The original version of Flight of The Monarch has previously been published in All of Me Vol. III, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing.

Listen to Flight of The Monarch by Richard Charles Stevens (M6 Suite)

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open my heart’s window
feel her shutter in my veins

open my heart’s window
feel her shutter in my veins

shutter in my veins

hold me
love me
hold me
love me
hold me
love me
hold me
love me

hold me
love me
hold me
love me
hold me
(hold me)
love me
(love me)
hold me
(hold me)
love me
(love me)

hold me
love me
hold me
love me
hold me
hold me
hold me
hold me
love me

the entire cosmos
has been known
to flash before my eyes
every time you bat your lashes
as and when your pose delights
butterflies in strobe enrapture
wings unfurl
spread open wide
captured in mid-shutter
they recover in the light

hope returning
faith in kind
hold unburdened
safe in mine
pale the trail of ashes
as they buffer into frameless flight
no osmosis known to weave
such braid of nature’s tone
indeed
the entire cosmos
has been known
to flash before my eyes

in no uncertain terms
i yearn the blur of space and time
to learn the song of papillon
the lady of the night

in no uncertain terms
i yearn the blur of space and time
to learn the song of papillon
the lady of the night

to learn the song of papillon
the lady of the night

hold me
love me
hold me

hold me
love me
hold me
love me

hold me
(hold me)
love me
(love me)
hold me
(hold me)
love me
(love me)

no time like the present
to make sense of ventures blind
arriving neither here nor there
for everywhere is thriving
each adventure mystifying
pupils wide confiding of the universe residing deep inside of them
with luminance
inviting them to prize momentous sight
no more steeped a prize in diamonds
in thine keep of ocean deep and wide
in thine keep of ocean deep and wide
in thine keep of ocean deep and wide
in thine keep of ocean deep and wide

no more dignified than she composed to weeping silently
teardrops fall to call all those opposed to freedom violently
each beat of a heart no longer prone
composes ode disowning echelons of woe betide and blight

open my heart’s window
feel her shutter in my veins

hope returning
faith in kind
hold unburdened
safe in mine
through the never
tethers severed
true the blur of space and time

hope returning
faith in kind
hold unburdened
safe in mine
through the never
tethers severed
true the blur of space and time

true the blur of space and time

in no uncertain terms
i yearn the blur of space and time
to learn the song of papillon
the lady of the night

in no uncertain terms
i yearn the blur of space and time
to learn the song of papillon
the lady of the night

hold me
love me
hold me
love me

love me
love me
love me

love me
(love me)
love me
(love me)
love me

it is midnight in the garden of my battle hardened heart
this is where i come to feel
this is where compunction heals
this is where i come undone
this is where blind faith be spun
this is where the thrum reveals
the sense of feeling tendered will
to spill an endless sea of tears
through years of pardoned art
no need to be pensive
fritter inexpensive fears
when i could paint a rainbow from each technicolour tear
roll back many years and watch them scatter in her wake

scatter in her wake
scatter in her wake
scat-scatter in her wake

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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