Confidence In Honour, Loyalty Poem by Margaret Alice

Read “Candy Floss” by Rumer Godden,
magical objects ending existential fears,
I don’t read realistic tales, living in reality
I make up my own mind, not interested
in seeing how negative attitudes distort
perception and experience

Seeking ideals to strive for, preferring the
creation of beauty, harmonic guidelines as
followed by sculptors, painters and cosmo-
logists; finding study of history a waste,
being rewritten from the viewpoints of
victors all the time

Words are tools to manipulate feelings, literary
realism is only gossip as presented by talented
storytellers, screening all words as carefully as
friends, respecting all people, but putting my
confidence in honour and loyalty only, self-
interest and exploitation -

whether found in people or books - offer no support
when we are in need, words that don’t leave a gem
of beauty in my mind are empty, false words burn a
hole in my heart; never accept flattery and promises
from strangers - to protect both them
and yourself…