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Parallel Universe

There is a world parallel to ours

With silver threads were bound

The souls of our departed old

In mirror image will be found

 

Their old become implanted

Young in many wombs

While ours are given to them

old in silk cocoons

 

When an old man leaves this earth

To pass over as we say

This is where he goes to

and this is where he'l stay

 

He arrives within their universe

Wrapped in a silk cocoon

He'l rest in there for nine long months

And emerge like a flower in bloom

 

The mid-life parents,overjoyed

They stare in awe at him

They tend to every need he has

He returns their love to them

 

Too soon his mid-life years approach

His life is rich with fun

They must protect him, from himself

He is their precious son

 

As he grows younger, they'r  younger still

And heading for baby years

They'r young and slow, preparing to go

Confronting all their fears

 

The old man now full in his prime

And wishing his own cocoon

And shedding a tear, for his parents dear

He knows must leave him soon

 

A prayer is said for the baby souls

As they flee through the night, unseen

To a waiting womb in another earth

Not knowing where they have been

 

Round the bed the prayers are said

an old man departing soon...

And the man in the parallel universe..

toasts to his own cocoon.

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Nov 10, 2010
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