Stitches In Time

There once was a boy twenty-seven in age,

who lived in a center of meditation,

the center received him with great anticipation,

they said we've never seen someone with such a natural inclination,

your posture says you've been master in many past lives and have held many high stations.

They offered the boy a place of quiet habitation,

one of discipline and deliberation,

they said it takes two years of persistent dedication to receive such an offer,

but it is clear you are gifted, they then shifted the rules of man,

at least that is what they called them and opened the doors at two weeks in,

and thus the journey began, to travel back in time and wipe from the mind,

all that has been written, they taught him to trace back the root cause of his actions,

with great satisfaction he discovered many buried things that plagued his brain,

like how he was raped and molested at two by his babysitter,

he thought he had a problem, but the truth was much sicker,

but many tools he had been given, to no longer be grave-stricken by hauntings of the past,

and so at last, dove back in time to face all that tried to cast a shadow on his future,

he went with such precision to erase the pains of derision from a lifetime of clouded vision,

like a surgeon finishing his work and sowing the final suture,

he was thus bolstered like the claims of a modern day booster,

as he returned he found it took more time than anticipated to decondition,

the conditions he grew accustomed to, despite the past has changed with his new view,

but all that was skewed was corrected, with greater attention ever were his disciplines respected,

one day however, the boy witnessed something for what he was not prepared,

those at the center were at a much higher level than the sorry devil,

who in his ignorance feared what he did not understand,

thus he fled, in part because the rules of man weren't respected,

he found himself in the next state over,

alone and dumbfounded, vision again once clouded,

he invited a homeless man into his home on a lonely thanksgiving day,

before the man came in the boy told him he must leave at one a.m. to which he agreed,

to his surprise did that man have some things to say,

even more shocking he was no man at all but a demon in the flesh manifest,

the demon was raging, the demon was screaming,

the demon could scribble on paper the thoughts the boy was thinking,

the demon agitated and in his arrogance asked the boy don't you know who you are?

The boy shook his head not knowing, and the demon proclaimed the boy was the oldest time traveler in existence,

I killed you in two past lives he exclaimed, one of which right after you saved me,

then his eyes filled with tears obviously from harboring the pain after so many years,

the boy pure of heart forgave him with a hug then wisdom saved him,

and quickly retreated, the demon was in pursuit but was physically injured so could not catch him,

but before the boy could even notice, in what was such a sudden moment,

the demon quit pursuit and said he must leave at once,

the boy confused and perplexed did not see how that was possible,

then next thing he knew the clock struck one, and the agreement was held true,

it wasn't until many years later that the boy learned that is what demons will do.