Follow The Light [rev] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

A sad solo floats on by as the lonely soloist, haughtily
disdained by a strong Valkyrian mezzo-soprano who
just deals with slain heroes to be shuttled to the Feast
in the Sky with Ho-to-yo; sings: ‘Think of me - think of
me fondly when we've said goodbye' - a soft echo in
the empty stairwell where she's stumbling, distraught

Scorned as ingénue by the noble sisters of a cloister
where words are slaughtered in a menacing silence,
never a song is heard, she flees to hide from the con-
demning Abbess‘ eyes and from Sister Self-Justified
ignoring Christine into non-existence; their disregard
destroy faith and trust so she has to leave this place

Finding refuge in her Favourite Things, images from
Nanny McPhee & Tinker Bell Fairy Dell supply proof
that Good exists, although the arrows of disdain find
their mark, life is sad as spinning straw the only way
she can CANNOT endear her to the Holy See & she
leaves in a dream sheltering in her inner cathedral

Where cloister-ideas are just a virtual reality without
Valkyries, where Indra's pearls as mystical symbols
glimmer and glow, uniting light & sound in a joyous
new perspective within the understanding that dark-
ness is required as background to enable mankind
to find and follow the Light…