The Land Beyond

I looked at my watch and it was the twenty third of May and I suppose it was the same year. I had left home with just enough food for a few hours and that would be gone soon. I remember the clock on the kitchen wall when I left home and it was five thirty A.M. I knew that I couldn’t hunt for deer in the month of May and then I started to wonder what was I doing here in May when I had left home in the month of October nineteen seventy seven. I was recollecting my thoughts again and I had tried to write a book on the life of the hereafter. Now I knew that I couldn’t be dead cause there was no way that I could die. Still that eerie feeling came back to me. I felt no pain and I wanted to stay. How could a person live without food or water all this time and still see all this. Boy, I was really getting upset now. If I was dead how was I going to tell the folks back home that I had found paradise and not to bury we cause I am not ready yet. I walked a little way’s and the stag stayed by my side and that felt good to have such a beautiful animal by my side. The stag gave a leap and went to a tree that had the most beautiful fruit that I had ever laid eyes on. I went to pick some of the fruit and saw that it was good. I had my fill and then walked a little further. I came to this little stream that was flowing ever so gently down the valley. The water had that certain glow to it and it was the purest water that I have ever tasted. No doubt about it I must have been killed some how and was trying to adjust to my new home. I knew that I had loved one’s back home but I didn’t really miss them. I wondered about this and didn’t quite understand why. I thought that if I could walk a little further that I would come out of this dream. I was going to tell every body that paradise was just a little way’s from where I had seen the stag. I knew the place well and there would be no difficulties getting back here. I walked quite a way’s and all I could see was just more and more of this beautiful land that time must have forgotten. Here I was right in the middle of it. Now if what I had read and what was suppose to be the truth, then I had no right being here. I wasn’t that good. I had debts to pay and I as one was just as bad as the rest. Then I wondered again.

I told myself that I was only dreaming and like always I would wake up and experience that most vivid dream that I have ever had. Oh, well, I had only to wait when the morning meal would bring me out of the unconscious state of sleep. Like I remember one time when I had been dreaming, I had this most beautiful girl in my arms and what we did was just pure love and understanding. I didn’t want the dream to end but it did. Seems though I can’t resist the smell of bacon and eggs in the morning so I wake up and the dream is gone. Now the time has come again when I don’t want to wake up. I keep noticing that the stag is always by my side. I am trying to put it all together and I have trouble doing it. I keep thinking about the unusual date that I’m here and the date that I left. All this seems confusing but I don’t seem to panic. Whether I noticed it or not but there were these beautiful birds that had landed right close by and I was again amazed. I was just about to sit down when I spotted this unusual animal. It was pure white and had a horn right in the middle of its forehead. Now I knew that I was dreaming. From what I had read and believed this animal was the famous unicorn that was destroyed at the time of Noah’s Ark. Boy, I had to snap out of at pretty quick or else I was going to be the laughing stock of the town. How could I have such a dream and not tell it to every body. The unicorn had come over to where the stag was and they both indicated that there was no need to fear. There was no fear just a lot of funny things that I couldn’t put together. After I had witnessed the fact that the two beasts were to be my guide I sat down. There was a light mist that covered my feet and that didn’t seem to bother me after what I went through already. I don’t think that I have ever seen so many beautiful things in this land that was lost. It had to be lost cause there were no indications that evil ever lurked here. Even though I knew what fear was I didn’t have it now. I was just concerned. The more I wondered, the more things happened. It was like looking at a Technicolor movie. Nothing as the same, I got a new view every time I looked. I then got up and thought that any moment now I would wake up. I needed so much good sleep but this was just a little bit out of the way.