Imagine a World

 

Imagine a world — we’ve all heard those words,

and some imagine themselves, only better.

Some conjure visions of life with pet

dinosaurs, flocks of gentle dragons, herds

of unicorns. Some imagine the smell

of burning flesh, maybe their own, while some

build a wall of certainty from a jumble

of bunk, whatever the TV tells

them. Some seldom imagine anything

at all. Some claim that night is day,

right is wrong, topsy is turvy, the pen

is just another sword. Some don’t know how

to imagine, but wish they could. Some say:

Imagine the world we live in right now.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Dummerston, Vermont

June 2022

 

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