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Observer's Aid
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 504
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![]() I had orginally posted this on July 6, 2005 under the wrong topic heading (General Topic). I was very new to the board and didn't know exactly how to do posting. I am reposting here to assure it is in the right place.
I hope you all don't mind the reposting. THE LEAP by Helen Gerhard C 2005 A flash of blue light Pure energy of life One being enters the fray The other to a room far away Each ask "Why am I here?" The one to whom this is Another assignment to live Looks around, curious, afraid, unsure Trying to understand and learn more To know "Why am I here?" The other in that small room With only bed and table Is unnerved and in total disarray Understanding only this isn't like any other day Pleads "Why am I here?" A man with kind eyes Dressed in primary colors Mixed on a pallet of eccentric hues Speaks to the other so as to diffuse The feared "Why am I here?" Explained that they are there In a room with bed and table Looking at a mans face not their own Because of a strange experiment which intones Each life "Why am I here?" The man in multicolored attire Obtains name, time, and circumstances Then quickly leaves that little space Ready to help his friend embrace A new "Why am I here?" His friend exists in a life At once alien and new Attempts to learn the ebb and flow Of this other's life so that he can know And act out "Why am I here?" All the people to whom he speaks An interacts with do not know That the one they see is not "on sight" That somehow a man's been sent to make something right That's Why he is here. A sliver of white appears And the man in brilliant clothes Enters the scene, cigar in sync Pushing buttons on a computer's hand held link To help answer "Why am I here?" The two talk about how time unfolds And what happens that makes it that way That God, Fate, Time, or Whoever is needing changed While the people around wonder if the person they see is deranged While he learns "Why he is here." They see him talking into thin air Gestering, acting as if someone's responding They do not, can not know that this is life Regardless of living the fear and strife When performing "Why he is here." Someone's life is sure to need The changes he was sent to make Often at risk to life, limb, and mind But he's there to do it because he's kind And will complete "Why he is here." Through it all the man named Al In funky clothes and hologram self Helps his friend to know what the other could not And therefore allows the changes to be made in this plot So his friend achieves "Why he is here." The things the traveler does in many ways Are done to help because he truly cares But in his heart, his mind, his body and his soul He desires to be at home and to once again be whole Back where he knows "Why he is here." Another flash of blue completes The circle for this Quantum Leap The other from the room returns now out of a jam While the one who travels through time, named Sam Will ask again "Why am I here?" ___________________________ ![]() "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." - Albert Einstein Last edited by asearcher : 02-12-2006 at 04:45 AM.
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Project Observer
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Vestavia, Alabama
Posts: 803
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![]() This is the one you were telling me about! I had read it, but it was a while ago, and I didn't remember a lot of it. I loved it, it was wonderful!
Samantha Beckett
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