Wizardry
I am an excitable dreamer
so much like
an antelope
leaping through visions
like tall jungle grass
with eyes and heart
wide open
I am a child
who wants all her dreams
to come true
I want magic
and wonders
and secret doors
to everywhere
but I am a grown child
who has to know
that reality
is not so obliging
that jungle grass
has limits
and razor edges
and tangles underfoot
and that dreams
must be stirred
like a pudding
I am an excitable child
who really wants her dreams
but reality
does no favors
until I create it
