It all started when I was three.
Something pretty bizarre happened to me.
They looked for me, but I was gone.
They were worried someone had come along.
Somehow, someone had stolen me away.
They knew I couldn’t get out to play.
Still, they searched inside and out.
It seems I was nowhere about.
Later that day, I was back again.
They immediately asked me where I’d been.
I said I hadn’t gone anywhere.
All the time, I had been right there.
I couldn’t understand the state they were in.
All I knew was the thunder had gotten in.
When I was twelve, it happened again.
This time, I was with a friend.
We were walking in the woods.
We knew to get home when we should.
Suddenly, I was no longer there.
They couldn’t find me anywhere.
My friend ran to get help.
When he arrived, he was by his self.
Frightened, he said I was there, then gone.
I had just vanished. He knew something was wrong.
They searched for a day and a half.
No sign was found. Not even a track.
1 ½ days later, they heard me calling for Buzz.
I was found walking. They asked how I was.
I said I was looking for my friend high & low.
He had vanished a few minutes ago.
They said I had been gone a day & a half.
What did I have to say about that?
I remembered nothing about it, then:
I remembered. Someone had let the thunder in.
I was 18 and graduated from high school.
Just sitting in my room with little to do.
I heard the thunder and I was gone.
This time I remember what went on.
I was in a white room in, like a dentist’s chair.
I called out, but, it seemed as no one was there.
Then a voice inside my head was heard.
“Mental telepathy is bringing you these words.”
“You were taken twice before to prepare you”
“Physical changes in mind and body as you grew.”
“All in preparation for what is to come.”
“You are being programmed to be the one”
“What? I am to be the one what?”
“We’ll tell you all. You’re not in a rut.”
“You’re being programmed to be a political leader”
“The greatest orator of all time. A real feeder.”
“You will feed the people on the perfect truth.”
“Lead them to everlasting peace. All else is moot.”
“Both political parties will bend to your will.”
“Soon after you take power, no one will kill.”
“You will lead the USA, then the whole world.”
“A major social revolution, you will herald.”
“Then your world will be ready to join others.”
“Those throughout the galaxy are these others.”
“A Galactic Federation of peace and understanding.”
“This will be what the earth is demanding.”
“We will lay out your curriculum at every step.”
“Once all goals have been met,
then you will be on your way.”
“You already have a built in desire to succeed.”
“When it’s time, you will have everything you need.”
I woke up lying on my bed.
I could remember it all in my head.
Then, a smile came to my face.
Someone let the thunder in. —Let’s make haste.
———————————————–R.W. Johnson—–(2019)