Another Visionary Poem by Margaret Alice

Attitude creates experience, joy and suffering
are created by focusing, freedom is choosing
to experience only those things we find
appealing

We cannot choose which things will appeal
to us, we learn by experience what feels
as natural as breathing, other things
always remain unreal

The powerful impose their ideas on nature
and ethics on others, forcing all to become
dissidents to protect being unique,
freedom is a prerequisite

To discover the dictates of our own nature, we
live on islands, aggressors and victims being
together, dreamers splashing love around,
some creating problems

To enjoy their happy misery, visionaries follow
the creative urge burning in them, breaking
away from all prescription to do something
new, when relinquishing power

We cannot imagine how a visionary came into
being: whenever anybody opens to freedom,
throwing off the manacles of expectation
and local tradition

Another visionary comes into being…