Bemused, Overjoyed Eyes [rev.] Poem by Margaret Alice Second

So - how does one go about getting Arthur
Findlay's Curse of Ignorance to be Africa's
prescribed book? Combining it with Neale
Donald Walsch's Tomorrow's God would be
ideal to teach ethics and integrity -

The God we construct ourselves is terrible,
a vengeful force keen to smite enemies after
fighting others everywhere we go, we need
to create a NEW God to represent our best
qualities - not our minds worst ideas

Africa is happily, cheerfully repeating all the
European Great War lessons learned, what
we need is a great social dictator to usurp
all power, build infrastructure creating jobs
for us all, after this Hitlerian social mission

He should be removed by a coup, his great
social reforms retained while a new system
of values and ethics is taught in all Africa's
schools - what a great fantasy this is, just
like the stream of advice for new ways to

Organise South Africa that appears weekly
in Sunday newspapers - we all dream and
make changes in the mind's eye; of virtual
realities being manifested in infinite worlds
as life splits at the trousers of time - I love

The reality in which I live where dreaming
removes a cynic's weariness & scientists
delight in life as chaotic probabilities, and
it lies in OUR hands to create a new path
for life stretched out to eternity in front of

Our bemused, excited, overjoyed eyes…

[14 November 2014]