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Balloon Ride Over Paradise
by James Shammas (Age: 44)
copyright 07-30-2005


Age Rating: 10 to 127

 
An AA meeting in Amagansatt
Was the perfect place to tell his story:
The hot-air balloon ride over Nairobi,
The stiff-lipped Englishman and his cronies
Floating freely over pink plains,
Prairies teeming with creation,
The overwhelming ectasy heretofore
Unseen from borrowed bloodshot eyes.

Fear forced him to spirits and wine
(Heaven is as scary as Hell),
His hijacked mind and fumbling fingers
Fast veering the bobbing basket,
Dropping the six sober passengers; then
The dark Masai hands that pulled them out,
Black brothers and sons shielding them from
Heaven's horrors: the vultures and lions,

The jungle's law which discriminates not,
Neither there nor here in the sanctuary
Of the sane sober mind, here in humble halls
Where his fellow brethren sit, rescuers themselves.
He doesn't know he is Adam, drunken Noah
And all mankind too,
Singing Felix Culpa!-- the Fortunate Fall,
Falling in Paradise within four small walls.




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08-02-2005 David Pekrul    

What a great story! We all need a rescuer from time to time, whether it be from something physical or from the demons within.
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