Kenneth Edward Barnes

4 yrs

Here is something that happened many years ago in 1992. I believe the words are self explanatory in the first poem: The second poem explains the first.

The Paradoxical Dream
One night, while sleeping, I saw a vision or a dream. / In it, there was a pair of pants of half leather, half denim, and joined at the seams.
The front half and back half were sewn together and were very odd indeed. / At the time, I didn’t understand, just what this could possibly mean.
“These are paradoxical jeans,” a voice said, as I studied the odd sight. / I then awoke and chuckled to myself because of the silly vision of the night.
But a few days later, another dream came that was stranger still. / Only a voice spoke this time and said a word that would later give me chills.
“That’s the silliest word I’ve ever heard,” I thought, as I awoke and laid there in my bed. / “That’s bellabuggery,” was the entire dream, for that’s all the voice said.
The next day, I had to check to see if there was such an odd sounding word. / Could there really be a meaning to something I had never heard?
The word was not in the dictionary; yet it was, for it was just like the jeans. / The word was two joined together. Then I knew the meaning of the dreams.
Two opposites together are a paradox, and God said it was an abomination to him. / For a clean and unclean thing to be joined, and he called it a terrible sin.
Like Pharaoh’s dreams of old, they were different, yet were the same. / The seven ears of corn and cattle was a WARNING in the visions, which came.
Beautifully ugly, like good and evil together can never be. / Like Christ and the Man of Sin are opposite; not the same, as you can clearly see.
In the time just ahead, for it is already taking place. / They are joining good and evil together, and seeing no wrong in their mistakes.
So, the vision I witnessed I’m sure was not just a dream. / Maybe that’s the real mystery of bellabuggery and paradoxical jeans.

Bellabuggery and Paradoxical Jeans

Think it not strange that the time is finally here, / That they call evil good and good evil without any fear.
There is a time coming, and it is a time just ahead, / That what you have witnessed, is what has been said.
One is a prophecy; yea both will come true. / Together, yes together, and this is what they’ll do.
When you see one, you’ll see the other, because they come from the heart. / Of one who shall come, from a place in the dark.
For unnatural cannot be natural, and lust cannot be love. / Just as higher is opposite of lower, or below is, from above.
“I am tired and weary of the world waxing worse. / So, when you understand this riddle, you will understand the curse.”
Here is a strange mystery, for they first came in a dream. / So, what in the world is bellabuggery, and paradoxical jeans?