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After an uncertain amount of time He woke.  It was  bitter realizing He had died.  He knew he had not Been a particularly good man nor Bad.  He could not appeal his fate To a higher power but still was it His fate to be alive imprisoned in a Coffin?. For who could tell how Long? -it just did not seem right Indeed it was unacceptable to Him personally -to confront it Head on was insupportable His mind began to wander Hither and wither  only to Return to the gravity of His situation after many short Dalliances  with relatively Pleasanter thoughts--bit By bit like a Pavlovian dog He returned less and less At some point in his day Dreaming he drifted off To sleep thence to a dream In it He was alive in a far Land; a stranger it was  not Without its fascination but He keenly felt weighty Sense of being alone and Wondered at the wisdom Of venturing further He then came to upon A cross roads where the Paths diverged in a wood Suddenly He remembered He had died and if he woke That is where he had left It was that or choose to go On living in the dream. He chose the less traveled Path; and that has made All the difference; and the Rest is history as they say. Anyway it was long time ago but I should say that John after a long journey Did find his way back to his old Home and into the arms Of his Beloved sweetheart It was just another instance Of the strange occurrences At Owl Creek Bridge But I do not suppose you remember It was such a long time ago
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 12:13 PM UTC
John Cooper A Short History
After an uncertain amount of time He woke.  It was  bitter realizing He had died.  He knew he had not Been a particularly good man nor Bad.  He could not appeal his fate To a higher power but still was it His fate to be alive imprisoned in a Coffin?. For who could tell how Long? -it just did not seem right Indeed it was unacceptable to Him personally -to confront it Head on was insupportable His mind began to wander Hither and wither  only to Return to the gravity of His situation after many short Dalliances  with relatively Pleasanter thoughts--bit By bit like a Pavlovian dog He returned less and less At some point in his day Dreaming he drifted off To sleep thence to a dream In it He was alive in a far Land; a stranger it was  not Without its fascination but He keenly felt weighty Sense of being alone and Wondered at the wisdom Of venturing further He then came to upon A cross roads where the Paths diverged in a wood Suddenly He remembered He had died and if he woke That is where he had left It was that or choose to go On living in the dream. He chose the less traveled Path; and that has made All the difference; and the Rest is history as they say. Anyway it was long time ago but I should say that John after a long journey Did find his way back to his old Home and into the arms Of his Beloved sweetheart It was just another instance Of the strange occurrences At Owl Creek Bridge But I do not suppose you remember It was such a long time ago
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Aug 20, 2018
Aug 20, 2018 at 12:13 PM UTC
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