One Long Sigh (Cor.) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Do I have ability to imagine what I want - First thing
is I want freedom to become my alternative self, the
inner person who has been subjected by the timid spirit
who only wants to read all day long, I want to break out
of my shell and meet people who share my interests –
poetry, quantum physics – interact with kindred spirits

Who read about alternative science, new theories about
Astrogenetics and the true nature of the sun as centre
of the solar system, I wish to be called upon to defend
my intellectual conclusions about apartheid and the
evils of racial discrimination spread like a disease
under false pretences while engendering the suicide

Of a nation too preoccupied and blind to see their own
demise as imminent, don’t know how I as recluse can
meet others - it is a goal to be achieved to also help
my son who loves poetry but doesn’t have the ability
to make friends on his own, just like his bookworm
mom – without offending his reclusive father whose

Only repose is in his quiet crocodile castle where he
as Lord can rest from the clamouring of his subjects
at work, flee from the games HR is forcing upon him
and his team – the universe will have to compromise
all these wishes in one long sigh of contentment as
everyone gets what they want without my having to

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[27 February 2014]