Have you ever felt
That another presense was there?
Or someone somewhere
Was calling your name?
I have felt these things,
And many many more.
Things that simply happen,
But I just can't explain.
Several times in my life,
I have experienced such feelings.
Events that unfurled
With no sensible explanation.
I will tell you of one such event,
That will give your skin a crawl.
This is one of many times,
When things did unfold.
Once when my sons were very young,
We were envited to go boating with friends.
But the night before we were to go,
I dreamed of a terrible accident.
I awoke with a start,
The cancelled the days outing.
Later I learned their boat overturned,
But they all swam and were safe.
If we had gone on that outing,
Changes are my sons would have drowned.
I can swim good enough,
But not enough to have saved my sons.
That isn't all that I have endured,
For I can sometimes sense when someone is near.
I feel a presense behind me,
And sure enough there is.
Then there are times so strange,
That I wonder if I've been reincarnated.
I enter a room I've never seen,
But I feel I've been there before.
There are times when I'm half alseep,
And I suddenly hear someone yell my name.
I open my eyes to see who's there,
But the room is empty except for me.
Once in a while I'll have an odd dream,
That certain things are about to happen.
A day or two or maybe a week later,
A terrible accident somewhere happens.
And then there are those times,
That is very hard to explain.
A person I've only just met seems so familiar to me,
And we become forever life-long friends.
I don't claim to have ESP,
To any special degree.
But sometimes I know things,
That I have no rhyme or reason.
You've probably experienced,
Some of these things yourself.
It's not unusual you see,
Everyone is born with the knowing.
There are some who keep this knowing,
And some who try to develope it.
But a lot of people lose this talant,
When they are still so very young.
An awareness;
Or a foreboding.
Empathy of sorrow;
And obscure impressions.
Feelings of danger,
Or someone there.
De ja veu or sensations,
Of strange and eerie feelings
by Jann Newland
(copyright - 2000)
