Down To Me

Now this, JJ, is quite a dark poem, but nevertheless, it is a magnificent one. I really liked the line
"The fingerprint of my soul etched upon the surface"

Truly a wonderful write that I enjoyed reading immensely.

Thank you Jess! I started writing this last week, but my mood was very low and I needed to set it aside so I could clear my head and finish it. I only made a few changes and the line you liked the best is one I added today, so putting it off for a few days turned out to be a good thing! Thanks for a magnificent comment!!! JJ

JJ, what a poem!! Dark and powerful. Yet I sense a sad mellowness in it. Like you have excepted your fate is coming to an end soon. I for sure pray that it doesn't. Many other lives are yet to be blessed by your touch of friendship and luv. Just as you have touched those (ME as one) who already know you. :)

Thanks for commenting Gail. It was just after I started the "End of the World as we know it" competition When I wrote this and I was thinking about God deciding to leave me alive and alone on a desserted planet to live for eternity while Lucifer longs for the taste of my soul that will never be satisfied as long as I can't die. Thses are the things that occupy my mind in one form or another. Alone in life, alone in death and always wishing it would end... I've been struck by lightening 3 times and didn't die, so try explaining that along with the many other impossibilities I've experienced. JJ

I was going to write a fictional story about a guy struck by a lightning who can withstand megavolts of electricity and able to read the minds of his peers.

Hope you can share your experiences with me JJ in a PM. Thanks...

I enjoy reading this poem while I feel your pain. While I like its content, I disagree with your dark thoughts. Stay on the positive side JJ for you're an inspiration to many.

I feel what I feel and I write about my feelings in my poetry. Feelings are not intelligent, they exist beyond the mind, perhaps created in the soul, if not in the heart. Well, as far as the shocking experience of untamed electrons firing down from the heavens, I seem to be alive. At least I think I am. Unfortunately I can't read minds and didn't get any super powers from it, HA! But then, if I had I wouldn't tell anyone or the next thing you know, I'd be taken by the government and experimented on or used to gain control over the world. At the very least, I would know where bad people hide their money and not be in such a financial mess of my own. And thanks for commenting.
JJ

Like I said, mine would be a fictional story. I just like to gain an insight on how it feels to get struck by a lightning not once but thrice; if you don't mind.

Was the last one different from the first, and if so, in what way?

Well, to tell you the truth, I can't remember how it felt and most of the details I got from others nearby. I blacked out but there was a very weird feeling and perception that I had when I faded back into reality. I wasn't sure if I was even alive. I couldn't feel my body and I was surrounded by a mist which may or may not have been smoke, because the strike actually hit my ham radio antenna array and came through the wires when it hit me. It arced through the air from the wire and hit my hand. I have a scar on my hand from it. I don't remember the moment the lightening jumped the wire, but I did recall that I was disconnecting my antennas because I could hear the thunder getting closer. The plastic casing on the wire was melted off.
Thw second time I was with a friend walking down the street on a Sunny day. A big white puffy cloud came overhead and it started to rain really hard, so we stopped under a tree. There was no previous thunder and suddwnly there was a loud explosion and we both looked up to see the top of the tree we were under lit up with sparks. Before we could even begin to run, we were both knocked off our feet and into the air about 10 feet. We got up running and went about 3 blocks in 10 seconds. Didn't remember it at all, my friend told me what happened after. I just knew we were running really fast and I wasn't sure why. We went back to check out the tree after the cloud past by and it was still burning, so I know he wasn't lying, but the only part I remember was running really fast. Another time I was across the street from a power pole that got struck and I could feel the air tingling, but it didn't actually strike me, just made my hair stand on end and I could feel the heat when it hit the pole. There was a fourth time I don't count because it wasn't close enough to have any effect on me other than scare the vrap out of me. It was just really loud and sudden. I don't recommend hanging around me in a thunder storm...

JJ, thanks a lot for sharing your story; that means a lot to me. I wrote about my close encounter with death together with my fiancee in the direct path of a thunderstorm a few months ago, and that was nothing compared to yours.

Those were just the lightening ones. I have nearly been killed in a few car accidents, though I was not driving. Once I fell asleep at the wheel when i got called into work late at night and had to drive 30 miles to get there. Drove over the center line and woke up with the headlights of a tacktor trailor coming right at me. I swerved out of the way just in time. Also, jumped off a waterfall and nearly hit the rocks on the way down. My friends were all watching and thought I hit them. Another time I juped off the same waterfall, two kids came out from under the falls while I and a friend were on our way down. I missed them but my friend hit one of them and he was badly injured. I was alot heavier then and if I hit that other kid, he would definately have been killed and I would have likely been hurt too. Life is a risk, but if you worry about what can happen you might never go out. Besides, I was in my bedroom the one time the lightening got me, so being inside doesn't mean anything.

JJ