Going Back to Future Beyond
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I woke to the glare of a screen-lit frown,
My hopes drowned in code, and my soul shut down.
Elon, there said, "The time-machine code is cracked,"
"It’s your call now, buddy, go now, be reborn"
I'm going back ...
To rewrite fate, to make it right,
To hitch the train, to a better domain.
To force the past to speak again,
For better times, now and beyond.
I'm going back ... I'm going back ...
He built a car that split light beams,
Into the past, the future and far beyond.
I pushed the app to go back in time.
To chase the cruel ghost of a childhood dream.
There I was, before I was born,
In a classroom with my mum, the teacher!
I put up my hand and said:
"Don't marry that bloke you adore"
"He's a wife-bashing evil bore".
She replied: "Who are you?"
"You've not been in class before!"
"How do you know this?"
"I'm your son", I replied
"I've got to stop you,
Making and bad mistake!"
I'm going back ...
To rewrite fate, to make it right,
To hitch the train, to a better domain.
To force the past to speak again,
For better times, now and beyond.
I'm going back ... I'm going back ...
The next time I awoke the sky was blue,
The sun was shining bright.
I looked in the mirror
and saw a robot there.
Just like me in every way,
There was Elon standing behind me.
He smiled with machine like eyes and said:
"Fear not my child, you're alive,
and cannot die."
"You've fixed the past for the better!"
"You saved the future and beyond"
"You're in auto-drive now!"
I'm going back ...
To rewrite fate, to make it right,
To hitch the train, to a better domain.
To force the past to speak again,
For better times, now and beyond.
I'm going back ... I'm going back ...
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2025
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