Thursday, May 25, 2023

Basking in the Gamma Rays

Pages tattered and torn 
Wrinkled with coffee stains 
Is  the basis 
Of an ecstatically 
Luminous adventure
Twisting and turning
With every plot 
Through the corridors
Of our imaginations'

Our  dreamscapes
On the astral plains
We're  all called upon 
To help the helpless 
Some situations cutting 
Piercing through unmentioned
Wormholes 
Are direr than we
Can comprehend 
We see the camouflaged
Mocking and laughing
At the immensely destructive chaos 
Their evil ambition has created 
Ruthless ripples
Of horrendous tsunamis 
Throughout all dimensions 

I finally found him 
Such overflowing relief 
Forty-three years later
Crying, confused, and
Broken, his frail mind
Finally wide open
Accepting the truth
Of whom we actually are
Ready to see what is 
Unconscionable reality
Constructed right
In front of everyone's face
Through that illusionary veil
"Oh, it'll eat your soul 
If you let it. Stand up.
You're ok, you're not 
Losing your mind."
I calmly explained 
With lucid precision

Forty-three years earlier
Wrapped in a great mystery
A small strip of land
Separated two family households
A red Cadillac with fins 
Pulled up to me 
Within the small 
Cluster of the enchanted forest 
Just a child I was
Ready to leave 
Wondering where my brother
Had run off too yet again
A blonde scruffy teenager
Was at the wheel
With piercing oceanic eyes
He said, "We will find him later.
We have to go!"
Trusting him without qualms 
I jumped into the back seat
Of lavish white leather
Trimmed with an amazing
Apple red 
And off we went
Through the stargate 

A simple promise
From three strangers
That somehow I knew
Their souls so very well
Kept their promise to me
In the most unexpected 
Wonderfully blessed way ©

Karen L. Fleming 

Wrote: 5.11.23 Edited: 5.25.23


 






































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