People Born Knowing Poem by Terence George Craddock

there are people born knowing
knowing events that will or will not be
truth beyond speaker words relating to what is said
will come to pass past;
my grandmother called me Old Top
when I was a few years old she claimed
I was an old soul
who had walked this world many times;

that grandmother did several strange things
including having conversations
with people asleep
sometimes told people a few future facts
in their futures
often implausible yet

never wrong;
a few may in dreams
remember conversations
before their birth with beings
of light warning of life difficulties
before entering this birth life;
those who dream glimpses
of future events on rare occasions

then watch this exact future when it happens
accept these puzzle pieces are understood
in detail after the event;
once in Jakarta after writing poetry half the night
I was meditating in a buzz harmony of light
when a wild large luwak left a fruit tree walked

a cable in the darkness to the balcony where I stood
walked steadily direct to my face shared a breath turned
walked back into darkness;
some believe not in facts
theory but
through direct experiences;


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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luwak is a local name for the Asian palm civet