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John M Douglas May 2013
What is...
A question
Language of unknowns
Fear and doubt clash
Time
Fades
A
Way
Answer
Learn, grow, move, act, live
Keep going
John M Douglas May 2013
Inventors of the past
Curators of the future
Writers, speakers, dreamers,
Teachers of great potential.

They have read, written,
Shared the bountiful food of wonder
-Unable to be conceived-
Only partially decoded

Who are we
To take the reigns of such magicians?
To think innovative thoughts,
To uncover precious words
hidden by the legendary dust of rustic times,
To transform, evolve,
bend the titanium frames
constructed by gifted architects,
To be new
Defiant, different
Right or wrong?
John M Douglas May 2013
?
Happy, how to be
Challenging, it will seem
Twisting and turning, roads will keep
Faith and love are the keys
John M Douglas May 2013
Blank
Meaning
Unknown
Disorder
Influence
Effects
Affect
All
Human­
Being?
John M Douglas May 2013
Today is a day
To start moving,

Turn on the engine.

To keep running,

Mechanical smoothness
Or click clanking jolts
Of shuddered operation.

Activity, ACTION!,

S l o w e d production, jam>^\med parts.
                                                
Restart or shut down...
...Neither...

r.....l......r......l........r..........  ­ |_            



Going somewhere?
John M Douglas May 2013
I'm surrounded by darkness,
though I am not
afraid, scared.
What is darkness, but an overwhelming
entity, or Deep pit?

Have you ever fallen into darkness?
Just fell back, you and your chair:
You tipped just a little too far,
and time  s     l      o         w              e                     d
to microseconds
.0000001-?

      r              ail
... A  ms     fl    ing...
(a look of a frightful grimace on your face)
Almost an embarrassed feeling
of a certainty of what is about to come.

Unfortunately, you have predicted wrongly,
for you just keep falling, slipping into unknowns.
It is dark down there,
but you've seen darker.

The shock of the experience creates a false shimmer
of light, only created by your mind.
--Powerful tool, horrible weapon--

The feeling of falling
...A rough relationship with gravity...
What did we deserve to always be pushed down?

                                s
                        ­        e
                              s
                       ­   i
                     r
Your heart                your soul wants to join.



D
     O
        
        W



           N

A fun journey,
a fateful amusement park ride...
...
. . .
.  .  .                    
NO
.   .   .
.     .     .                                                              
Serious.

Where is the bottom?
IS there
      a

bottom?

Will rustic sPeaRs of IroN
anxiously await your company?
... Hundreds of hungry,
slimed slithering creatures...
Maybe a chilled, satisfying pool
of mysterious liquid...
Scalding lava, coals, fire...
Precious stones, minerals, dull and jagged rocks...
Flat concrete, can that be possible?

Have others fallen in this spot,
not a hole, but a space
in time?

Creatures, life, does it thrive
                                                                ­                                                                 ­                               there,
here?

Or just the suspected death?


Blunt wonders of the locations of
                      hell
              and
heaven                , perhaps they've got them switched around?


You think, but are simultaneously amazed
by your concentration...
Mind racing, or rather, f
                                           a
                                         l
                                           l
                                        i
                     ­                        n
                            
                                  ­         g


                                           Your mind is creating
                                            an imaginative world
while that world is           shocking, stimulating, and probing
your mind.

You've arrived!




welcome to the darkness
John M Douglas May 2013
19
I
Am
Too
Lazy,
Crazy,
Scared,
Foreign,
Solitary,
Lethargic,
Despi­cable,
Disgraceful,
Hypocritical,
Lackadaisical,
Disillusioning,
­Incommunicative,
Incomprehensible,
Indistinguishable,
Compartment­alizing,
Moschellandsbergite
















19 years
Years to go: n/a
Change possible? Yes.                                                 Go.                                                                              Do.
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