Lighting The Way [revised] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

I can choose to remain outside the story in my own time
or give up the sharp corners and strong lines of iron-clad
reality, jump into the candy-floss of soft fantasy and soar
with characters in illusions they dream of escaping their
reality, a dream that answers all their current dilemmas -

They find themselves within a fairytale enacted on stage,
creative innovation grappled with, positive effects of an
insistence on individuality, renewal of old ideas fills the
protagonists with new fire as they present their creative
dreams, I begin to dream with them - a world where my

Fantasies come alive, songs I sing in my mind renew, I’m
electromagnetic energy resonating, freed to engage in any
thing that appeals, right now freedom to dream renews my
spirit, determines me to do my own thing while images
are shining in my imagination lighting the way…