If my life were a Twilight Zone Episode

If my life were a Twilight Zone Episode,
I would want it to be like Night of the Meek
when a drunk who drinks because he's tired of the suffering he sees around him
becomes Santa Claus so he can give gifts all the time.

If my life were a Twilight Zone Episode
maybe I'd get to see real justice, and not just karma.
I'd see all the things people who believe in Jesus
would see; Hope for the hopeless, a second chance for those who didn't deserve it
justice for those who needed it and punishment for those who deserve it.
My joy wouldn't just be because of my kids,
but because I could see justice, and it wouldn't just be a faith, it would be a reality.

In my Twilight Zone Episode life, the plot to kill Hitler would succeed and all those who were involved would not be strung up and strangled on piano wire for Hitler's jollies. Bonhoffer would not need to be hanged naked at a concentration camp, and all those in the SS along with those who willingly participated in the Shoah, the extermination of Jews, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, would receive their just reward in this life, in terms of punishment for what they contributed to the suffering of innocent people. In my Twilight Episode life, the innocents would escape with their lives and those responsible for trying to kill them would receive the justice they deserved. It would be like a Night Gallery episode where a concentration camp SS Killer would find himself trapped inside the painting of a crucifixion by a concentration camp survivor, frozen forever in a scream.

Jean Jones teaches English as a Second Language Basic Skills for Cape Fear Community College. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio and has a book of poems available on Amazon.com entitled Beyond Good and Evil. He has had poems published in Aphelion as well as Horror Zine online.

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