What Is And What Will Be Poem by Margaret Alice

Visit to the hairdresser done, plain hairstyle
to blend with the crowd, to feel non-descript
and confident, not self-conscious at all, not
standing out amongst the conventional as
negligent, the style will do very well, middle-
class camouflage, no more imitating Conan
The Barbarian, no more resembling Attila the
Hun, just an ordinary citizen whose closed
face doesn’t give anything away, the visions
I’ll take out of reality and confide them to paper
where they belong; when the smallness of reality
smothers me I shall construct dreams as before;
but no pulling dreams back into the sensory world,
no more living a fantasy to make reality bearable,
a sharper distinction between what is and what will
be one day will confer the ability to derive more
benefit from today, visions of a new, spiritual world
safely kept within my mind’s eye, looking for signs
of its speedy arrival, instead of living in a parallel
universe, in the future we shall travel and converse
with fellow dreamers, until then a sharper distinction
will make it possible to accomplish more
in a practical way….