Never Strikes Twice

Never Strikes Twice

No, came the reply quick and fast, like lightning on a hill,
Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.
So this was not lightning I reasoned,
She had struck there before.

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Once in a high and lonely place,
Where angels in sandals feared to tread,
The lightning first struck twice,
And was firmly forbidden from doing so again.

The proper authorities were questioned,
And the appropriate forms were filled,
Why was lightning, in the same place,
Never allowed to strike twice?

The rhythm, the rhyme, the stone paper slime,
They answered, seeking the time on the edge,
There will come a moment, a frame of space tangent,
Once more, angels will fear to tread.

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No, came the reply quick and fast, like lightning on a hill,
Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.
So this was not lightning I reasoned,
She had struck there before.

-Mayank Daswani.