I Knew A Jim Morrison Once

Credits:

The lyrics incorporated in the final two stanzas are from the song 'The End', by The Doors (consisting of: Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore).

Foreword:

James Douglas Morrison, AKA Jim Morrison, was an American singer, songwriter, and poet. He is primarily known for being the legendary frontman of the psychedelic rock band The Doors.  Jim was born on December 8, 1943, and died on July 3, 1971, at the age of 27.

I Knew A Jim Morrison Once

 

When slithering time shed

its skin once more, and

I was forced back into mundanity,

I came upon relief in your form.

Tell me why, though it is your

words that all fawn over, I

could only pay heed to your

eyes? The keyless doors of perception

through which you peered and spat

out digressions that placed themselves

in orderly poems – effortless and

ensnaring. Like him, you could see

through the pretenses of the strange

people; you could make sense

of the strange days for those

who could not; and yet, you’d sit

and wait for this tempest

to come cast you asunder.

And when, in the early hours

of a dawn, you finally gave in –

why did I yet wait for you

to return and sing:

 

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end