By Book or Look


Life is a journey
we learn from
to possibly enjoy
with plans, dreams, and hopes
in privacy of minds
as ambition

Learning
frees us
to liberty
from chains
of ignorance
and repeating mistakes
that would enslave us
to the dark

Possibly we can enjoy
better times
and better lives
through fashioning glasses
for minds eye to view with
the problems of our world
and problems of our own
bringing inscrutable
to view

Plans, dreams, and hopes
take some vision
and imagination
For what today is present
someone dreamed up yesterday
for tomorrows reality.
There's someone to thank
for every situation,
and presumably to blame.

Privacy of minds
speculate
the wildest things
Ideas can swim
and flipper
to the surface
in the strangest ways
with their own vision
of the world,
some skittish
of approach
and yet others
downright mean.

Ambition
of fixed focus
knows not flipped switches
of digital machines
or computergoggery.
In wave theory
we swim ashore
beaches where we'd
stake tents,
and in waves
light washes over us
in patterns made
by overhanging trees.

If you'd be free
from chains,
use minds eye view
of tomorrows reality
with your own vision
and swim ashore.