To Ray Bradbury April 2015 Poem by Mary Angela Douglas

her eyes are drawn away from the canvas
to the climbing starwheels in the skies
I can't help it she'll reply as in a dream

to the teacher reprimanding her
your thoughts would wander too
if you saw them there

it's difficult to be stared at when you're
wide awake in another world.
you won't get used to it

no matter how far down the road you go
there'll always be someone, something
knowing you're thinking wrong

I'm not thinking at all you'll laugh inside
and know that soon the starwheels
will arrive and take you home

to the planet where dreaming is
not suspect!

mary angela douglas 28 april 2015