2010/07/10 Creating Visions Poem by Margaret Alice

I read “Who Walk Alone – A Consideration Of The
Single Life” by mission author Margaret Evening -
recognising myself in what she wrote, have been
caught in all the snares she describes

Human life requires strict discipline, has to be based
on mathematical equations, the way she delineates
ethical situations - I never mastered numbers and
sums, therefore my relationship ratio’s

Are a complete mess, the story of most others also
people hide this fact from themselves, a few great
poets managed to describe the complete despair
of our emotional entanglements

When we are born we are taught to fight the current
of every instinct, need, emotion and feeling, we are
taught the world is scarcity and lack of love, hatred
and judgment from above - that this is

A truly malevolent universe - but the only sad aspects are
civilisation and false interpretation - when we are born
people put our hands on a hot stove to teach us the
world is bad and without love

Quite unaware that THEY are the cause, oblivious to the
fact that they perpetuate the myth themselves, the pain
we feel is the legacy of society as it is, the loneliness
and isolation, impossible relations

Orchestrated by the powers that be, life is not a natural
situation, the laws we create prevent all natural joy
the kind of jobs we devise and the regulations to
control everyone, killing inspiration

Lead to the cynical materialism spiritual teachers lament
and New Age Guru’s inveigh against - people are born
good, then taught to interpret the world as bad by
others who convey their own failures

Making sure we repeat their mistakes and misconceptions
that no mental progress takes place; the world only has
the meaning we assign, we inherit the fatalism and
despair of our forbears

Childish illusions are just chimera, all is emptiness under
the mists of dreams, yet illusion and mystery enable me
to escape pain - like others do through wealth, success
fame and appearance

I create fictitious characters to experience difficult situations
solving life’s equations under various conditions, no friend
shares my ideas; dreams and miracles inspire me
although they are impossible

In reality, the three-dimensional world is limited, but we can
keep ideas about alternative universes and probabilities
alive, based on scientific research in quantum physics
and cosmological discoveries

Though being human means being brainwashed and mean
selfish and limited, judgmental and self-righteous; trying to
be spiritual does not help very much, we are faulty
human beings with messed-up brains

Living in limited human bodies, emotions chemically determined
ideals unreachable - the only recourse is keeping fantasies
alive, creating visions of magnificent realities…

“Who Walk Alone” by Margaret Evening
Hodder and Stoughton,1974