Imagination

“Everything you can imagine is real” – Pablo Picasso


So many books, movies, and paintings
                      have come up from it: this great force

that has sparked our life with beauty
                     and chaos. Books have described the way

we can and have become angels and demons 
                        at the same time, using it to destroy other

worlds that are too busy searching for peace.
                  Movies have awed and haunted us with 

images of technologies that seem to have arrived
                         too early for us; destruction has been our 

 hobby, since stone-age: only grooming and table
                   etiquette that has changed from that remote

period. Paintings have depicted pleasant
                     and horrid images of Man’s true life and

living: cave paintings are a good point to start
                   on, before looking at Da Vinci’s work of art.

 Like a child who thinks he controls the world
                               with a water-gun, we almost make the 

same kind of mistake, by using the force that has
                       brought us to where we are, in creating a

bigger gap than we need amongst ourselves,
                     creating a valley where ideas of science and

art fall, waiting for a Savior to save them;
       humanity as the vassal of art and science,
                                    becomes the Fallen.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2014



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Date: 5/20/2014 5:47:00 AM
Wow!! This is a brilliant write. The line" like a child who thinks he controls the world with a water gun" is amazing.
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Date: 5/20/2014 10:02:00 AM
Thanks for your applause Monterey! :-) Sad how many magazine poetry publishers turned it down, lol.
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