As Time Goes By
You know sometimes you have to wait a long time for something you never thought you could be part of to happen. You try to imagine it and feel as if you have the skills needed to deal with it. But time is a relative thing and that is not always what is needed to succeed.
As you sit and ponder you become less and less concerned about it and when it leaves your mind completely it happens.
You are sitting on a boulder in the campground. You watch the sky as day becomes night. That is when you see it. It is a star. A very bright star and it is moving quite fast. Maybe, you think, it is a jet or other flying object, but no, you can tell exactly what it is, for it looks like the sun only smaller.
As you watch you see underneath it a bright blue light. This confuses you. Lights don’t shine without something to light them. This you ponder. The star is brighter than any star you have seen before. The light on the other hand, though visible, wavers as it seems to get closer to you.
You think to yourself that this is some sort of mirage caused by the tedium of the day and your tiredness. You even pinch yourself to see if it is a dream. That pinch hurts, this is no dream. Then again, wouldn’t a pinch in a dream hurt as part of the dream? You ignore that thought.
Your mind tries to focus. Time passes. The blue light gets closer. The star on the other hand begins to fade. You try to get up.
You can feel the ache of every muscle as you try to move. You’ve been sitting too long. Slowly, as you rise the blue light disappears. You rub your eyes to get clarity. The star is no longer there. But then again neither is the boulder you were sitting on.
You look around you and the terrain is different. There are fields of well-manicured grass. There are gardens of exotic flowers. There are strange-looking artifacts that don’t look like anything you have ever seen. And surrounding it all there is a bubble of clear glass. You are small compared to the dome around you. There is no one else that you can see around you for miles. This confuses you even more. You do not know where you are.
Time is an interesting thing. Sometimes it goes fast and other times it drags on. What has happened? What is real and what is not? Once you were in Roswell and now you are here. You wish you were a doctor or scientist and had the answers. But you are not. Back in Roswell, you are just another storyteller with time to tell a tale that few will believe.
