Consciousness Creating Dreams Poem by Margaret Alice

Read my Bible in high school several times
through as our headmistress told us to do
sighing in despair as I read, wondering why
I felt so alone and unloved in my mind - no
amount of doing my duty, no hard work and
sacrifice brought me nearer to God - I kept
reading through the years, looking for help
in tears, abandoning hope and ideals

Until discovering how the Bible was chopped
and changed through the ages - devised to
convey humanity’s highest dreams, to control
people’s lives - how delightful; consciousness
creating dreams of itself, recording visions of
self-improvement in religious books, showing
sociological development and increasing
awareness of abstract ideals

By putting national traditions aside, knowing that
love is everywhere like stars in the sky, but con-
ditioned by contracts and limited by jealousy -
while righteousness is just a farce - I distilled
lovely ideals for myself, dreaming of wisdom
as the highest good, the difference between
religion and the real spiritual life...