Flame Ignited In My Mind Poem by Margaret Alice

Lived without ideals and dreams
till the age of nine, then discovered
Planet Serfontein and the elevating
effect of dreams sublime, for the first
time came across a description of noble love

Since then I have never been alone again,
the flame that was ignited in my mind might
wax and wane, but never goes completely out,
I keep it alive by reading the same books, re-
turning to my source text from time to time, re-
maining true to my first ideal after all these years

Planning to hold on tight while awareness lasts –
which might very well be for eternity – and should
I get the chance to grow in love and wisdom, I shall
try to apply all the ideals I have nurtured in my mind;
contrary to everything I have been taught and told in
literature, philosophy, psychology and history

That when people grow up experience kills their dreams
and visions and the only rational way is to give up everything
and conform to the rest of humanity – I keep my original ideas
alive by rethinking them, found confirmation in spiritual literature,
ancient and modern, experienced the suffocation of religion, now
I know that success is never giving up – I’m so glad

I found my dream for myself when I was nine – not having it
forced on me, having been on a quest for meaning for nine
lonely nihilistic years, without God and love, finding it for my-
self and infusing it with life, it is more precious to me than life
itself, more beautiful and powerful than the fame and wealth
deemed desirable by modern man…