Time Warp To 1973
Time Warp to 1973
Beam me back: nineteen, seventy-three.
I sleeping alone, too dark to see.
Something suddenly awakened me.
There, at the foot of my bed, stood three.
Side by side glowing figures stayed still.
Who were those spirits that caused my chill?
Together, silent, against my will
Sightings like this did great fear instill.
Garments of light donned different designs.
One kingly figure wore clothes refined.
Another one armored...ancient times.
The peasant was third; simple clothes shined.
Perplexed by the vision; fearing more.
Too frozen to speak, thoughts rushed galore.
Bolstered up courage; words stayed their track.
“Go! Go away; and never come back!”
This was not the first vision for me.
As a child, I saw more than just three.
Never, like this, did fear capture me.
Unexplained nigh in seventy-three—
© Name withheld for contest
January 6, 2010
Written for Danielle White’s Poetry Soup member contest: Time Warp
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