By Eric, thenuttman@aol.com
Date: 20 June 2000
Boomerang
the dreamers skim the ancient burial grounds for rocks that lead to stories that could be told on the history channel
in those rocks may be bones of dinosaurs or Indian cultures and civilizations that may lead us to believe that at one point in time, aliens visited and gave Runs-With-Wings a boomerang.
that boomerang could have soared through a crisp, clear blue sky touching clouds that very few humans had had a chance to pollute.
the clouds could build and build and one day, in the near future, form a rain cloud that would burst and flood the valleys and plains and eventually, they would flood Runs-With-Wings' home.
the flood fills the grassy areas and becomes a seascape and in the midst of all the confusion...Runs-With-Wings can not overcome the overpowering waters, and he drowns...
hundreds, if not thousands of years later, a simple farming man is tilling the hard soil that he has tilled for years and he gets stuck, deep in a rocky, muddy, pit that has been forming for years from a natural spring...
upon being freed from the pre-mature grave, the man notices something odd jutting from an edge of one of the rocky walls...
he discovers the boomerang...upon getting it cleaned up, he and his son go out into a clearing in the field and attempt to throw the boomerang...
the ancient toy curves in the wind, bouncing off of hot air masses like mountain tops...quickly spins and flies straight back to the boy and his father and lands very close by...an amazing feat to the boy, even though the fater would have preferred to have caught the flying object upon its return...
all the excitement and extreme laughter causes a sharp, shooting pain in the left arm of the old man...
he topples over and crumbles at the knees, falling to the hard dirt below and grabs at his chest as he soon feels no pain and sees a bright white light and takes one last breath...
the son, in shock runs to get his mother...
the burial takes place in that very field, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust"...
hundreds, if not thousands of years from now, a man will be digging around, attempting to find remnants of the 20th Century...yearning to know exactly what caused the downfall of man and put the world into a chaotic spin...
he stumbles across a grave site...the Mans family...A man, seems to have died in his late 40s, apparently his wife, in her 50s...what could be the son and his wife....missing limbs, obviously killed young, probably in their 20s or 30s...nothing would have alarmed the would-be scientist...however, not too far from the grave...the fossilized wood of a boomerang...
through the fog of naivety...the scientist scrambles to assume that this one bit of evidence proves that the downfall of man was due to this object that had earlier that decade been discovered to have been hand delivered to the Indians by aliens, many thousands of years ago...
---What, you may ask, does this have to do with love? Imagine "love" being given to us from God, from Heaven...and lost and found throughout generations....Can you imagine a future where people would believe that love is what caused us to all turn against each other? Or could it be the lack there-of?
Just a thought.
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