Make My Vision Come True Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Dreaming of cascading white lace covering
the bedroom's glass door, blindingly white
Dutch lace covering the dark wood bookcase,
also visualising the coarse-grained cupboards
painted alpine white to create an illusion of
space in this small room - then

Reality unfolds, cascading lace actually is too
demure, just a few humble folds without the
foaming effect seen in my mind's eye, the white
Dutch lace is reticent too, does not show the
phosphorous glow as visualised, the old duvet
looks shabbier than ever - I know

It has to go, a vibrant new one should take its place
but in what colour, what would please Carine, what
kind of design, and most important of all - how to
convince my beloved to spend money on her room
to make my vision of Carine delighted - come true?