bats knock us off or down

It's a wonderful night for everything living inside or around the sunken temple of Sarnath
And you and I have to deal with all their pride and happiness tonight
But we brave on
Even if the water slops around our feet

We do battle with the bone dragons
While they move in a wave-like pattern
And as they hurl fireballs at us
But we make sure they reach their untimely end

The water begins to rise with us as we brave through the army of the night
The sunken temple of Sarnath seems intent on drowning us
But we're much smarter than that
And we survive
As we reach the highest point of safety
While putting down for the count and asleep the bats

 

Carrie Fernandes

Carrie senses the castle beckoning to her
She hears the wolf howl in the distance
She claims to hear the children cry

Dressed in a blue skirt, blue leggings, green jerkin, and a large pink bow across her chest
She awaits to fight for the power she'll have to wrest

Belnades residue in her blood
Light orbs growing in her hands
Pain in her heart
She knows her destiny
She clearly understands

 

Where Love is Joined and Sunday's Sound

Many traditions come from you and me
Joining hand in hand
We think about our lives
And how it will be impacted throughout

We'll begin our eternity
Walking into the place where love is joined and Sunday's sound
And I know the both of us will have nothing else to lose

From here after
What we search for will be uncovered
It will all make sense
In a life and love ahead

Ripples in time
Looking back at the past
Faded but still remaining
Family and friends lighting the candles
Saluting the both of us
As we wait for a long life together
Ladybirds and nightingales
Looking on and away
From where love is joined and Sunday's sound

 

Darkside is a Shocker

Darkside floats in the air
Without a worry or care
He guards his domain well
Carrying his scepter
While being followed by a thunderous cloud

Darkside is a shocker for those who are naive and wary
He holds his own
Along with the many enchanted creatures and plants
that have fully grown

Darkside is a shocker
As he fades into the night
Wafting through the wind
Trying to find the light

 

Innocent Devils and Familiars

I'm ready to go and fight the night
I'm ready to avenge your loss
I'm ready preserve your memory
And I have a lot of other memories and emotions bottled up inside of me

If I'm going to face the minions of the night
Them I'm not going alone
Some come out and come with me
Rise my friends, rise
My innocent devils and familiars
For I'm your master

My innocent devils and familiars
We have a long journey filled with many long nights
And the minions of the night would love nothing more to make you disappear
And to make my journey incomplete and to send me to an early grave

So let's go now
My innocent devils and familars
The night cries out to us

 

Tower of Science

Chains wrap around the pulleys
Boxes are shot out from the walls
Conveyor belts dislike us for the most part
Electrical lasers blast statically
Blasting in more than 1 pattern
They're to play mind games with us

As we go through the Tower of Science
Machines are tracking us
Waiting for us to make the wrong move
Across the platforms we jump nimbly and lightly
And all the mysterious creations and experiments
Their faces show agony and pain
We gather our courage
We regain our balance
Even though we're inside
We continue on through the night

Riding up on the platforms
Boxes and other weapons are scattered about
Some hit the wall and explode

Gazing at the exit
You take my hand
And we run towards it
Ah, the memories we'll never forget
As we leave behind the Tower of Science

 

Unsung Heroine

No one really seems to notice you
Or really seems to pay you much attention

I can say to you
That you really keep my attention
I believe you speak many truths

You might be an unsung heroine to some
But you've found a place within me
Time will only tell of what's to come
But for the time being
You appreciate me and my words
And I like being on your side
As well as your good graces

 

Soleiyu

Soleiyu trains outside in the backyard
Knowing full well that his time to fight will one day come

So he'll be given the holy axe and vampire killer whip
For one day he'll have no choice to fight
He'll have no choice but to face the night

So Soleiyu continues with his training
Whether it's hot under the sun
Or cold, damp, and raining
He knows he'll have to continue the family tradition
He'll have no choice
He's the only one

 

Memories of Rosa in the Rose Garden

Coming soon.

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