The Twilight Zone Poem by sidney hall (The Mad Poet)

Docs words repeated over and over in his head,
“And then I’ll cease to exist, I’ll… be dead.”
He shivered as he lit up a smoke,
The news seemed like an April fool joke.

He looked back through the glass door,
As he watched his son of ten, playing on the floor.
He turned away when he felt the pain under his vest,
From the cancerous wound that protruded from his chest.

It made his world begin to indiscriminately spin,
His legs shook violently as if his spirit tried to break out his skin.
He dropped heavily to his knees
And looked up saying “Not yet, God please”
“Give me a little more time with my little one, ”
“To explain it to my son”

A white light for a split second flashed around him
From a flying object up high that shot out this beam
He was stunned for a short while
Then suddenly felt his chest and began to smile

The cancer was removed from his chest
“I’m healthy and strong like the rest”
He turned to tell the happy new to his son
But instead he didn’t see anyone

Opening the door, he called for his son and his wife
Suddenly he was hit by a man carrying a knife
The intruder was a soldier or that’s how he dressed
As they wrestled the knife plunged in his chest

He screamed, “Please don’t hurt my son John, ”
The intruder’s eyes showed that something was wrong.
And what he said was stranger still
He called out “Dad is that you? ” which gave him an eerie chill.

The intruder said “But how can this be? ”
“You went missing 25 years ago you see”
“One minute you were smoking out side the next you were gone, ”
He gasped for air as he lay dying on the lawn

The stranger looked up “Please God, I can’t loose my father all over again! ! ! ”
But this time there was not light
as the
life
began
to
drain….