PHENOMENON - A Poem by Jim Patton

PHENOMENON

I was walking home from the movie show

when it happened this dark summer night.

The three mile walk from town to our house

this time filled me with fright.

As I crested the hill where the golf course

starts with the smell of new hay in the air,

The sky lit up like a bright full moon,

but I looked and no moon was there.

I walked down the road and looked for the source,

no logical reason to find.

Further down the light sharply stopped,

and cold chills ran down my spine.

I started to run like an animal trapped,

my one thought to reach the dark side.

The only pain was the fear I felt as I ran

for the darkness to hide.

I reached my goal and rushed into the night,

no backward glance to make.

Out of the light my fear disappeared

yet my knees continued to shake.

I wonder at times, though years have pased,

what was it created that light.

No natural source, of that I am sure

and sometimes I still feel the fright.