Imagination’s Reality

Where lurks our alter-ego,
sometimes our only friend,
insistent pariah to some,
outcast of inanity to others.

When does its knock most often come?

For some, as nocturnal quiet succumbs to chaotic sleep.

For others, when myriad subway riders turn away.

Still others find its gentle persuasion while transfixed upon a snowflake.

How quickly it enters,
ever patient for mind-tumblers to unlock,
knowing combinations might be infinite,
preventing access to one's very personal universe.

How carefully society installs our fire-walls,
bent on maintaining the status quo,
afraid imagined alternatives might beckon
their own hackers-in-waiting.

But try as we might,
Echosis rests not at the oasis,
even as fear and trepidation stand ready beyond,
unaware we are all creative.

So persists our irrepressible world of imagination,
knowing beyond our doubts that time is there for us,
if only we will awaken and dream… beyond today’s reality.