A Dead Man's Ghost [Shearing the Silence/Second Sight] I knew he was dead, I mean dead As I carried him on my shoulders Out of the River; no longer warm. His ghost walked beside me, He never glanced at me, never Not once, I was quite relieved. I stopped, he stopped, and we stopped; I moved, he moved, we both moved; He walked beside me with equal steps, I felt the silence of his death. As I carried the dead man, limp Minutes wore on and on and on I got tired; thus shearing the silence To its jagged edge, I, I Whispered, "...how heavy he is'; Still gthe ghost said naught. I know now, no man can say what What the mind of another man... May be suffering in the Afterlife. He never looked at me once!... #761 7/11/05 Notes on: Second Sight: There remain mysteries in life you know; sometimes we don't even know what we have certain -if not breathless" ?insights into the tides and ripples of spheres around earth; for earth is surely a special planet within our solar system; yet others do, that is, others know we have certain capabilities. I have known such people with second sight. I believe it is on one hand a gift, on the other it can be a curse, and if I had three hands, it could be trained to be both. |