INTO THE DARK

“Right, that’s it I’m off, I can’t take any more…..

life is quite dull here, and it’s not like before “!

“Maybe a change of scenery is just what I need,

and I need to go now, and in transport of speed”!

So I went to the train station, because train travel had ‘more scope’,

and maybe travelling somewhere else would give me hope?

The ticket prices were beyond my means, and I couldn’t go far,

’in fact’ I could go further if I drank several pints in the bar”!

’I can have more trips in here, and all for a fraction of the price,

and I don’t need transport to travel, when the liquor’s at this nice!

The first pint was drunk, “and so I had ‘which felt like I was leaving

the station!

And I was on my way, and losing stress on my-“personal vacation”!

After a few drinks my attention was diverted,

by a young lady, and both of us flirted!

We ‘got on well’, and she said “let’s get out of here……

and go to another Galaxy, and onto another sphere “!

I thought that she was joking, until she showed me this machine,

which had lots of dials and buttons, and it looked reliably pristine,

It looked like a tent, but its base was square, and it was of solid frame,

and then she said “I’ve explored this Universe many times, and life’s

just like, a game”!

“There’s more life to live, but I’m happy here on Earth,

and I don’t want another Galaxy to witness my rebirth”!

I might, ‘first be’, a favoured pet, and I’ll return to share that love,

but if I suffer cruelty, then it will be noted from ‘high above’!

But, why take that risk, when you can travel with me instead,

I’m offering you a life of no worries, that may torture your troubled

head?

“So, come with me and I’ll take you to many places,

and you’ll see different landscapes, and some fascinating faces”,

it sounded intriguing and I said “please show me more”,

she replied with a smile' saying “come aboard, there’s lots to explore!

I would be leaving everything behind, and my World would ‘just be a

dot,

and my new lives would begin, and I look at life like ‘some kind’ of

plot!

I had to make a decision, and it was aided by alcoholic drink,

and so I ‘took the risk’ and went-“well, what did you think”?

but where were we going, and what would I see,

’I suppose there’ll be many lands to visit for me?

‘This decision would be bigger than I thought ‘,

because I liked my homely habits, my telly and my sport,

I did occasionally go out, but it was mostly to the launderette,

or sometimes to the local bookies, to place another bet!

But now I’ll be travelling far and wide and my excitement will never

end,

‘I wonder if they do postcards in outer space,and I can keep in touch,

but, I haven’t got any friends, and only next doors rabbit in its hutch!

I do go out, whenever I thought that it was safe to do,

“I fought, and almost died in a War to protect you “!

Now the opportunity has come, when excitement will be everyday,

because, now I could be flying high above, and I could be on my

way!

There was ‘very little’ room inside of this tent, and I couldn’t wait to get out! It was half the size to the fictional ‘flying carpet’, but this had a roof over it! So life in the future didn’t look like it would have ‘untold riches’!

She saw the disappointment in my face “You humans disregard many items, which have been floating around in Space for decades, and whatever is jettisoned ‘up here’, is used by the occupants on many of these planets…….‘and we have the powers to repair them”, she said in a tone of superiority, and then she continued, “so, if you decide to ‘stick around’, then you’ll see many perfectly working fridges, washing machines, tumble dryers, and old cookers, that feature inverted, and blemishing scarring, which is now known as being ‘recycled and characteristic’!

I could stay on this planet for a while, and I focused my eyes upon the other planets that I could see, and my attention to these planets was noted……………… “Those large gas planets are, what you humans call HELL, because they have poisonous gases, fierce weather conditions and large spiders, lizards and snakes, that live below the surface until they have to come up to the surface to hunt, and then eat ‘one another’!

There are a few dummy planets to occupy, and to satisfy a humans curiosity, and HELL could possibly exist, but not in the way that we expected it to be, or perhaps that it’s on another planet, that is in another galaxy far away hopefully? Hopefully our will power, and our ‘tested’ belief, will help to ward off this evil, that we’ll all experience, BUT in what ‘strength and test’?

We have examples of Hell in dummy planets in this Galaxy, and consider those gas planets as a warning! These planets are toxic, lifeless and suffer ferocious storms 24/7! You don’t want to go there”, she said with fear in her voice, and I withdrew my gaze, before the thought of there being a toxic gas, would ruin my eyesight!

She held onto me tightly, before I enquired “how am I breathing” I asked with real concern, that soon turned into panic,

“Don’t worry”, she said, “you’re breathing through me, so don’t wander off somewhere”, she laughed as I gazed into the distance, “and so, if you think that I’m a bit ‘clingy, then I’m helping you to breathe”!

My eyes were drawn towards this very bright cluster of stars, or this very bright light, what were they, or what was it”? I stared at them with great intensity,

”What are you looking at now”? She asked with interest, and possibly frustration!

”is there human life somewhere else, and perhaps in between those planets”? I replied with curiosity ‘once more’,

”Yes” she replied with happy confidence, that is what ‘you humans’ call heaven, and underneath is the exit, that’ll return you to earth “if you want to return, but that option is only offered to those who deserve that choice, and who want to”? Those four bright globes are protecting this ‘new World, and it’s sunny all of the time, but after remembering what you confessed earlier, ‘she grinned’, there are no big and poisonous spiders on their, nor any ‘creepy crawlies’, “they’re all on HELL, and that’s why they’re always angry little buggers!

”What then”, I excitedly continued with the question, “so there are no vicious snakes or creepy crawlies on here, or wild, or viciously savage beasts to beware of”?

”Absolutely none” she calmly replied,

”Where do I sign-up”? I initially and excitedly joked, “this is a ‘great find’, I’ll try to have regular holidays here”!

” I hope not”, she replied with care, and she looked at me to gauge if there was any seriousness in my face ,”You wouldn’t leave the planet earth” she said questionably, but there was a bit of hope in her tone,

”why not, I don’t need money because there is nothing to buy, and there doesn’t seem to be any jobsto earn money, or any shops to spend money in anyway!

”No”, she confirmed “you don’t need money here, and you don’t even need to work, you’ll always have me by your side though”, she said gently and reassuringly, enchanting me with her words, and I felt like I was becoming attached,

“I am so very sorry” I said with frustration, straining my brain to try to remember any information, “but what did you say your name was, and what did you say you did for a living”?

”My name is Angel, and this is where I work”! “I work for a man that ‘comes under several names, such as ‘your maker’, ‘The boss’, ‘he who guides us’, and he is ‘rightly worshipped by millions, who ‘go through the motions of either praying, or marking the figure of the cross over their faces and chest, and looking up to the ‘heavens’-“we aren’t wasting our time”!