Notes From the Future--A Tale In Two Forms, Free Verse and Rhyme
“I am in a desert place in my life
I had this dream the other night:
Comfort came to me in two forms
Dark and Light
Remembrance and Anticipation
There was a sweet taste,
Not on my tongue but in my heart
And a soft touch soothing
But sublime
My mind saw this scene from two angles
Left and Right
I perceived a choice between two women
One I have known before
The other I would know
I was standing
My back to a wall, facing an open room
From my left Dark approached me
She put her face to my face
And her body right up against my body
As we sank to the floor kissing
It was odd—but familiar.
From my right came Light
(Dark had already gone)
Light put her face to my face
And her body against my body
As we sank to the floor kissing
And it was right
Each consuming the other.”
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Dark is a woman I knew—years ago
Light is a woman I had yet to know
Dark needs no light, for her countenance seen
Dark is lit up by my fond memory
To see Light I’d need hope, and it came in a vision
It took a great while, retrospect acquisition:
Committed recall to the blank white of paper
Returned to my eyes again, many years later
Gave chance to bestow, my mind reels at the means
The future made known to the man, it would seem
No notes from the future, squeezed backward through time
Piggybacked upon muons*, the old paradigm
It came by cigar with some gulps o’ the brandy
Wouldn’t suffer invention, no technology handy
Through membrane not diodes, transistors or chips
Premonition the cargo, time-transient ships
Time seeps and flips back--bits of data it brings
Knowledge bestowed in ethereal** dreams
The upshot of this story? Light’s my destiny
And I’m happy to say that her name is Tammy.
*The time traveling muon
**extremely delicate and light in a way that seems too perfect for this world
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