A Magnet To Attract Wonders Poem by Louise Tredoux

A Magnet To Attract Wonders

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It is difficult to look at broken dreams, painful to
look at the broken pieces buried deeply, a vision
that was destroyed, never came true for the me
that I am - though it could possibly be happening
in a parallel universe – to look at the hopes I
cherished and the sand castles I built while still
believing the new avenue was open to me; only
to find afterwards that reality had no room for
what I had defined as my cherished dream -

I can’t pick through the shattered pieces of my
broken dream; the sharp, jagged edges cutting
my skin and making me ache all over again; I do
not contemplate the sadness of the fragile dream
that shattered into dangerous fragments; I refuse
to grieve over the dream I lost, but expect some-
thing better instead; keeping my eye on the new
horizon I’ve lately discovered and construct
delightful new visions, while clinging to

Every beautiful thing seen, heard or encountered,
leaving reality to live in a fantasy that fills my eyes
with happiness and gives me hope that the new
dream falls outside the scope of danger and threat;
a fabulous new theory that can’t be attacked by
detractors since it has not been verbalized or pre-
sented for malevolent analysis; but is only used
secretly as a magnet to attract the wonders
I’ve visualized!

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