Super Powers (Part one)
First I knew, I was awaking up from a coma.
I felt great!! No problems I could find.
Someone said “How long have I known ya.”
“I’ve never seen you lay around all the time.”
“What? Where am I? What happened?”
“You’ve been in a coma for a few days .”
“You fell off a cliff while we were mapping.”
“Taking readings and leaving stays.”
“We work for Cal Trans, remember now?”
“It is starting to come back to me.”
“I still feel like I am in a fog somehow.”
“I do feel like I have to pee.”
“I’ve been here how long? How bad was I hurt?”
“Four days. You’re lucky to be alive.”
“You were air lifted here, for what it’s worth.”
“The trauma center near home. A short drive.”
“You’re parents & sister were here a lot.”
“I have stayed here waiting for you to come around.”
“Well, let’s go home then. A burger would hit the spot.”
“Wait a minute. You had better slow down.”
“You were near death. You scared us quite a lot.”
“But, I feel fine. No aches or pains. My head has cleared.”
“You need to be checked out by a doctor.”
“Call him in then. Quit acting weird.’
A couple hours later the doctor was in shock.
“You check out 100% well. That’s impossible.”
“No signs of broken bones or head trauma.”
“It’s a miracle. My family’s prayers made it possible.”
“I guess you can go. Can’t hold you, though I wanna.”
Later I said I had a vision while in a coma.
But, I couldn’t recall it, other than it was important.
“Don’t worry now about what happened while in a coma.”
“Just be glad you’re well now. You want Morton’s?”
Morton’s Burgers was coming up on the right.
“Yes, that would be perfect. I am really hungry.”
I was eating practically everything in sight.
“I guess that IV didn’t work like munchies.”
“I guess not. Let’s get home; it’s almost dinner.”
They surprised everyone when they arrived.
“It was a miracle and I was the winner.”
“Thanks for all your prayers. I survived.”
I slept like a log that night in my own bed.
The next day is when I realized things were different.
It wasn’t just things I was thinking in my head.
I now had ‘powers’ that were more than sufficient.
———————————————————-R.W. Johnson—–(2020)