It seems there is only one way through.
I wouldn’t even attempt it, if not for you.
It is dangerous beyond comprehension.
The risks are way too many to even mention.
I must dodge the ion rays, go through hell.
Risks that are too unknown for me to tell.
I have made it. I have survived.
I am shocked that I am alive.
They have found me and taken me in.
They do not believe about where I have been.
Many others have tried and all have died.
They had their skin burned off while still alive.
I explained that I came out, not going in.
It is different when you are from within.
How did I get there in the first place?
We woke up one day and it was in our face.
We were trapped like rats in a trap.
I could not explain much more than that.
What was that place I was in?
We don’t know. No one can go in.
Others are in there. They need our help.
They seemed to understand just how I felt.
Area ‘X’ is unknown to us all.
One day nothing. Next day the wall.
The force field surrounds it for miles around.
Planes can’t even fly over, we have found.
Tell us everything that you can.
Maybe we can come up with a plan.
The little I knew didn’t help very much.
My information was little more than a crutch.
It has been there a year and is slowly growing.
Also it has started to have increased glowing.
A year? For us, it was barely a month.
A distortion in time would be my hunch.
This whole thing is totally alien to us.
For knowing so little, they began to blush.
The answer is obvious, can’t you see?
To penetrate this thing, you have to become me.
Not literally, but in every other sense of the word.
I know, I know, it sounds a little absurd.
Hypnotize me and learn all you can.
They did that, and learned about—– ‘The Man.’
———————————————–R.W. Johnson—–(2019)