There is a certain time for old men
When we step softly around closed doors
Of other times,
Hoping not to disturb them.

We begin to observe
Stop signs and we heed them.
Better to not bring up
Things of the past.

Instead we think of a more innocent time,
Smiling outwardly,
Remembering how we were as young boys,
Just beginning to notice girls.

Secretly falling in love with our
Fifth-grade teacher
Who smiled a lot,
And smelled so good.

These open doors are ours to visit,
It is the closed ones,
The one with locks on them,
That we scurry past with a quick look.

We do stop sometimes,
Stare at certain doors
Until our eyes begin to mist over,
And we quickly move on by.

It is when we look around,
Seeing no one and open that door,
That our nightmares
Take us places we fear and dread.

©February 2, 2011 / Jerry Pat Bolton

"MAGICAL," a novel co-authored by Jerry Pat Bolton and Jane Noponen Perinacci

Elin Saari has lived with terror no woman should ever have to endure. Devlin Grimm, the man she fell hard for turned out to be so cruel she began to silently call him Satan. The years spent with Satan were so severe she truly felt she had no mind of her own. Something inside of her made her break away and file for divorce. Satan upped the ante and she had to run to get away from him. But wherever she went he would find and harass her. She was at her wits end when something profound happened. Through the magic of a strange necklace she began to receive messages, until desperately she tried to summon whoever was trying to contact her. When Touch Starlin' walked into her life and explained who he was and how closely connected they were Elin could not remember at first. Touch took charge of trying to rid her of Satan – the name she had pinned on him was closer to the truth that she could have ever known. Satan follows them wherever they go and Elin begins to doubt Touch's Powers.

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