For I stood upon a platform

Ready to take a flight

Where it was I was going

Meant nothing to me that night

But the engineer

Said all is ready here

And off I went

Like a rocket leaping swiftly off our planets sphere

Into space and was spinning

The moon flew by like

A seconds glancing

The stars I passed a many

But leaped and bounced

As a poetic dancer

Fully free

And sound

Unbound

Joy overflowed

I was filled with plenty

And to me I needed it to be never ending

Yet I ended up in a dark wall-less room

With a gleaming wooded old treasure chest

That was beckoning my soul to not fall along with its call

It shot light beams through its ever-old cracks

I pondered a minute

And said I want a wife and kids

Then I was swiftly tooken back

I awoke not knowing where I was

Dazed and confused of what I just saw

Then I finally realized my place

I said man!!

I just refused

Some gift from above

I hope I never do that again

But I know I’ll have my place

It wont come fast or slow

And I’ll open it

For it’s full of Grace

From the best of any a friend

That any man can ever comprehend

Ryan Brady O’Reilly

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