a dream in one act

poems

 

Imagination

 

           Close

your eyes to the world.  See darkness,

speckled with white dots.  (Remember

the constellations, the night sky I

find so beautiful.)

           Look

around in the dark.  Find the tree

(the one I love to climb), the one that

reaches high up off the ground to a

point where vertigo kills (I hate heights).

           Walk

in your imagination towards it.  Read

the engraving on the coarse bark:

a heart with two initials (Do people

think that shows their undying love?)

Study the limbs of the tree.

           Climb

the tree, up towards the heavens (a

place I happen to believe is there only

in your mind's eye.)  Up and up you

go, past the squirrels, the birds, that

giant bee's nest I want so much to

knock down.

           Jump

from the top of the tree, outwards,

into the sky, falling downwards, towards

the ground.  (Like the time I fell

from that tree and knocked myself

unconscious.)

           Fly

with your mind, up away from

the ground, towards those stars.  Larger

and larger they grow, closer and closer

you get.  (You are now the astronaut

I used to dream of being.)

           Land

on the green and blue planet before you.

You've landed on my world.  My Utopia,

peaceful forever.  Never grow old, never

die, live immortally and happily.

           Here you'll find me.

 

Nov 19, 1999; Dec 7, 2001

 

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