Family: Opposites In Synergy Poem by Margaret Alice

I like the idea of your doing shooting practice and meeting
world-class Springbok athletes and liaising with executives,
but most of all, I like the fact that you don’t drag me along;
in the past I fell asleep or ran off to join the catering team

The trip to a wild-life farm sounds good and so do your friends;
but I wouldn’t know what to say – you discussed photography
and hunting trips and overseas visits to Wimbledon and see the
Grand Prix and go diving in Mauritius and the Maldives

Whereas I would have visited Haworth – the rectory where my
heroine lived, Charlotte Bronte; I prefer to talk about Graham
Hancock and the Theory of life from the Pleiades, the search
for Atlantis and ESP, Elizabeth Klarer and Akon’s planet

I wouldn’t fit your discussion of athletes winning the Comrades;
you had a great evening and I’m glad; I would have talked about
quantum physics and truth in the tarot; interstellar travel and anti-
gravity, life after death and myths reflecting earth’s prehistory, as

well as the effect of precession on our view of the constellations;
you are happy and thrilled today because of your four accidents
and your renown for survival; the executives and springbok hero
enjoyed your company; I’m glad you had fun at that obligatory

function – and still enjoyed coming home to the kids and me,
playing with music and poetry – together we have a balance
between your view of clear-cut reality and my dreamy visions,
a fairytale fantasy in process of creation by opposites in synergy!